New Airbus A380

The new jumbo Airbus A380 super jumbo luxury jumbo airliner has been getting a lot of press lately.


One of the things that cracks me up about these articles is that people are still naming planes. Qantas' first A380 has been named [theage.com.au] after Australia's first female pilot Nancy-Bird Walton. To me, naming planes reminds me of a bygone era of the Enola Gay [wikipedia.org] and the Spirit of St. Louis [wikipedia.org] -- naming a plane these days seems very antiquated.

At least there are several worse names (or tributes) they could have chosen:

• Satan's Testicle (although this probably would be a great band name)
• Tokyo Rose
• Ticket to Hell
• Mata Hari
• Marie Antoinette
• Ethel Rosenberg
• The Titanic
• Eva Braun
• The Hindenburg
• Amy Fisher

Picture of Airbus A380 airliner from Telstar Logistics' Flickr photostream [flickr.com].