Airbus A380 has a successful first flight
In case you haven’t heard the news yet, the Airbus A380 (”World’s Biggest Airliner”) completed it’s maiden flight today. While nobody really expected anything special to happen (after all, in these days, pretty much everything has been computer-simulated already), it still amazes me that a a thing that weighs 560,000 kg is able to fly (it’s quite appropriate that the Airbus A380 website is titled “Seeing is believing”). Oh, and interesting little detail - the aircraft’s registration is “F-WWOW” …
PS. A few weeks ago, I saw the movie “The Aviator” - there, you can see how they try to make the “Spruce Goose” take off … I think the Airbus pilots had far fewer problems!
Posted in: Uncategorized | April 27, 2005 9:23 am
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Anonymous, on March 21, 2006 @ 6:48 am
Also interesting: MSN2 - the 2nd A380 - has the registration code “F-WXXL“
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