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Airbus A380

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Evidentally the world's biggest airliner is a bit underpowered so Airbus decided to add a little more go juice.



Looks like the next Air Force One to me! :o:o:o

Yves.



holy crap, wouldn't that cause some protest... a US president flying around in a (partially) French built airplane...

-the artist formerly known as sinker

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That is up to 880,000 lbs of thrust!B| If my calculations are correct that config would use about a gallon of fuel for every 130 feet travled.:o It would need to carry 162,461 gallons of fuel to go 4000 miles.B| I am not sure how fast that would be going at an alt of 36k

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You would have to jump OUT the door about 261 feet with your wings closed to clear the wings and the blast:P The current config gets 512 feet to the gallon:D. A typical car could go about 1.55 miles on a tank of gas at that fuel consumptionB|

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