Spent the day yesterday at Heathrow as a guest of BA for their now annual Open Day but this year for the first time for general public/exec club members.
Literally an access all areas type day and the ability to have a nose about a wide selection of aircraft including Boeing 757, 777-300ER, 747-400, A319. A318, A380 test mule complete with kit and engineer test stations on the main deck! Oh and Concorde though she was shut up due to being full or balast.
Absolutely the best free day out i can remember in a very long time, my son was completely blown away having never set foot on a plane previously and being able to sit in on the flightdeck of a 777 and a 747 and talk to reps from Boeing about them. Even managed a nose about the hidden, crew rest deck at the back which was interesting too having always heard people above me in flight and thinking i was going loopy
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True hats off moment to British Airways, all the staff were fantastic and really looked after the kids especially but being able to get up close and personal with $200m of aircraft was amazing, especially having fluffed my cadetship years ago to pilot one
Pictures here http://s139.photobucket.com/albums/q...%203rd%202011/
Literally an access all areas type day and the ability to have a nose about a wide selection of aircraft including Boeing 757, 777-300ER, 747-400, A319. A318, A380 test mule complete with kit and engineer test stations on the main deck! Oh and Concorde though she was shut up due to being full or balast.
Absolutely the best free day out i can remember in a very long time, my son was completely blown away having never set foot on a plane previously and being able to sit in on the flightdeck of a 777 and a 747 and talk to reps from Boeing about them. Even managed a nose about the hidden, crew rest deck at the back which was interesting too having always heard people above me in flight and thinking i was going loopy
.True hats off moment to British Airways, all the staff were fantastic and really looked after the kids especially but being able to get up close and personal with $200m of aircraft was amazing, especially having fluffed my cadetship years ago to pilot one
Pictures here http://s139.photobucket.com/albums/q...%203rd%202011/
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