zow2 Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Since posters here are all over the map with (OT) stuff, I offer up one about the Airbus A380. They just rolled out the prototype last week. Has anyone seen this monster? I'll link some pictures here. It's supposed to hold over 500 people and has two decks. The pics don't give it the proper scale but it dwarfs the 747 in size. They have to modify some airports in order to accept this plane on taxiways and at jet bridges. I can be a nervous flyer. Even though it's very cool, I don't think I want to be on the maiden voyage. http://www.airliners.net/open.file/751309/M/ http://www.airliners.net/open.file/753464/M/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaska Darin Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Since it's French, it probably won't land in Germany. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavin in Va Beach Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Since it's French, it probably won't land in Germany. 203001[/snapback] Probably easy to hijack too. I imagine the flight crew always surrenders without a fight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROCCEO Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 The little vertical ad on the side has a picture of a 747 landing in st. maarten, I've been there and stood on teh beach, which is right accross the street from teh runway, it quite the site, but I found it a little uncomfortable to be right behind the runway(holy sand in the face). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomerjamhead Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Is this what they plan on doing with all of my world tax dollars? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Since posters here are all over the map with (OT) stuff, I offer up one about the Airbus A380. They just rolled out the prototype last week. Has anyone seen this monster? I'll link some pictures here. It's supposed to hold over 500 people and has two decks. The pics don't give it the proper scale but it dwarfs the 747 in size. They have to modify some airports in order to accept this plane on taxiways and at jet bridges. I can be a nervous flyer. Even though it's very cool, I don't think I want to be on the maiden voyage. http://www.airliners.net/open.file/751309/M/ http://www.airliners.net/open.file/753464/M/ 202998[/snapback] That plane's going to kill Boeing's commercial aviation business, too. Just like the 747 did to McDonnell-Douglas. Ultimately, they'll find a way to cram 800 people in it, and capture the short-haul high-volume Pacific Rim and Indian Ocean routes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duey Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Look at the size of those freaking engines!!!! Holy crap! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zow2 Posted January 12, 2005 Author Share Posted January 12, 2005 Since it's French, it probably won't land in Germany. 203001[/snapback] ick, 500 french people on one plane. can you imagine the stink?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB27 Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Boeing is slated to unveil a new superairliner in the near future. I hate the french, but Airbus is owned by england too, so I guess I have to accept it. Hate the frenchies, like the Brits. It is a huge airliner, but I understand only large airlines could dream of buying due to enormous cost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB27 Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Look at the size of those freaking engines!!!! Holy crap! 203043[/snapback] The Boeing 777 is so big, that the engines are bigger than the circumfrence of a 757!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverNRed Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Anyone catch this, on the bottom right under the second picture? Photographer More: French Frogs AirSlides Contact French Frogs AirSlides Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramius Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Now thats what i call an airplane... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Ever see a Lockheed C5-A up close? US Military transport plane bigger than a 747 or this Airbus. I saw one when I was a teen visiting my brother at Griffis AFB in Rome NY. (long gone now) Anyone know if they still fly them? http://www.ece.osu.edu/~daim/pcx4/C5A.jpg PTR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 What a friggin waste. Another European failure, just like the Concorde. It's going to be too expensive to run unless they have the thing 3/4 full. And do you think that will happen? The airline industry is all about flexibility of scheduling and cost. Very rarely is it about luxury or pure size. Since posters here are all over the map with (OT) stuff, I offer up one about the Airbus A380. They just rolled out the prototype last week. Has anyone seen this monster? I'll link some pictures here. It's supposed to hold over 500 people and has two decks. The pics don't give it the proper scale but it dwarfs the 747 in size. They have to modify some airports in order to accept this plane on taxiways and at jet bridges. I can be a nervous flyer. Even though it's very cool, I don't think I want to be on the maiden voyage. http://www.airliners.net/open.file/751309/M/ http://www.airliners.net/open.file/753464/M/ 202998[/snapback] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomerjamhead Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Where's Oliver? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Britbillsfan Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 What a friggin waste. Another European failure, just like the Concorde. It's going to be too expensive to run unless they have the thing 3/4 full. And do you think that will happen? The airline industry is all about flexibility of scheduling and cost. Very rarely is it about luxury or pure size. 203233[/snapback] Concorde was not really a failure - it revitalised the French aviation industry with all its technical advances and that has been a major help to make Airbus such a successful corporation. The French exploited the knowledge they gained from the Concorde project very well (kind of like a loss-leader product in a supermarket but on a larger scale). The British aircraft industry failed to exploit the new technology and pretty much died with concorde, with the exception of smaller companies and Rolls Royce (who make the engines for many planes). There is plenty of demand for the bigger aircraft, Airbus already has plenty of sales set up. Possibly the best run (mostly) French corporation there is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayg Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Actually you are wrong. It will have the lowest cost per seat to operate in the industry. Airbus designed their planes to be profitable if they never carry a passenger. They were desiged with a lot of cargo space to maximize revenue for the airlines. What a friggin waste. Another European failure, just like the Concorde. It's going to be too expensive to run unless they have the thing 3/4 full. And do you think that will happen? The airline industry is all about flexibility of scheduling and cost. Very rarely is it about luxury or pure size. 203233[/snapback] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuckincincy Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Is that one the "TD" model...as in trade deficit? D Don't B word aboud US unemployment when you use/but foreign products... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SF Bills Fan Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Those things have a full stand up bar in the them, right? That's my kind of plane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 The airline industry is all about flexibility of scheduling and cost. Very rarely is it about luxury or pure size. 203233[/snapback] Maybe the US airline industry. In other places, it's about volume. There's a reason Japan uses 747s for inter-island hops: enough people fly the routes that as a practical matter, they can't use smaller planes. There's a limit to the frequency of takeoffs from a single runway (about a minute, I think), once you hit that limit, the only way to push more people through a given runway is to increase the size of the planes rather than the frequency of flights. As far as I can tell, there is no real market for super-jumbos in the continental US routes; rather, there's a need for increased efficiency and decreased cost-of-operation that Boeing's 7E7 is intended to satisfy. But that doesn't mean the rest of the world necessarily shares the same needs. I wouldn't be surprised if JAL ultimately started buying A380s configured for 700 or 800 seats for their short-hop routes. That's how the 747 evolved...and the basic needs of the market haven't changed since then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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