Notre Dame de Fourvière basilica
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007This is Notre Dame de Fourvière basilica in Lyon, France. Built between 1872 and 1896 it’s known for its unusual design drawing from a variety of architectural influences.
Contributed by Dan.
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Jacques Cousteau’s Calypso
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007Calypso is the name of a ship that Jacques-Yves Cousteau, one of the most important researchers in oceanography, equipped as a mobile laboratory for field research.
A barge accidentally rammed Calypso and sank her in 1996. She was raised, and eventually towed to the basin of the Maritime Museum of La Rochelle in 1998, where she was intended to be an exhibit. A long series of legal and other delays kept any restoration work from begining. As of the end of 2006, most of the equipment has been removed from her upper decks, and she sits open to the elements. It is unclear as to what will become of this historic vessel. [wikipedia]
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Airbus A380 SuperJumbo Airliner
Thursday, January 25th, 2007The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, four-engined airliner manufactured by EADS (Airbus S.A.S.) It first flew on April 27, 2005 from Toulouse, France. Commercial flights are scheduled to begin in 2007 after some lengthy delays.
The A380’s upper deck extends along the entire length of the fuselage. This allows for a spacious cabin with 50% more floor space than the next largest airliner, the Boeing 747-400, and provides seating for 555 people in standard three-class economy class configuration, or up to 853 people in full economy class configuration. [wikipedia]
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A300-600ST Airbus Beluga
Thursday, January 25th, 2007Similar to the American Super guppy.
Featuring the most voluminous cargo hold of any civil or military aircraft flying today, the Airbus Beluga offers a unique way to transport oversized air cargo.
The Beluga (also known as the A300-600ST Super Transporter) was developed to carry complete sections of Airbus aircraft from different production sites around Europe to the final assembly lines in Toulouse or Hamburg. Its main-deck cargo volume is greater than the C5 Galaxy, the An-124 or the C-17 airlifters.
Contributed by Kevin.
New European Bird’s Eye Coverage Added
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007Window Local Live has just added a large new batch of European bird’s eye coverage. Get busy searching and submitting your new posts!!
| France Aix-En-Provence Antibes Arles Avignon Beziers Cannes Chambery Clermont Ferrand La Rochelle Lyon Marseille Monte Carlo Montpellier Nice Nimes Perpignan Poitiers Saint-Etienne Toulouse Bordeaux Chateauroux Netherlands Breda Groningen Kerkade Masstrict Nijmegen Oss Venlo ZwolleSpain Lleida Tarragona ToledoNorway Drammen |
Italy Imola Sassari Torino Vercelli Ancona Arezzo Bari Benevento Bergamo Brindisi Campobasso Catania Catanzaro Chieti Cosenza Cremona Crotone Ferrara Forli Grosseto Latina Lecce Livorno Lodi Mantova Massa-Carrara Padova Palermo Parma Pavia Perugia Pesaro Pescara Piacenza Pistoia Prato Ravenna Reggio Calabria Reggio Emilia Rimini Rovigo Salerno Taranto Terni Treviso Viterbo Ascoli Piceno Brescia Foggia Lucca Modena Pordenone Teramo Udine Vicenza Carpi Faenza Mestre Milan Roma Guidonia Tivoli Milano Neighbouring Alessandria Asti Cesena Chioggia Fano Genova Matera Moncalieri Monza Rivoli Savona Trento Viareggio Vigevano |
Germany Aalen Aschaaffenburg Augsburg Baden-Baden Bamberg Bayreuth Binz Brandenburg Chemnitz Cottbus Dessau Dresden Erfurt Erlangen Freiburg im Breisgau Gera Geoppingen Gorelitz Halle Hanau Heilbronn Ingolstadt Jena Karslruhe Kempten (Allgaeu) Konstanz Landshut Leipzig Lubeck Ludwigsburg Magdeburg Mannheim Munchen Neumeunster Nurenburg and Fuerth Offenburg Pforzheim Plauen Potsdam Reutlingen Rosenheim Rostock Saarbruecken Sassnitz Schwaebisch Gmuend Sindlefingen Speyer Straslund Stuttgart Trier Teubingen Ulm Villingen-Schwenningen Waiblingen Weimar Wolfsburg Wuerzburg |