A380 MSN001

earthman · Post by **earthman** » 20 Jan 2005, 00:44

I know airspeed does not mean ground speed.

What I wanted to know is whether the maximum cruising speed of an airplane is constant in Mach or in km/h.
If the airplane is flying at it's maximum speed of Mach 0.85 at 9500m, which should be about 256m/s, and it goes up to 10500m, will it still fly at Mach 0.85 (252m/s@10500m)? Or will it still fly at 256m/s, i.e. Mach 0.86@10500m? Will it fly even faster, because of the reduced drag at the higher altitude? How is an airliner's maximum cruising speed determined?

bits44 · Post by **bits44** » 20 Jan 2005, 07:09

It's easy just give this a read through!

It's as clear as a bell, if! your an aeronautical engineer.

http://www.womanpilot.com/past%20issue% ... rspeed.htm

SN30952 · Post by **SN30952** » 20 Jan 2005, 08:52

Qatar Airways said its A380s would seat just 490 passengers, but gave no details of its planned cabin layouts.
With seats for 500 passengers, Virgin's A380 could be slightly less spacious than Qatar's

earthman · Post by **earthman** » 20 Jan 2005, 14:37

bits44 wrote:It's easy just give this a read through!

It's as clear as a bell, if! your an aeronautical engineer.

http://www.womanpilot.com/past%20issue% ... rspeed.htm

This is how I understand it now: the maximum cruising speed is the speed above which the supersonic airflow over the wing can cause control problems for the aircraft, and is not determined by the maximum thrust the engines can produce?

p1lot · Post by **p1lot** » 20 Jan 2005, 16:42

A beast... can't wait to see her rolling down the runway!

What does everyone think the best livery for it will be??? I'm gonna stick with BA..

Post by **sn26567** » 20 Jan 2005, 16:51

p1lot wrote:What does everyone think the best livery for it will be??? I'm gonna stick with BA.

Pity BA didn't order it!
If we start dreaming, for me it would look fantastic in Sabena colours.

Post by **luchtzak** » 20 Jan 2005, 17:05

sn26567 wrote:If we start dreaming, for me it would look fantastic in Sabena colours.

Indeed, we even have an image of a Sabena Airbus A380:

http://coppermine.luchtzak.be/displayimage.php?pos=-959

bits44 · Post by **bits44** » 20 Jan 2005, 18:26

SN30952 wrote:Qatar Airways said its A380s would seat just 490 passengers, but gave no details of its planned cabin layouts.
With seats for 500 passengers, Virgin's A380 could be slightly less spacious than Qatar's

Looks like maybe these will be flying cattle cars.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/co ... 49,00.html

p1lot · Post by **p1lot** » 21 Jan 2005, 12:31

Should be a great plane though, imagine seeing the silhouette of that coming out of a cloud!!

Bring it on!

HorsePower · Post by **HorsePower** » 21 Jan 2005, 21:22

This is official:

China Southern Airlines will order 5 A380-800 pax on 28 JAN 05

Seb.

EDIT:
http://www.equipement.gouv.fr/actualite ... Robien.pdf

Vendredi 28 janvier:
18h00 Signature du contrat entre Airbus, China Southern et la CASC* portant sur l'achat de 5 Airbus A380

*China Southern & Chinese Aviation

HorsePower · Post by **HorsePower** » 22 Jan 2005, 14:55

An other one:

Virgin Atlantic has converted theirs 6 options into A380-900.

So VS will fly a total of 6 A388 and 6 A389.

Regards

Seb.

SN30952 · Post by **SN30952** » 22 Jan 2005, 18:58

luchtzak wrote:Indeed, we even have an image of a Sabena Airbus A380

I remember having a scale model of a Sabena Concord on my office desk, in the early '70.
Wonder if somebody still has one.

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