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Offline ozrocker

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A 380 showoff
« on: July 12, 2012, 07:42:10 AM »
Pretty cool video of an Airbus A380 doing some crazy stalls.
All I can say is if it weren't for computers......

http://youtu.be/0hLKwSfuJZA

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Offline Noir

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Re: A 380 showoff
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2012, 09:32:50 AM »
do these planes have fly by wire?
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Re: A 380 showoff
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2012, 10:12:33 AM »
A Boeing could have hammerheaded, and Split S'd    :lol

Cool vid Oz  :aok

No real stalls that i saw
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Re: A 380 showoff
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2012, 10:56:06 AM »
What stalls?
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Re: A 380 showoff
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2012, 04:22:05 PM »
Beautiful machine  :aok
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Re: A 380 showoff
« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2012, 08:44:17 PM »
What stalls?
That's what I was thinking...
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Re: A 380 showoff
« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2012, 08:53:50 PM »
do these planes have fly by wire?

Digital fly by wire I believe.

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Re: A 380 showoff
« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2012, 09:04:39 PM »
As soon as they take off and go into that 45 degree climb and winged over, looked like a stall to me, as well as the AoA at 3:30  :O
Look at the contrails in that flat turn @ 1:50 or so into the video, amazing! Wonder how many G's they were pulling  :headscratch:
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Re: A 380 showoff
« Reply #8 on: July 12, 2012, 09:41:41 PM »
We have a A380 fly over us every 2 saturday morning into LAX on final.  Amazing how huge the plane looks at 5k above you.  What a plane.
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Re: A 380 showoff
« Reply #9 on: July 12, 2012, 10:35:46 PM »
"Empty takeoff weight a mere 600 thousand pounds." .................


It looks like a floating whale... >.>
Like, ya know, when that thing that makes you move, it has pistons and things, When your thingamajigy is providing power, you do not hear other peoples thingamajig when they are providing power.

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Re: A 380 showoff
« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2012, 11:57:42 PM »
A Boeing could have hammerheaded, and Split S'd    :lol
The 380 was obviously overmodeled.
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Re: A 380 showoff
« Reply #11 on: July 13, 2012, 06:47:05 AM »
thx for the info...

did you guys ever see an A380 up close? the thing is ridiculously huge even compared to a 747
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Re: A 380 showoff
« Reply #12 on: July 13, 2012, 07:06:30 AM »
I raise your A380 a Boeing 787. This is how it's done:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b76l-iYpphM&feature=youtu.be
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Re: A 380 showoff
« Reply #13 on: July 13, 2012, 07:09:37 AM »
disregard
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Re: A 380 showoff
« Reply #14 on: July 13, 2012, 07:39:27 AM »
As soon as they take off and go into that 45 degree climb and winged over, looked like a stall to me, as well as the AoA at 3:30  :O
Look at the contrails in that flat turn @ 1:50 or so into the video, amazing! Wonder how many G's they were pulling  :headscratch:
Thanks for posting  :aok
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I see several wingovers as well.
I know it wasn't the smoke :lol
Maybe camera angles are not the best for showing, but sure look like stalls to me.
Then again, I'm not a Pilot.
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