Qantas A380 Flyby
 

A Qantas A380 will be performing a flyby of the citys cathedral on tuesday for Nancy Bird Waltons Funeral at about midday i believe. Fitting tribute to a fantastic person!

Thanks for the heads-up Lachlan!

Great to see Qantas giving their own final tribute to Nancy Bird-Walton, should be a special sight seeing the A380 over the harbour and city again. Looks looks Tuesday's shaping up to a special day for QF. First this midday fly-over, and then the departure of their final 747-300 Classic at 7.00pm.

I'll endeavour to try and catch both aircraft.

Is the 747-300 leaving from Sydney??

Is VH-OQA doing the flyby?

Would make sense for it to do so.

VH-OQA is "Nancy Bird Walton" is it not? I'd imagine that would be the one unless it's on the other side of the world.

Mick

OQA operated QF31 today so should be back on Monday evening; just in time!!

A very fitting rememberance of this fine Lady indeed, hope it all goes well weather wise and a sad farewell, but I am sure she will look down from the heavens above and thank us for the tribute!
Farewell Nancy, never to be forgotten. Rest In Peace.

I just saw this article which says her funeral is to be on Wednesday. Is the fly by still scheduled to coincide with the funeral?

Any further updates on this fly-by?.. because as Gareth pointed out, her state funeral will be on Wednesday. I haven't been able to find any news of a fly-by on the net, but it may be internal to QF only.

Please provide any updates as I'm keen on being in the city to see the fly-by. :)