A380 painted , many pictures

[stmoritzer]

Enjoy some pictures of the new A380
(didn't find anything doing a search in JW, so shouldn't be a repost)

http://www.flugzeugbilder.de/search4.cgi?stype=actype&srng=2&srch=Airbus%20A380-841

http://img109.exs.cx/img109/6125/11061642493bf.th.jpg (http://img109.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img109&image=11061642493bf.jpg)

[possessed_beaver]

damn that thing is TOTALY massive....

i cannot wait to see how many people british airways try and pack onto one of them
(anyone that has flowen british airways will know what im talking about)

[coombsie66]

Fuck me she's a bigg'un! There are many people in my Mech eng department having wet dreams about this plane. I must have been informed 50 times that the tail fin is 7 story's high and entirely composite bonded construction! :shock:

[Toronto]

can't wait for my first trip on one! I heard some airlines are going to casino's in them.

[TopGearNL]

Nice plane, but my favorite will always be first and only the jet air liner better, The Concorde :)
http://my.execpc.com/~culp/space/concorde.jpg

Still a nice plane, btw Boeing is going to build a new plane aswell however, it won't be very big, it is going to be rather small, but very fast, they think the future lies there, at speed :?

[ferrari550]

man that is sooo huge!!
i do not think there will be a gym, casino.... if there were, imagine the price of a ticket to go somehwere, lol
thanks for the link!!

[Toronto]

^^^ if anything a casino would bring down the price of a ticket!

[GT-R_R34]

i feel sorry for the crew that has to load and unload that plane when it goes into service

[CSedl87]

Whens the first scheduled test flight?

[FerrariFerrari]

Whens the first scheduled test flight?
The first test flight is scheduled for March 2005 and it is scheduled to enter
service with Singapore Airlines in March 2006. They may eventually build
both a stretched and shortened version named the A380-900 and A380-700
respectively.

[philios55]

Wow, huge airplane by Airbus. If i'm not wrong, this is now the biggest
commercial airplane in the world. Does anybody have any pics of how
the airplane might look at the inside.

[RC45]

Kind of pointless.. such aircraft will now put even more strain on the airports when multiple arrivals of such aircraft take place.

One of the reasons that less focus was placed on super-liners for the last 20 years or so.

Craft like this rapidly approach the point of diminishing returns with regard to passanger transport - but make sense for the likes of FedEx, UPS and DHL.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, they've show some mock ups of the cabin a few weeks back w/ the sky bar and lounge area. Pretty nice. The plane is ugly though.

Could you imagine the checkin time for all the passengers?

[Skaala]

man, that thing is huge... what do you recan mpg will be?

[FerrariFerrari]

Kind of pointless.. such aircraft will now put even more strain on the airports when multiple arrivals of such aircraft take place.

One of the reasons that less focus was placed on super-liners for the last 20 years or so.

Craft like this rapidly approach the point of diminishing returns with regard to passanger transport - but make sense for the likes of FedEx, UPS and DHL.
Boeing is hoping that that is going to turn out to be true with there 787.


what do you recan mpg will be?
Actually you mean GPM(gallons per mile). :wink:

[GT-R_R34]

Actually you mean GPM(gallons per mile).


Actually aircraft fuel is measure by weight.
like how many lbs per hour. (example 15000 lbs per hour)

[Zonda11]

I have a powerpoint presentation with many pictures of the inside - however, it's at work.

I'll try to get it up tomorrow.


For Now:

http://www.airways.cz/images/novinky/airbus_a380_stairs.jpg
http://www.airways.cz/images/novinky/airbus_a380_first_class.jpg
http://www.airchive.com/Memorabilia/Airbus/*A380-2.jpg
http://www.aeroespacio.com.ar/546/site/fotos/airbus1.jpg
http://webpointsao2.terra.com.br/istoe/dinheirodinamica/galeria/fotos/Airbus_A380_j.jpg
http://www.airchive.com/Memorabilia/Airbus/*A380-3.jpg
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WHAT they meant to say.....

http://img11.exs.cx/img11/170/really5jj.jpg

[ferrarif1fan89]

i feel sorry for the crew that has to load and unload that plane when it goes into service

i feel sorry for the janitorial crew, especially if theres a friggin casino on it!

[mike_sayer]

man, that thing is huge... what do you recan mpg will be?

I read recently that with a passenger load of 500 people, the A380 will do 90 miles per gallon per passenger. Which is pretty efficient i'd say!

I did a work placement at the plant in Broughton, UK where they make the wings for this thing - it was a pretty impressive deal. They fly the wings for all the other Airbuses to Toulouse in a converted A300-600 (Beluga), but the wings for this are so big that they don't fit in the plane, so they have to load them onto a barge and float them down.

What an amazingly useless fact :roll:

[Zonda11]

Shit, I can't remember.. my presentation says something like 3.x gallons/passenger/100km


EDIT:

Indeed, the A380 will be the first long-haul aircraft to consume less than three litres of fuel per passenger over 100 kilometres (95 miles per imperial gallon) - a fuel burn comparable with the best of small modern turbo-diesel cars.

[fedezyl]

Really impressive, about a little comment RC45 made....wich is a bit off...
It's been recently approved for all of the america's what's called RVSM (reduced vertical separation minima) wich enables airplanes to fly at more different flight levels, wich in turns allows more airplanes to fly at the same time, at the flight levels that are most efficient for the route.. The other thing about big planes, they are the move for transcontinental flights, the thing with these airplanes is that given the flight hours involved in these flights it is the primal focus of the airline to have as much people in each of the flights, plus, one other advantage of these airplanes, is that maybe the flight isn't full but there's a lot of cargo mixed with passengers, being cargo a big part of the money made in aviation. Also, the Asian market has a huge density per planes, and is an emerging market, so a big plane makes sense for these routes. Also the current trend on airlines is passenger comfort, wich reduces de amount of seats per airplane.
Plus I love it and hope I fly it one day hehe, but that's the subjective part... :D :D :D

[gbg]

Plus I love it and hope I fly it one day hehe, but that's the subjective part... :D :D :D

maybe pluna gets an a380 one day :lol:

i heard that aerolineas was interested on buying pluna, is that true?

the a380 is indeed impressive... but i want to fly a 747 before hehehhe

most of the airlines fly crappy airplanes to latin america, so we only get chances to fly old MD-11, 767, ie.

luckily things are starting to change, and some routes are getting better airliners... i heard that south african airways will fly the huge a340-600 to brazil from march...

[SilviaEvo]

we can conclude that this is one massive bitch! and it must drink a lot!

[fedezyl]

maybe pluna gets an a380 one day

Lolol, I can only hope so....
So far we know that the contract with Varig ends in June, Aerolineas, well the funds behind it tried to make an offer but it's ridiculous, I flew the President of Pluna to Sao Paulo last week and he told us that they were in talks with several airlines, from south africa to some asian carriers, but all I can say is that there are plans for expansion, they are talking about changing the 737-200's for -300's, it seems that I won't be flying the -200 for long...too bad because I love it...
:D

By the way, I saw the A340-600 in Buenos Aires, an Iberia one, and i see Lufthansa's 747-400 all the time at Sao Paulo, gorgeous airplane

[FoxFour]

Really impressive, about a little comment RC45 made....wich is a bit off...
It's been recently approved for all of the america's what's called RVSM (reduced vertical separation minima) wich enables airplanes to fly at more different flight levels, wich in turns allows more airplanes to fly at the same time, at the flight levels that are most efficient for the route.. The other thing about big planes, they are the move for transcontinental flights, the thing with these airplanes is that given the flight hours involved in these flights it is the primal focus of the airline to have as much people in each of the flights, plus, one other advantage of these airplanes, is that maybe the flight isn't full but there's a lot of cargo mixed with passengers, being cargo a big part of the money made in aviation. Also, the Asian market has a huge density per planes, and is an emerging market, so a big plane makes sense for these routes. Also the current trend on airlines is passenger comfort, wich reduces de amount of seats per airplane.
Plus I love it and hope I fly it one day hehe, but that's the subjective part... :D :D :D

fedezyl, I couldn't understand what you were trying to say in the beginning. Are you a pilot and met ICAO standards? Even though I haven't flown for a while, I must say that the reduction of the minimum standards of separation IMO may not be a good thing. May work out in airways but flying in major metropolitan areas that have Class B airspace, I forsee some problems (collisions) in the near future. Hopefully I will be proved wrong. I just read in your last post that you are a commercial pilot. Congrats! Nothing like fliying!

[fedezyl]

lol, yeah, sorry it was late and well my english didn't make much sense, the good thing about RVSM, as of what i've experienced so far compared to before, is that we are able to fly more direct routes than before, as far as class B airspace, (I flew for 2 years in the USA), I guess they are going to star using those Arrival procedures more often, well they still do a kind off standard arrival radar vectoring so, RVSM is more for en route than arrivals though, it's only for superior airspace, 29.000 and above, I personaly think it's a great thing, given the advantages it has given just to us, plus given the high fuel prices they are expecting that just because we are flying at more efficient levels millions are going to be saved just on fuel.
The problem really on Class B airspace congestion, it's not really the airspaces, but the available runways for takeoff and landing, look in Atlanta or JFK and all major airports and they have multiple parallel runways in use, and high speed taxiways...it's going to be a while before we see crowded airspace at the cruising flight levels...
Oh and thanks for the congrats, what did you used to fly???
I flew a friend's Piper Tomahawk the other day and couldn't beleive how slow I was going, it was AWESOME lolol! :D :D :D

[FoxFour]

Yeah, flying at FL is a different type of flying entirely. Now what you describe makes more sense. I've flown 152's, an Aircoupe and a Grumman Cheetah. I was trying to establish a career in General Avition but things just did not turn out the way that I expected. Would like to resume flying but with my eye problems I have to pass my medical. Right now I have commitments at home but if I can pass my medical, I will be flying again.

[fedezyl]

ehheheh, I used to fly in Florida, from OrlandoSanford airport to be exact, I gave flight instruction for a year there before my visa ran out, flying there is awesome, but totally different from flying with the airlines, you should go for flying again, what kind of visual problems you have? you can always get a medical with glasses if it's just that kind of problem..let me know

[neilo63]

I love this plane, i cant wait for the cheaper airfares.

[FoxFour]

ehheheh, I used to fly in Florida, from OrlandoSanford airport to be exact, I gave flight instruction for a year there before my visa ran out, flying there is awesome, but totally different from flying with the airlines, you should go for flying again, what kind of visual problems you have? you can always get a medical with glasses if it's just that kind of problem..let me know

In two years I had a total of six surgeries. The first two were cataract surgeries. Then I had surgery for a detached retina in my right eye. My left eye I had multiple surgeries for detached retina and macular surgery. I now have a synthetic implant sticthed in my retina (the left eye) because to prevent further detachment. It seems that my retina in that eye keeps detaching. For what I have been through, my vision is ok, but I'm somewhat afraid what will happen when I disclose my prior med problems when the time comes to go for my medical.

[fedezyl]

well if your vision is fine I think you should be ok, you should check anyways, you'd be surprised of what can be done to get you back flying, maybe a restricted pilot's license, there are many ways to keep flying mate, besides asking them doesn't cause you any trouble...it's off the record...hehe :mrgreen: