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Post by RonMiller on Dec 17, 2004 15:07:02 GMT -7
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Post by RonMiller on Dec 17, 2004 15:09:40 GMT -7
I posted the above link in the image tag here..
img]http://gallery.audioasylum.com/cgi/gi.mpl?u=26475&f=unknown_jet.jpg [/img
I left a deliberate space at the end of the jpg and left off the first and last bracket just so it would show up here so I could find out what I am doing wrong.
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Elwyn
New arrival
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Post by Elwyn on Dec 17, 2004 19:55:41 GMT -7
It looks like the prototype Airbus A-380. Man! What a behemoth! Wonder how it compares in size to an Antonov 225?
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Wayne
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Post by Wayne on Dec 17, 2004 22:03:44 GMT -7
Yeah it looks like a 380... I can't remember the specs but my company has some on order..one can carry as much as two MD-11's across the Pacific....that is a few years off, though...
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Post by RonMiller on Dec 18, 2004 0:34:07 GMT -7
Yeah the source I got the photo from says it is a A380. Big mama of a plane.
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Post by Galvin on Dec 18, 2004 12:07:11 GMT -7
This was the A-380 rollout some months ago at (I believe) Toulouse. I hear they are a bit over weight so that huge fuselage will come in handy if they ever decide to fill it with helium. (Hey, what do you expect from a Boeing fanatic living in Seattle?)
Seriously, this crowd killer is poised to place strains on the system, particularly on the ground, that have not even begun to be dealt with yet. Aside from the fact that there are exactly zero gates with the size and capacity to handle this monster, if the current average of three or four people that show up at the airport to meet each passenger on an international flight still holds, the traffic around most large air terminals sure ain't going to get any better when one of these pigs shows up. Even though the prestige value is one of the major selling points to countries which almost totally subsidize their national airlines and is a big factor in selling this ocean liner, I'm not a fan of huge airplanes.
I wonder what the wake turbulence separation requirement behind this flying natural disaster is going to be as well.
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Post by jetmex on Dec 18, 2004 12:55:30 GMT -7
And can you imagine how long it's going to take to get passengers onto and off of this thing? Even if they load from two doors, it's going to take forever. I don't like flying commercial anyway, this is another reason not to.
Dave, several of our new gates here at IAH E-terminal have dual jetways and could probably handle this one, though I'm not sure what the ramp is rated for as far as weight capacity.
The other interesting thing about this airplane is that, in typical European fashion, is built all over the continent and then the subassemblies are shipped to Frogland for final build. The wing can only be sent from its' factory in England down the river on a barge at low tide (so it will fit under the bridges), fuselage sections have to be shipped by sea from Spain and Germany. Then everything gets trucked from the Frog coast to the main factory, THROUGH a small town (whose roads are just wide enough for the fuselage sections to pass through). Why they didn't build a road around this town is beyond me. One good storm could wreck their whole production schedule. Has anyone committed to buying this monster yet?
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