12/11/2006 : A380 at DUS

Robin_Bamps · Post by **Robin_Bamps** » 13 Nov 2006, 00:03

Hi all,

As most of you probably already know, an A380 visited DUS today. It was the F-WXXL in full house c/s of Airbus. It landed around 11:00 and left again around 15:15. There were a lot of people but I was there early and lucky to be with the first 500 spotters who actually got access to the Train Station terrace.

Two of my pictures :

Over the treshold of rwy 23L : http://www.planepictures.net/netshow.php?id=554739

And a lovely hard touchdown : http://www.planepictures.net/netshow.php?id=554740

I didn't see a lot of Belgian spotters present, quite surprised me as we'll not see this bird at BRU soon I guess !

Special thanks go out to Paul S and Carl H.

Regards, Robin Bamps.

SpottingEHBK · Post by **SpottingEHBK** » 13 Nov 2006, 00:06

No thanks Robin

rut-her · Post by **rut-her** » 13 Nov 2006, 17:45

congratulations with your nice pics Robin!!

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 13 Nov 2006, 18:11

Robin_Bamps wrote: I didn't see a lot of Belgian spotters present, quite surprised me as we'll not see this bird at BRU soon I guess !

Wish I had the time to see the A380

Thanks to all of you for sharing the pictures

hope to see a lot !!

Chris

Atlantis · Post by **Atlantis** » 13 Nov 2006, 18:56

One of the reasons Airbus decided to go to Dusseldorf was that he not visited Belgium and The Netherlands. This was a kind of a compensation.

Vonsmalhausen · Post by **Vonsmalhausen** » 13 Nov 2006, 22:44

here a little report from my visit yesterday to Dusseldorf

it was a very hectic one

the place was overcrowded ( today i read there where over 60.000 visitors 8-O ) and for those who have already visited DUS ; you know tru what small ( and fieuw ) doors and stairs one has to go to the terrasses

my main goal was getting some good shots of the A-380, so i started at the Railway terras to get a landingshot, this wen't well, as i managed to get up there as one of the first ( there where maybe 5-600 people waiting in a loooooong que to get up there ) and i got a good place

then i had to dicide if i wanted a taxi and lining-up shot ( and staying where i was) ore, go take a take-off shot at the main terras : i dicided to try and get a T.O. shot.
from then on i realised how much people where at the airport

the trip from one terras to an other takes you normally some 15 minutes ; yesterday it took me 3 and a half houre to get to the other terras

it was pure madnes

they had to let people on the stairs in little groups with a lot of intermission between the groups, and only after a large amount of people got down, a little group could go up

and this senario repeted time after time

but in the end i got just in time to get a glimp of the beast on the ground, an placed myself on the terras to get some T.O.shots; getting to the border was out of question, as there was a wall of people 6-7 rows thick.
so, maybe it would have been better if i stayed at the railway terras, but i'm pretty happy with the result i got

first some other visitors

but this is why everybody was there

Yaroslav · Post by **Yaroslav** » 14 Nov 2006, 18:51

Great photos, both of you

! First time I see "Russia" titles on a Pulkovo airplane.

TUB001 · Post by **TUB001** » 14 Nov 2006, 19:09

Has anyone spotted the OO-MOB ?

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