Author Topic: Airbus Superjumbo Jet Has First Passenger Test Flight... (Read 743 times)

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #15 on:** September 04, 2006, 11:43:20 PM »

Better add MEM and SDF to the airport list... (Memphis and Louisville)

AquaShrimp · « **Reply #16 on:** September 04, 2006, 11:56:13 PM »

UPS, my employer, has already ordered many A380s, either 9 or 12 of them.

straffo · « **Reply #17 on:** September 05, 2006, 02:15:36 AM »

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Originally posted by Toad
Probably make a wonderful freighter for FedEx and UPS.

Of course, that small package business will never takeoff.

and the others will be lost ...

/hate FedEx

Ripsnort · « **Reply #18 on:** September 05, 2006, 11:31:28 AM »

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Originally posted by xrtoronto
This is one beautiful aircraft

I disagree, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Beauty:

Beast:

xrtoronto · « **Reply #19 on:** September 05, 2006, 12:11:32 PM »

btw Rip, I think the 47 and 380 are both beautiful:)

straffo · « **Reply #20 on:** September 05, 2006, 01:31:41 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
I disagree, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Beauty:

Beast:

Biased

Ripsnort · « **Reply #21 on:** September 05, 2006, 01:53:26 PM »

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Originally posted by straffo
Biased

When it comes to looks, I'm not biased. I thought Boeings design for the F-35 competition was smurfy...I believed the competititons entry was much more beautiful, and it won the contract.

straffo · « **Reply #22 on:** September 05, 2006, 02:12:48 PM »

eeeeekkkk look like a duck after a crash on the sound barrier !

Gh0stFT · « **Reply #23 on:** September 05, 2006, 03:07:28 PM »

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Originally posted by straffo
eeeeekkkk look like a duck after a crash on the sound barrier !

LOL! straffo ;)

hey and the A380 is the future, there is no real competition to this Airbus,
it will work fine, why not? And yes i think it is a beautyfull airplane, i hope
to fly with it in a near future!

Ripsnort · « **Reply #24 on:** September 05, 2006, 03:10:06 PM »

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Originally posted by straffo
eeeeekkkk look like a duck after a crash on the sound barrier !

When I first saw that aircraft I said "Loser" based on its design alone.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #25 on:** September 05, 2006, 03:14:48 PM »

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Originally posted by Gh0stFT
LOL! straffo

hey and the A380 is the future, there is no real competition to this Airbus,
it will work fine, why not? And yes i think it is a beautyfull airplane, i hope
to fly with it in a near future!

Even Airbus admits there is competition. Take the blinders off.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- A senior Airbus official acknowledged Thursday that Boeing's new, slightly bigger 747 jet will pressure the European jetmaker's A380 superjumbo _ but said the move shows its U.S. archrival recognizes there is demand for larger planes.