60 Minutes pure aviation, today with the best special liveries I have ever seen. The Airbus A380 in the special turtle livery is definitly the star of this video. Three years ago I drove almost 400km to Hamburg Finkenwerder to film the first test flight of this stunning looking orange turtle A380. The aircraft performed a two hour test flight near Hamburg and returned to the airport afterwards. In total All Nippon Airways has three A380` s and all of them are mainly operating between Japan and Hawai. The sea turtle "Honu" is the most commonly encountered sea turtle species in Hawai and that` s the reason why All Nippon decided to paint the three A380` s in a special turtle livery.
I also included other special liveries in this video, including the Airbus Beluga which I also filmed at Hamburg Finkenwerder. The unique looking aircraft usually flies between airbus factories in europe to transport new airplane parts to the places where they have to be. The aircraft` s nickname "Beluga Whale" has been painted on the belly of the aircraft and the livery now resembles a beluga whale.
Also note the stunning looking Boeing 747 of National Airlines which has a red B747 in its fleet to celebrate the anniversary of the airline. National exists since 25 years and they started operating with a fleet of Doulgas Dc-8`s. I also managed to take pictures of their DC-8s at Liege and Luxemburg back in the days but sadly I haven` t started making videos back then.
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