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Title: Up close and personal: Airbus A380 in LAX
Post by: 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
Title: Up close and personal: Airbus A380 in LAX
Post by: Ack-Ack 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
Title: Up close and personal: Airbus A380 in LAX
Post by: Boroda 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 :(
Title: Up close and personal: Airbus A380 in LAX
Post by: BiGBMAW 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
Title: Up close and personal: Airbus A380 in LAX
Post by: RAIDER14 on March 20, 2007, 11:09:20 PM: Quote
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
Title: Up close and personal: Airbus A380 in LAX
Post by: Halo 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.
Title: Up close and personal: Airbus A380 in LAX
Post by: RAIDER14 on March 20, 2007, 11:13:14 PM: videos of the whale jet at LAX (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=a380+lax&search=Search)
Title: Up close and personal: Airbus A380 in LAX
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] 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.
Title: Up close and personal: Airbus A380 in LAX
Post by: -tronski- 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
Title: Up close and personal: Airbus A380 in LAX
Post by: Ack-Ack 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
Title: Up close and personal: Airbus A380 in LAX
Post by: Ball on March 21, 2007, 05:17:19 AM: Quote
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.
Title: Up close and personal: Airbus A380 in LAX
Post by: midnight Target on March 21, 2007, 08:12:58 AM: I guess ugly is in the eye of the beholder.

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/94_1174153184_hpnx0477.jpg)
Title: Up close and personal: Airbus A380 in LAX
Post by: lazs2 on March 21, 2007, 08:15:49 AM: don't they contribute to man made global warming?

lazs
Title: Up close and personal: Airbus A380 in LAX
Post by: Masherbrum on March 21, 2007, 08:42:13 AM: Quote
Originally posted by lazs2
don't they contribute to man made global warming?

lazs

shhhh, don't let Al Gore know.
Title: Up close and personal: Airbus A380 in LAX
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on March 21, 2007, 09:28:16 AM: Actually I think that they cause less warming per person carried than most other aircraft.
Title: Up close and personal: Airbus A380 in LAX
Post by: john9001 on March 21, 2007, 09:34:07 AM: Quote
Originally posted by MrRiplEy[H]
Actually I think that they cause less warming per person carried than most other aircraft.

less warming is still warming. come on, do you want to save the earth or not. ban the flying whale.

it does have a place in history, right beside the spruce goose and the concord.
Title: Up close and personal: Airbus A380 in LAX
Post by: Bodhi on March 21, 2007, 09:34:11 AM: Seems to me like a lot of wasted space downstairs.

I suspect that computer station is for monitoring for the time being and will not be production.
Title: Up close and personal: Airbus A380 in LAX
Post by: Dichotomy on March 21, 2007, 10:14:54 AM: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v99/dichotomy/hoairbus.jpg)

ya I'm bored today
Title: Up close and personal: Airbus A380 in LAX
Post by: Dinger on March 21, 2007, 10:21:49 AM: The accepted joke is to photoshop a Windows BSOD into every cockpit display.
Title: Up close and personal: Airbus A380 in LAX
Post by: Dichotomy on March 21, 2007, 10:23:38 AM: not THAT bored :)
Title: Up close and personal: Airbus A380 in LAX
Post by: Hawco on March 21, 2007, 12:06:18 PM: To the untrained eye like mine, Just how large is it compared to something like a 747? Been in one of them so I know how big those things are.
Title: Up close and personal: Airbus A380 in LAX
Post by: Ripsnort on March 21, 2007, 12:31:30 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Hawco
To the untrained eye like mine, Just how large is it compared to something like a 747? Been in one of them so I know how big those things are.

(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40728000/gif/_40728825_airbus_a380416.gif)

Also, an overlay:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Giant_planes_comparison.svg/350px-Giant_planes_comparison.svg.png
Title: Up close and personal: Airbus A380 in LAX
Post by: Hawco on March 21, 2007, 12:37:07 PM: Jeez, didn't know the thing was that big!
Title: Up close and personal: Airbus A380 in LAX
Post by: Wolfala on March 21, 2007, 12:44:29 PM: Pity. No B-36 comparison.
Title: Up close and personal: Airbus A380 in LAX
Post by: Ripsnort on March 21, 2007, 12:58:26 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Wolfala
Pity. No B-36 comparison.

The B-36 fuselage would not be much longer than a B-737, however its wingspan....possible that of a A380?

Edit: I was close: B-36 wingspan 232 ft. A380 is 260 ft.

(http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/b-36-DFSC8408873_JPG.jpg)
Title: Up close and personal: Airbus A380 in LAX
Post by: Gunslinger on March 21, 2007, 02:43:44 PM: do you think all it's bolts are in metric?
Title: Up close and personal: Airbus A380 in LAX
Post by: RAIDER14 on March 21, 2007, 06:36:18 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Ack-Ack
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

the 380 is 79ft. in height

the 747-400 is 63 ft. 8 inches in height

source airliners.net