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Posted on 04/08/2007 9:40:26 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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Nothing more than a flying mega-bus.
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The 380 must be on every terrorist’s target list. Wait’ll some nutjob flies 800 passengers into a building somewhere.
What else is to be expected from a company that is funded and regulated by a political entity that thinks of the state as glorious, but the people little more than cattle?
stick a fork in europe... it climaxed.
Stick a fork in europe... it climaxed and was shooting blanks.
There is the old adage that suggests that what looks good will fly good, and in this case it appears true, as every A-380 landing I see, comes with a moment of yaw suggesting that the vertical tail loses authority at high alpha conditions. Anyone can watch how much the rudder is working to see that the ILS is working hard to keep it on centerline.
747s and especially 777s are rock solid in all flight aspects, but I think it is a good bet that one of these A-380s is going to have a really bad landing someday and kill a lot of people.
There are partially good landings, those you walk away from and then there are good ones, those that allow you to take off again.
And that will last until the airlines look at their balance sheets and decide that the A380's seating should be set to have 50% more passengers that the 747. Passengers will moo in delight at being shoved into another cattle car in the sky.
The closest I've ever been was one where the pilots decided to hide in the cockpit afterward and let the flight attendents listen to comments about having a fine carrier landing: fast and very hard.
747-400 has to be the prettiest plane flyin IMHO..
I did one of those partiall ones when I totaled my Saraqtoga.
The 747 was made with a vision of making profits for the airplane maker by providing a product that will make money for the buyer.
The a380 was made to hand out the maximum number of jobs across the EU and create public works projects as all airports in the EU are forced to upgrade to take this monster.
Does anyone know if it is still taking up two airplane slots per takeoff landing?
I reckon that the A380 has an extra-wide fuselage. Do you think that there getting more than normal turbulence in the airflow around the tail?
I suppose that will keep the crew busy during approaches in strong or gusty crosswinds.
if you remember, they actually selected flights knowing the plane would be nearly empty, so that it would be easier to deal with the passengers.
In these post-911 days I don’t think it would be feasible to hijack any filled aircraft and live to tell the tale, let alone an A380.
Karl, I think these airlines are trying to figure out ways to fill these planes, and they are obviously worried that they won’t be able to, thus the tactic of not pushing the plane to its highest capacity. I think they’d rather have passengers more comfortable than fly with empty seats, particularly since comfort might be a competitive advantage.
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