Author Topic: Up close and personal: Airbus A380 in LAX (Read 682 times)

Ripsnort · « **on:** March 20, 2007, 08:46:56 PM »

An aquaintence on another website gave me permission to use these. He took these pics this afternoon at LAX where aircraft #1 landed yesterday. Enjoy!

http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=15732544&uid=2726312&members=1

Ack-Ack · « **Reply #1 on:** March 20, 2007, 08:58:15 PM »

My office over looks LAX and came in early to watch it land and just saw it take off a little bit ago.

Looking at it when it was sitting on the tarmac, you really don't grasp the size of the thing until you see it in the air. Sadly, it is an ugly looking plane though.

ack-ack

Boroda · « **Reply #2 on:** March 20, 2007, 09:56:24 PM »

I have taken this picture in Narita, Tokyo, Japan on Nov 20th 2006:

http://sky1.chph.ras.ru/~pavlov/A380.JPG

Warning - big picture! I didn't process it. Took it with full 10x zoom through the window glass in rainy weather.

My flight from Sydney landed at dawn, I saw A380 and thought that 1.5L of Shiraz were no good for me, but then I saw it again from a terminal, had to take a train to another building to take a better picture. Unfortunately it departed before my Aeroflot flight took off - it passed right next to a place where A380 was parked

BiGBMAW · « **Reply #3 on:** March 20, 2007, 10:41:39 PM »

whats all the computers in the dungeon for?

What are those water jugs for?..party punch?..oxygen?

And it looks liek one of those wales..thats got that big bump on the head..

747 easily wins bueaty pagent...A380 is ugly

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 20, 2007, 11:09:20 PM »

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Originally posted by BiGBMAW
whats all the computers in the dungeon for?

What are those water jugs for?..party punch?..oxygen?

And it looks liek one of those wales..thats got that big bump on the head..

747 easily wins bueaty pagent...A380 is ugly

those jugs are ballast tanks

Halo · « **Reply #5 on:** March 20, 2007, 11:10:02 PM »

Thanks, Rip, nice intro to the goliath. Reminds me of the Titanic. Hope there are no icebergs at 40k.

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 20, 2007, 11:13:14 PM »

videos of the whale jet at LAX

MrRiplEy[H] · « **Reply #7 on:** March 21, 2007, 02:34:29 AM »

Those wings must flex a LOT in turbulence. Must be fun to see for someone with a case of aeroplane fobia.

-tronski- · « **Reply #8 on:** March 21, 2007, 03:51:23 AM »

Most of the people I work with all agree its a lot smaller than you think its going to be when you stand next to it

...the second time it came I accompanied some of the ARFF onto the flight deck which was fairly interesting..

Tronsky

Ack-Ack · « **Reply #9 on:** March 21, 2007, 04:27:02 AM »

You're right, on the ground it didn't look any bigger than a 747 but in the air you can't help to think how they got such a fat ugly looking plane in the sky.

ack-ack

Ball · « **Reply #10 on:** March 21, 2007, 05:17:19 AM »

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Originally posted by Ack-Ack
...but in the air you can't help to think how they got such a fat ugly looking plane in the sky.

ack-ack

I think that every time i see a P-38.

midnight Target · « **Reply #11 on:** March 21, 2007, 08:12:58 AM »

I guess ugly is in the eye of the beholder.

lazs2 · « **Reply #12 on:** March 21, 2007, 08:15:49 AM »

don't they contribute to man made global warming?

lazs

Masherbrum · « **Reply #13 on:** March 21, 2007, 08:42:13 AM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
don't they contribute to man made global warming?

lazs

shhhh, don't let Al Gore know.

MrRiplEy[H] · « **Reply #14 on:** March 21, 2007, 09:28:16 AM »

Actually I think that they cause less warming per person carried than most other aircraft.