Fleet Expansion 3

As most of you would know by now that i have a knack for collecting plane models. Heck, i;d have a knack for anything related to planes...lol.. Anyway, i've been down in my hometown ipoh for the past 1 week and damn, every day is more boring than the day earlier. Any more time here and i might get depressed...lol. And so with all that boredom in me, i decided to take out all my plane models which were kept in the drawers for months as i had no place to display them..

And so...after the cleaning of dust cakes from the planes, i decided to ride on down to my local dealer in a daily night market. Why night market you ask?.. Well for one, this night market is the only place where i can find the planes i want in the entire ipoh for and extraordinary price ;). Also, i noticed his planes to be well done and there is alot of attention paid to details as well. No paint flaws or livery mistakes. Anyway, my total plane count till today would be 15 +1 in my uni. Hoping to reach 50 by end of this year...Jah bless!

Well i guess thats all i have for today guys.... as always here are some pics to indulge in and once again, thank you for wasting your time :)

Air Asia Airbus a320-200 "Kampung Boy"

Air China Boeing 737-800 "Beijing 2008"

EgyptAir Boeing 737-800

Vietnam Airlines Boeing 787-8

Boeing 747-400 House Livery

American Airlines Boeing 777-200ER

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Boeing 737-800

Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-433

Lufthansa Airbus A380-800

United Parcel Services Boeing 747-400 Cargo

Air New Zealand Boeing 747-400 "Blue Eagle"

Malaysia Airlines Airbus A330-300

Mikoyan-Guverich Mig-29

McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle

McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom

The Whole Collection

Common yet uncommon..

Plane liveries don’t really catch our eye. Its not something that makes us awe, maybe because of its plain and simple appearance. Its also cheaper to keep things simple and amount of colours to a minimum. After all, a plane does require a few hundred litres of paint to be painted fully although the paint coating is less than 3 millimeters thick.

But there are some planes out there that makes you say wow because of their paintwork. These liveries range from cartoon characters being painted to the plane to special themes or events. here are some famous ones that are bound to make you admire they’re paintwork…

Japan Airlines’ (JAL) Disney's livery… to promote Disneyland in Tokyo, Japan.

Another Disney themed JAL plane. Both are 747-400s.

An Alaskan airline 737-800 with yet another Disney livery.

Another Alaskan airline 737-800, but this time, themed with the “make a wish” theme which includes the famous blue genie from the cartoon Aladdin.

Western Pacific’s Boeing 737-400 with the Simpson's livery.

A McDonnell Douglas MD-83 with the official FIFA 2010 livery.

A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER with the Freedom Of Space livery. Short name, Heliconia. Regarded as one of the most beautiful plane out there.

A Malaysian Airline Boeing 747-400 with the hibiscus livery.

A continental Boeing 777-200ER with the Peter Max livery. This livery is meant to commemorate Peter Max for his iconic style during the 60s.

An Etihad Airways Airbus A340-600 with the 2009 F1 Abu Dhabi theme.

An Air Asia Airbus A340-300 with its Oakland Raiders theme.

So there you have it. Beautiful aren’t they?

Fleet expansion

As you all are aware of, i’m a self proclaimed plane enthusiast. And one of my hobbies, besides fishing, includes collecting plane models, be it military, civilian, vintage, model kits or even helicopters. However for now i’ve just started collecting modern airlines or civilian aircrafts.

For now my fleet consists of 4 aircraft, 2 from kl and 2 from dubai. Anyhow, my plan is to expand the fleet to at least 10 aircraft by February. So for now i have a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines 737-800, a Virgin Atlantic 747-400, American airlines 777-200 and a Lufthansa a380-800.

The scale varies for all 4 models because i cant seem to get 2 planes of the same scale… Malaysians dont really seem to take interest in these kinda hobbies i suppose. Which makes me the odd one out…lol.

These planes are not only just scale models, but they are the exact replicas of the real thing. As usual, alot of attention is given to the details from the engine fans, flaps, spoilers to even the special livery for that particular plane.

Well nothing much here for me to blog about….so here are some pics as usual…

~Falcon~

The 737-800 in KLM Livery.

Britain's Virgin Atlantic 747-400

As usual, detail is the key to making the plane look perfect

American Airlines 777-200. This one is the GE-90 engine version.

Lufthansa Airbus a380-800. The biggest of its kind YET.

And of course its the details that makes all the difference

The whole collection

the 16 million dollar toy

firstly i’d like to apologize to all my readers who have been waiting for something new in my blog. Anyway…as u guys may already know….i got the air asia first stage interview which was basically a normal SPM standard and format written test.

I only had like…9 days to prepare for the test and so i got to work right away. 2 days were spent on actually finding my spm books and borrowing the ones i din have… sad i know. as soon as i got that settled. i neglected my form 6 and actually revised all my spm maths and physics frm the first till the very last chapter.

2 years of education cramped in my head in 9 days. And i wasnt surprise when my health wasn't fully 100% when i went for the test…and it got worst knowing i ad to go to LCCT to get lunch….one mineral water bottle and one hot dog made me take out rm 8.90…yes….8.90…hot dog was rm 6.50 and the mineral water was rm2.40….heart nearly failed but then again…no choice..haha… so diam diam makan and went back to the academy for the remaining 2 papers which were english and IQ.

all the papers went well and i was one of the first to finish,….good or bad?…go figure =D…anyway.. after i went out of the exam hall..i decided to loiter ard the academy as they had some pretty cool stuff to see. So i finally decided to go out the front door and catch some fresh air… and so i did.

after loitering outside the academy for a while, one guy comes up to me and asks if i had a lighter cause he’s couldnt work…and so i replied…”sorry sir, i don have a lighter as i do not smoke”… and he goes on saying “oh..its ok…hey arent you here for the air asia written test?”..and so my reaction was like..”yes…do u know about it"?”..and frm that we started talking and i soon found out that i was talking to a captain…lol….

most of my readers know that i’m an avid flight simmer and will talk abt planes for ages if given the chance..and so thats exactly wat i did with the captain…and he ends up telling me….follow me boy…i’ll give you a tour ard the academy..which was funny cause i had already told him that we have been given a tour ard the academy that morning…

he then took me straight into the most safeguarded area in the academy…the simulator training room…and honestly…for me… i saw heaven =D… and so he said..”u know much abt planes..wanna try a 737?”..and which idiot would refuse!! =D…so i was like yeah of course captain…and he took me in the simulator…and actually let me take off with it….a 16 million dollar machine in the hands of a guy who cant take care of a 2 ringgit phone casing…lol…

and so i tried it,….and it was so fkin awesome!!!…i’m lucky enough to have a recording of it…pls do not mind all the warning and alarms will ya?..thanks =)… and so i flew on all the 3 different simulators which were the boeing 737… the airbus a320 and the a330-300.

it was one heck of a day…i just expected it to be another normal examination day but hell no….just goes to show….always expect the unexpected

here are some pics and a video of my new no.1 love… =D

click here for the flight video

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~AniL RekhraJ~

17 JUNE 2008......

17th june.... started as a normal day.... .got up at 5.30..... went to school... slept in school.... studied.. (yes i really do study)... lol... .and just had fun... parents werent home though... so came back home.... blasted music...played dhol.... slept....did homework...and makaned... as usual.... but then i ranged my sis up and she told me the good new...she got accepted for nursing in IJN and i was truly happy for her =).....

and so we were all like.....now only anil is left...one is a doctor already...one's on d way to becomin a nurse...now one is left...and funny thing is...dat day...i din on the pc watsoever....was not in d mood i guess..... so realising dat...i on the pc....hoping that someone good will be on9..lol....and i checked my mail as usual...now thats where the similarity ended.... i got an email...which i will copy paste a part of it here.....


Dear All,

RE: CADET PILOT TRAINING SCHEME

Dear Mr./Miss,

Thank you for the interest shown in the above scheme. After having
scrutinized all the applications received we are glad to announce that
your name has been SHORT LISTED

We will be conducting the various stages of the selection process as
indicated below and you are advised to prepare yourself well for the
process. All the test papers will be in English and the pass mark in
each of the test will be 75%. You will be required to pass all the 4
test papers in one sitting. There will not be any re-sit or second
chance given. Please remember that we will select only the top ten.




DO I NEED TO SAY ANYTHING MORE???...I GOT IT MAN.....I FINALLY GOT IT!!!!!!..... dreams do come trueeee.... and now....the hard part...i've got 2 weeks to study spm physics maths and do a bunch of iq tests....damn...well gtg...gotta get studyin...till den... tc


AniL RekhraJ

tom clancy's HAWX

well as most of my readers would know, i'm kinda addicted to flight simulation games. i've been playing fs2004 for nearly 2 years now and i didnt really bother abt wat type of simulation was it...as long as i could take off...and land....it was good enough...however 6 months after playing i got bored...so i decided to look into a different type of flight simulator...which was called comback flight simulator (cfs)....however i din download it cause of the types of planes...all WW2 planes...lol...sorry not my type

then i came acros this game called LOCK ON....at that time it was pretty cool cause it involved modern warfare jets and all...problem was...it had very few planes and there were no freeware addons to download....so that was a pass as well...and so i continued takin off and landing in my fs2004... but recently thanks to to my bro.....i found an awesome game called HAWX by tom clancy....its d best action simulator cause it features awesome dogfights and all modern planes...and the planes range frm a mig 21 to a f22 raptor.... gameplay is awesome...and soon i'll be getting it...haha...damn streamyx...name ni broadband....download slower den regular dial up..lolx

the aircraft that flew ard the world without refuelling

voyager was its name...it was the first plane to fly around the world without refuelling.... the primary engineers of the plane were dick rutan and burt rutan... 2 brothers who own the rutan aircraft factory....anyway...this plane was made mostly frm fiber glass...carbon and kevlar...making it weigh ard 426 kgs when empty...even lighter than a normal family car!!...the aircraft actually started out as a sketch behind a napkin...and 6 years later it broke the record of longest flight ard the world...the plane was piloted by burt rutan and jeana yeager.....the took off at edward's air force base and headed for the equator....they flew at an average altitude of 11000 feet and with an average speed of just 196 km/h....it took them exactly 9 days, 3 minutes and 44 seconds frm taking off to touching down....the plane had super long wings to keep more fuel and it ran on a normal piston engine instead of using a jet engine....the plane had 2 propellers....1 on the front and the other on the rear...both propellers had their own individual engines...the back prop was used all the time and the front was used for additional power during take off or cruising through heavy winds...the plane flew a mind blowing 26 366 miles....and it still had a few gallons of fuel left after touchdown...the pilots took turn looking after the plane and 1 pilot could sleep only after 3 days....the voyager today sits at the national air and space museum in washington dc....truly an engineering marvel....

voyager in flight shortly after take off

the plane now sits in the national air and space museum in washington dc

the very first sketch of voyager behind a napkin

air crew's beds....

ever wondered where pilot sleep during the flight??...or maybe where do all the air crew disappears after sometime during the flight...well pilots and air crew normally have their sessionss...according to standard procedures, during long flight, pilots and air crew are constantly replaced by another badge after 4 hours...yes the plane takes off with 2 badges of cabin crews... but dun expect to see the pilots and flight attended comfortably sitting in the first class compartments...LOL....not allowed to...haha...they have their onw bunks and a small room like thingy just in front of the first class compartments.....anyway here are some pics of where pilots sleep.....

This is on board the airbus A340

These bunks are to be found on the air canada boeing 747-400

this one is from KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

another view of the KLM bunks

this is from a singapore airlines boeing 777

and this is a from a standard boeing 777

cool right??...and now for the most prestigious airlines of them all....



AIR ASIA!!!!!!........................................................

cool right??? :)