Author Topic: Superjumbo A380 takes off (Read 474 times)

Gh0stFT · « **on:** April 27, 2005, 03:58:37 AM »

TOULOUSE, France -- The world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, has taken off from Toulouse, France for its first-ever flight.
The jet is expected to be airborne from one to five hours or possibly longer.
Airbus officials said the jet would stay within about 100 miles (160 kilometers) of Toulouse during the test flight.

Wmaker · « **Reply #1 on:** April 27, 2005, 04:09:31 AM »

Wolfala · « **Reply #2 on:** April 27, 2005, 04:18:36 AM »

Bravo guys

Gh0stFT · « **Reply #3 on:** April 27, 2005, 04:43:08 AM »

Wmaker i dont see your linked picture, it just show a comercial for
airliners.net and information how to link to theyr photos.

Gixer · « **Reply #4 on:** April 27, 2005, 04:52:14 AM »

airliners.net are running a live feed of the test flight at the moment.

~~...-Gixer~~

mora · « **Reply #5 on:** April 27, 2005, 04:53:50 AM »

Live feed from Airbus:
http://www.airbus.com/A380/Seeing/live/video/live.asx

Wmaker · « **Reply #6 on:** April 27, 2005, 04:59:18 AM »

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Originally posted by Gh0stFT
Wmaker i dont see your linked picture, it just show a comercial for
airliners.net and information how to link to theyr photos.

Damn...looks ok here....well anyways...

http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?front=yes&keywords=a380

Replicant · « **Reply #7 on:** April 27, 2005, 06:07:08 AM »

Impressive aircraft!

Nilsen · « **Reply #8 on:** April 27, 2005, 06:38:08 AM »

wtg AIRBUS

mora · « **Reply #9 on:** April 27, 2005, 07:15:12 AM »

It just did a flypast and is now coming in for landing..

mora · « **Reply #10 on:** April 27, 2005, 07:24:34 AM »

Landed! WTG!

Gotta love the streaming, it must have cost a fortune.

Dinger · « **Reply #11 on:** April 27, 2005, 07:28:16 AM »

wow those wings do flex, don't they?

mora · « **Reply #12 on:** April 27, 2005, 07:41:39 AM »

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Originally posted by Dinger
wow those wings do flex, don't they?

I think they are designed with some curvature... At least they didn't flex very much up and down inflight.

Nilsen · « **Reply #13 on:** April 27, 2005, 08:47:08 AM »

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Originally posted by Dinger
wow those wings do flex, don't they?

yup

CMC Airboss · « **Reply #14 on:** April 27, 2005, 12:49:18 PM »

Video of the first A380 flight here:

http://www.airbus.com/A380/seeing/indexminisite.aspx