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Plane Names

By Raghavmodi @raghavmodi
Have you ever noticed that a number of airlines make it a habit to "name" their planes. Maybe it's all airlines, but I'm not sure.
Nevertheless I know KLM does and it's always fun finding out which famous personality/city/place (usually the names) you are going to fly in.
During my European trips I have flown in Florence Nightingale a few time and yesterday it was in a plane named Audrey Hepburn. Too exciting for a cinephile like me.
A little research tells me that all of McDonnell Douglas MD-11 planes in KLMs fleet are named after female pioneers from different fields of life. As it happens these are the planes used on my flight routes.
Unfortunately I do not have a photographs of the planes, but hopefully it is a nice little collection I can start by taking and documenting the trip with the plane I took, recognized by "her" name.


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