Continuing my occasional look at the building and painting of first British Airways Airbus A380 here are some pictures of the first fully painted aircraft fresh out of the paint shop.

I must admit that I’ve always found the A380 a little ugly and not as streamlined and beautiful as the Boeing 747. But this paint job – perhaps it’s the blue belly – certainly improves the super jumbo’s looks.

Airbus will deliver this A380 to BA in July. Then we can look forward to all the cabin crew training flights. I wonder whether we will see it on the Edinburgh Shuttle run?

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