A380 |
The A380 is the largest commercial airliner ever built. It has 50% more cabin space than the next largest ariliner, the Boeing 747-400. The only airliner with two decks that run the entire length of the fuselage, the A380 can carry 500 plus passenger in three class configuration. It has a range of over 9,000 miles at a cruising speed of 560 mph, allowing it to fly nonstop from New York to Hong Kong. Takeoff weight is nearly 1 3 million pounds. If you wanted to buy one new, it would cost you in the neighborhood of $400 million. Only twenty airports in the world have runways certified to handle the weight and sheer size of the A380.
A380 Cockpit |
Here is a link to a very cool A380 cockpit video...
http://www.videoaround.com/cockpit/airbus-a380-cockpit-tour.html
Here is another video that features Lufthansa chief pilot, Juergen Rapp in an A380 cockpit, explaining its flight control and flight management systems.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Oa6kRkyyIo&feature=relmfu
There was a time when I wanted very much to have a career as a pilot with the airlines. Color acuity deficiency killed that idea. Anyway, the A380 is the top of the mountain for a passenger aircraft pilot.
The following link is a very cool cockpt video of an A380 pushing back from the gate and departing London Heathrow Airport.
The following is a cockpit video of an A380 arriving at Heathrow.
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