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Airbus Launches 800 Passenger Jumbo Jet
voma writes "Airbus, the world's largest planemaker, will unveil its A380, a $16 billion wager that airlines will order giant aircraft to ferry passengers between major airports over the next 20 years. The double-decker A380 plane has a wing span of 80 meters (262 feet), almost the length of an American football field. It's 73 meters long and weighs as much as 569 tons (1.2 million pounds) when fully loaded for takeoff. It will have a range of 8,000 nautical miles."
Where's the American version, that holds 400 jumbo passengers?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
... so we won't need to have a beowulf...
The double-decker A380 plane has a wing span of 80 meters (262 feet), almost the length of an American football field. It's 73 meters long and weighs as much as 569 tons (1.2 million pounds) when fully loaded for takeoff. It will have a range of 8,000 nautical miles.
Impressive stats. How many Libraries of Congress can it hold?
If you RTFA, the 800 seat version is only available within Europe and Asia-Pac. Americans will have to make do with a 400 seat version due to, erm... wider seat requirements
almost the length of an American football field
How many volkswagon beatles lined up side by side would be needed to encircle the Earth 12 times as is needed to match the height of stacked A380 planes from here to the moon?
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It was put on hold until the in-flight McDonald's could be properly integrated with the cabin.
The double-decker A380 plane has a wing span of 80 meters (262 feet), almost the length of an American football field. It's 73 meters long and weighs as much as 569 tons (1.2 million pounds) when fully loaded for takeoff. It will have a range of 8,000 nautical miles.
That is an impressive list of superlatives for a vehicle vulnerable to someone with a laser pointer and a grudge.
Don't include us English in that. We can fuck up any big construction scheme. The French, however... Did anyone see that bridge that is higher than the clouds? That's worthy of a Slashdot story in itself.
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Are you insane? The airlines can't even get my baggage to where it's supposed to go, and you want to be baggage?
I have flown in a lot of 747s and have NEVER seena bar.
They had to take them out, seeing the pilots at the bar kept making the passengers nervous.
hack a day
That google image link has Google textads for ebay... "Airbus A380 for sale. aff Check out the deals now! www.eBay.com" and "Low Priced Airbus A380 Huge Selection! (aff) ebay.ca"
Personally I find that frickin' hilarious.
This would be my main question - what are they going to fuel these giant planes with in 20 years? Or 10 years? Or even 5 years? Already, fuel prices are causing airlines headaches, and most airlines are operating in the red as it is.
I suspect the future of flight might look more like this than this.
It's a pronunciation problem that got out of hand...it's called the war on tourism.
Dome du Millenniume?
AirFrance A-380 Flight 3842 to Paris will now begin boarding rows A39 to A57 at gate 34. Passengers not already in line are advised to enter the end of the queue, located in terminal G, just past the third McDonald's on your right.
-- I prefer the term "karma escort."
Yeah we know how to do big engineering projects... like a giant spike. Also known as the world's tallest sculpture (i.e. anything taller that other countries have built actually DOES something, e.g. Eiffel Tower - radio transmitter).
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