Today was the last day of the internship introductions at the KLM, tomorrow I'll start working. Monday and yesterday mainly consisted out of training courses, variating from apron safety to human factors. I also had to make two tests, to make sure I fully understanded the dangers at the airport. Both tests were passed succesfully.
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KLM Cityhopper, a division of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has a new aircraft in its fleet to replace the Fokker 100's. KLM placed an order of 10 ERJ-190 jets at the Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer.
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While searching for some aviation videos on the Internet, I recently discovered this video of a Boeing 747 landing on St.Maarten (Princess Juliana International) Airport (PJIA). Its runway has a total lenght of 7000 feet (2180 meter), which is pretty short for aircraft of this size. As a result these large aircraft have to make an extremely low approach, sometimes just 30 metres above the sun tanning people at the beach.
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Years ago Oscar Diös heard that there was an unused Boeing 747 built in 1976 at Arlanda Airport. This jumbo jet was used in the past by a Swedish airline called Transjet. He must have thought it was a wast not to use the airplane anymore, so he decided to turn it in a low-cost hotel. Building a hotel and getting cheap space is very difficult around an airport, but he managed to get permission from the authorities to 'build' his hotel close to the entrance of the airport.
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