These photos were
taken at Tullamarine Airport in Melbourne Victoria, Australia. The Airbus A380
visited Australia as part of QANTAS's 85th birthday celebrations. In honour
of the event the aircraft had QANTAS the spirit of Australia painted on the
fuselage sides and had the QANTAS kangaroo emblem painted on each engine nacelle
as well as having the winglets painted red, basically the scheme that it will
carry when ot goes into service with QANTAS in 2007. The only difference to
what will be the service schem is the tail which, when in service, will be painted
red with the kangaroo in whote. While the aircraft was in Brisbane John
Travolta,
who has the role of QANTAS's international ambassador, had the privelege of
being allowed to take the controls of the Airbus for a circuit around Brisbane.
While not technically a
walkaround I thought these photos may be of interest to fellow ARCers.