NorthstarBoy From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 1713 posts, RR: 1 Posted (5 years 10 months 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 2522 times:
I was looking at the names KLM uses for if's MD-11 fleet, all famous women, and while i recognized most, Audrey Hepburn, Florence Nightingale, Maria Callas to name a few, PH-KCA is named Amy Johnson, can anyone enlighten me as to who this person was?
Also, if Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes the first female president of the US, would KLM name an aircraft after her in recognition of that?
I could have elite status if I wanted it, but flying the same airline all the time is boring.
Quoting NorthstarBoy (Thread starter): Also, if Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes the first female president of the US, would KLM name an aircraft after her in recognition of that?
Nope. There will no MD11s in service at KLM at that time
VV701 From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2005, 6621 posts, RR: 17 Reply 2, posted (5 years 10 months 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 2503 times:
Amy Johnson was a British aviator. She was the first woman to fly solo from England (Croydon) to Australia (Darwin) taking 19 days in May 1930. Subsequently she broke various records including England-Japan (via Moscow) and London-Cape Town (twice).
She was killed in 1941 when the Airspeed Oxford she was flying from Blackpool to Oxford got lost in bad weather and eventually crashed into the Thames Estuary.
CV990 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 3, posted (5 years 10 months 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 2387 times:
Hi!
I really like the way KL name their planes...truly global and a great way to pay tribute to famous people around the world. I cannot forget that KL named a DC-8-63 with a famous portuguese navigator, Vasco da Gama., PH-DEH.
Petertenthije From Netherlands, joined Jul 2001, 3230 posts, RR: 13 Reply 4, posted (5 years 10 months 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 2369 times:
Quoting NorthstarBoy (Thread starter): Also, if Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes the first female president of the US, would KLM name an aircraft after her in recognition of that?
OceansWorld From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 7, posted (5 years 10 months 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 2331 times:
Quoting NorthstarBoy (Thread starter): Also, if Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes the first female president of the US, would KLM name an aircraft after her in recognition of that?
I don't think so firstly because all those women were dead when each aircraft received their names, and because those were great women in domains outside politic: art, science, social/humanitarian,...
And if KL was to name an aircraft after the first female as head of state/government, how about Angela Merkel ?
Quoting Jano (Reply 1): Nope. There will no MD11s in service at KLM at that time
You do realise that he only said aircraft, not MD-11, so the chance of this happening...
CV990 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 8, posted (5 years 10 months 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 2256 times:
Hi KL557!
I didn't knew that KL kept "our Vasco da Gama" in their fleet...very neat indeed! Unfortunately we don't see in LIS many 737 Classics anymore! But I can assure you that regarding PH-DEH every time we saw it here it was a great moment...specially because during those days ( KL had a flight in 1980 that served Paramaribo via a tech. stop at LIS with the good old DC-8-63!!! I saw all KL DC-8-63 fleet in LIS at that time!!! ) seeing PH-DEH was quite a nice moment.
Regards
VV701 From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2005, 6621 posts, RR: 17 Reply 10, posted (5 years 10 months 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 2151 times:
Quoting OceansWorld (Reply 7): And if KL was to name an aircraft after the first female as head of state/government, how about Angela Merkel ?
Or even Margaret Thatcher who beat Angela Merkel as head of government by more than a quarter of a century. But neither of them were the first female head of government. They were preceded by the Indian Prime Minister, Mrs Nehru, and she was preceded by the Prime Minister of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1'960, Mrs Srimavo Bandaranaike. Indeed Mrs Bandaranaike's daughter, Chandrika Kumaratunja, also became Prime Minister of Sri Lanka before Mrs Merkel became the German Chancellor. While Mrs Bandaranaike was the first female head of a democratic government she was preceded by many female heads of state including the British Queens Elizabeth I (died 1603) and Victoria (died 1901).
Levent From France, joined Sep 2004, 1718 posts, RR: 5 Reply 11, posted (5 years 10 months 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 2135 times:
I think it is a very nice custom of airlines to name their planes, something that many more should do IMHO.
KLM could be a bit more patriotic by naming aircraft after locations in the Netherlands, but I suppose that many of those places would be very difficult to pronounce by most people!
We could make a list of airlines that name their planes. I'll make a start with European airlines>
SK601 From Belgium, joined Jun 2005, 975 posts, RR: 4 Reply 15, posted (5 years 10 months 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 2040 times:
These were the names of KL's B747-200/300:
PH-BUA - Mississippi
PH-BUB - Danube
PH-BUC - Amazone
PH-BUD- Nile
PH-BUE- Rio de la Plata
PH-BUF - Rhine (lost in Tenerife crash)
PH-BUG - Orinoco
PH-BUH - Albert Plesman (currently KL's first A330 PH-AOA is named A.Plesman)
PH-BUI - Wilbur Wright
PH-BUK - Louis Bleriot
PH-BUL - Charles A. Lindbergh
PH-BUM - Sir Charles E Kingsford Smith
PH-BUN - Anthony HG Fokker
PH-BUO - Missouri
PH-BUP - Ganges
PH-BUR - Indus
PH-BUT - Admiral Richard E Byrd
PH-BUU - Sir Frank Whittle
PH-BUV - Sir Geoffrey De Haviland
PH-BUW - Leonardo da Vinci
NorthstarBoy From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 1713 posts, RR: 1 Reply 20, posted (5 years 10 months 5 days 5 hours ago) and read 1841 times:
thanks for all the great responses!
what i thought interesting was that here is this woman, Amy Johnson, who made many hazardous journeys all over the world, and yet she met her end on what seems like such a simple trip from one part of england to another
I could have elite status if I wanted it, but flying the same airline all the time is boring.
LHRBFSTrident From UK - Northern Ireland, joined Nov 2006, 628 posts, RR: 0 Reply 21, posted (5 years 10 months 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 1817 times:
Quoting VV701 (Reply 10): British Queens Elizabeth I (died 1603)
...and her half-sister Mary right before her...
Next up: LAX-LHR NZ002 Y SkyCouch! LHR-LAX NZ001 Y
Confused PAX looking that the plane, "Reolfsssaaahh what??" LoL
Heja Sverige!!
25 FlySSC: Golda Meir was the Prime Minister of Israel from March 1969 to April 1974. As such, she was the third women to become Head of State in the 20th Centu
26 FlySSC: Unfortunately, the name "Acropolis" is under the sticker ' KLM B777"
27 RootsAir: Then they could name an aircraft after Indria Gandhi Eva Peron Angel Merckel Michelle Bachelet Ellen Sirleaf....etc
28 YOWza: Maybe down the line. Certainly not while she's still alive. There are exceptions in each I believe. An we can not forget this KL bird, albeit with a
29 Viscount724: Interstingly, UA also named their 20 Caravelles (in service 1960-61 to 1970-72) for French cities, with the name shown in French, although UA had no
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