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Most airports will need modification to work with the A380 anyway. LAX are dragging their heels, which has led to Virgin Atlantic's delay on their A380 order. Melbourne, Australia is shutting their main runway in April for the necessary work.
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Later versions of the 777 have about that level of thrust, the A380 is big enough to need four of them.
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And there's the little problem of it never having flown yet, right?
Oh, I'm sure it'll fly just fine. Airbus has been designing planes for quite awhile now. I expect it'll fly exactly as they expect....mostly.
Yeah, that's what The Harland and Wolff shipyard said about the 'Titanic'...
Yeah, they never could get that fucking boat to fly, huh?
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And there's the little problem of it never having flown yet, right?
Oh, I'm sure it'll fly just fine. Airbus has been designing planes for quite awhile now. I expect it'll fly exactly as they expect....mostly.
Yeah, that's what The Harland and Wolff shipyard said about the 'Titanic'...
Yeah, they never could get that fucking boat to fly, huh?
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Let's just say I don't anymore...
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sundevil777 93
Evacuation from the upper deck of either the 747 or the A380 would be, well, a thrill.
Wouldn't want to do it if it was an ordered evac just because of like running off the runway and getting stuck in mud or something. I think I'd want to sneak down to the lower level.
Wouldn't want to do it if it was an ordered evac just because of like running off the runway and getting stuck in mud or something. I think I'd want to sneak down to the lower level.
People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am
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QuoteQuoteI saw video of the engine test (our ignition system) and that looked odd. I forgot what airframe it was mounted on but the engine looks huge
The engine that goes with it is a RR tent600,
no the Rolls-Royce Trent 800 are on the 777 I'm not sure whats on the A380 but it diffently not a RR trent 600
Most large aircraft have at least two sets of doors. They usually don't get used because a 'standard' gate doesn't have two jetways that will mate to the two doors. Perhaps airports will add a second jetway to gates to accomodate A380's - but that would be a lot of money to support a plane that will make up a small percentage of any fleet.
Edited to add - they're claiming between 90 and 126 minutes for turnaround, based on being able to load 555 passengers in 22 minutes with two jetways. That seems really, really optimistic. 13 passengers a minute per door? That's a passenger every 4 seconds. I've never seen a plane (an airliner used by the public at least) board that quickly.
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