Posts Tagged ‘aircraft’

The train that flew from Melbourne to India

The Alstom factory at Dandenong has a long history of building trams and trains for the Melbourne public transport system, through predecessors Bombardier, Adtranz, ABB and Commonwealth Engineering. However they have also built rollingstock for the overseas market, such as these two Indian Railways WAP5 electric locomotives that left Australia onboard an Antonov An-124 heavy […]

What is the biggest aircraft to land at Essendon Airport?

Today Essendon Airport? is mainly used by business jets and light aircraft, but it was once Melbourne’s main international gateway. But what was the biggest aircraft to land there? Some history Until the 1960s Essendon Airport was Melbourne’s main airport, seeing a wide range of piston-powered airliners. Photo by Peter Hough, via Wikimedia Commons But […]