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Title: Superjumbo A380 takes off
Post by: Gh0stFT on April 27, 2005, 03:58:37 AM

(http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/WORLD/europe/04/26/airbus.launch/top.airbus.runway.jpg)

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.

Title: Superjumbo A380 takes off
Post by: Wmaker on April 27, 2005, 04:09:31 AM

(http://photos.airliners.net/middle/7/4/9/825947.jpg)

Title: Superjumbo A380 takes off
Post by: Wolfala on April 27, 2005, 04:18:36 AM

Bravo guys

Title: Superjumbo A380 takes off
Post by: Gh0stFT 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.

Title: Superjumbo A380 takes off
Post by: Gixer on April 27, 2005, 04:52:14 AM

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


...-Gixer

Title: Superjumbo A380 takes off
Post by: mora on April 27, 2005, 04:53:50 AM

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

Title: Superjumbo A380 takes off
Post by: Wmaker 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

Title: Superjumbo A380 takes off
Post by: Replicant on April 27, 2005, 06:07:08 AM

Impressive aircraft! :D

Title: Superjumbo A380 takes off
Post by: Nilsen on April 27, 2005, 06:38:08 AM

wtg AIRBUS :aok

Title: Superjumbo A380 takes off
Post by: mora on April 27, 2005, 07:15:12 AM

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

Title: Superjumbo A380 takes off
Post by: mora on April 27, 2005, 07:24:34 AM

Landed! WTG!

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

Title: Superjumbo A380 takes off
Post by: Dinger on April 27, 2005, 07:28:16 AM

wow those wings do flex, don't they?

Title: Superjumbo A380 takes off
Post by: mora 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.

Title: Superjumbo A380 takes off
Post by: Nilsen on April 27, 2005, 08:47:08 AM

Quote

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

yup :aok

Title: Superjumbo A380 takes off
Post by: CMC Airboss on April 27, 2005, 12:49:18 PM

Video of the first A380 flight here:

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