Quote Originally Posted by griffin View Post
That was the one Demonac and I took from Melbourne to LA in 2009, for BotCon. I was just so amazed at how massive it was, and it's engines, from being up so close to it. You're sitting in it as it runs down the runway, wondering how is this massive beast able to get off the ground... and yet it does.
The aircraft in the photo looks like VH-OQA ('Nancy-Bird Walton'). The aircraft is notable as a result of an uncontained engine failure over Indonesia in November 2010 during a London to Sydney flight ('QF-32').