Did the A380 land at Death Row?

[brewnog]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/airlines/story/0,,1778038,00.html

Yessss!

 

[hypatia]

I would of went out to see that! Very cool.

 

[Anttech]

Go on Airbus :) I am happy and sad all at the same time... The amount of polution that thing must cause... But its an engineering marvel

 

[brewnog]

Go on Airbus :) I am happy and sad all at the same time... The amount of polution that thing must cause... But its an engineering marvel

Less per seat than a jumbo! But yes, it's a lot. I just get a nice warm fuzzy feeling when I think that it's British manufacturing which is keeping the thing in the sky, it makes me feel proud like I probably would have felt 60 odd years ago seeing Spitfires rolled out.

 

[Cyrus]

Barf, please, NEVER compare this big flying school bus to a spitfire EVER again!

Boeing's are much nicer airplanes...USA USA!

Where is Fred, let's chuck something at these ugly airbus' :grumpy:

 

[russ_watters]

Go on Airbus :) I am happy and sad all at the same time... The amount of polution that thing must cause... But its an engineering marvel

Bigger is virtually always more efficient per passenger-mile than smaller.

 

[Astronuc]

I saw the video. It rolled a little. I imagine a slightly high cg makes is bit more unsteady. I imagine it will have problems in cross-winds.

 

[russ_watters]

I would have thought a little dihedral, or better yet, good fly-by-wire would be able to take care of that.

 

[Astronuc]

They may have some fine tuning to do. Also, there is a point where the pilot can take manual control, IIRC.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

This plane is so big that it will actually be landing in London while it's still taking off in Paris.

Amazing.

 

[wolram]

Barf, please, NEVER compare this big flying school bus to a spitfire EVER again!

Boeing's are much nicer airplanes...USA USA!

Where is Fred, let's chuck something at these ugly airbus' :grumpy:

Ooooo, green as crab apples first we have the fastest now
the biggest, seem boing has to do some catch up :rofl:

 

[FredGarvin]

Ooooo, green as crab apples first we have the fastest now
the biggest, seem boing has to do some catch up :rofl:

You had the first one too...the Comet...but that had an annoying tendency to crash. Of course, there's nothing that you guys asking for help from the French won't cure!:tongue2:

You Brits are OK in my book. My company got into the civilian market with Rolls' help.

That monstrosity will need a 100 knot cross wind before it gets pushed around. It's probably smooth as silk riding on that thing.

 

[wolram]

You had the first one too...the Comet...but that had an annoying tendency to crash. Of course, there's nothing that you guys asking for help from the French won't cure!:tongue2:

You Brits are OK in my book. My company got into the civilian market with Rolls' help.

That monstrosity will need a 100 knot cross wind before it gets pushed around. It's probably smooth as silk riding on that thing.

You are a good in my book Fred,

 

[Cyrus]

Fred, you are a sellout to the American blue collar worker.


For shame.

Did you forget that we invented the airplane?

 

[Rach3]

Did you forget that we invented the airplane?

Nah, you just improved on a design by a certain Italian.

 

[Cyrus]

Um, No.


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[Ivan Seeking]

Ooooo, green as crab apples first we have the fastest now
the biggest, seem boing has to do some catch up :rofl:

Do you reeeeeeally want to talk about the SST?

 

[scott1]

Nah, you just improved on a design by a certain Italian.

Yes he never told anyone so it doesn't count.
(How could someone make that many revoltiznary inventions and never tell anyone )

 

[FredGarvin]

I'm no sellout. I do believe in credit where credit is due. I happen to owe a lot to a certain Mr. Whittle, who was another Brit.

But I do draw the line at the French.

I don't need to bring up things like the 747, SR-71, the x series planes, etc...

 

[moose]

My dad was there to see it O_O