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Qantas A330-300 (A330-303 variant) VH-QPB, which is just in from the QFA20 route from Manila in the Philippines, can do post-apocalyptic just as well as Virgin can. Maybe better, in fact.
This came within a whisker of being nominated for my PAD for this day. In the end I gave it to a Qantas A380 instead.
VH-QPB was delivered to Qantas in December of 2003. It was originally named Freycinet Peninsula, a name which would generally elicit a response of "The Who In The What Now?", (The Freycinet Peninsula juts out from about half way down the east coast of Tasmania. It was named after a French navigator named Louis de Freycinet (1779-1841) who circumnavigated the world and published a map showing the full coastline of Australia in 1811.)
When the plane was reconfigured in 2015 it was renamed Tenant Creek, a town of about 3,000 in the centre of the Northern Territory. Between November and March it has an average temperature slightly higher than the turbofans of VH-QPB in cruise mode.
As of August 2022, it was still operating. Its most recent flight was... today, actually, being QF19 to where? Manila in the Philippines, again.
Full EXIF Info | |
Date/Time | 31-Jan-2015 06:26:11 |
Make | Olympus |
Model | E-M1 |
Flash Used | No |
Focal Length | 150 mm |
Exposure Time | 1/6400 sec |
Aperture | f/3.5 |
ISO Equivalent | 640 |
Exposure Bias | 0.00 |
White Balance | 0 |
Metering Mode | matrix (5) |
JPEG Quality | (5) |
Exposure Program | aperture priority (3) |
Focus Distance |
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