Smaug the Dragon flies with Air New Zealand

How cool is this! Smaug the Terrible, the dragon from the Hobbit movies, is now appearing on the side of aircraft. Air New Zealand, now calling themselves "The Airline of Middle Earth", showed off one of their new planes at LAX on Monday for the premiere of the new Hobbit movie.

It's a huge decal, 177 feet long, designed to show the true scale of the dragon. Read more here.