First flight Airbus A380

Post by **sn26567** » 26 Apr 2005, 16:53

To date, Airbus has received 154 orders and commitments from 15 customers. A380 customers to date are (by alphabetical order):

Air France: 10
China Southern Airlines: 5
Emirates: 43, including two freighters
Etihad Airways: 4
Federal Express: 10 freighters
International Lease Finance Corporation: five A380s and five A380 freighters
Korean Air Lines: 5
Lufthansa: 15
Malaysia Airlines: 6
Qantas Airways: 12
Qatar Airways: 2
Singapore Airlines: 10
Thai Airways International: 6
UPS: 10 freighters
Virgin Atlantic Airways: 6

A318 · Post by **A318** » 26 Apr 2005, 17:28

Am I glad I use none of these companies

:laugh:

Greetz,

Erwin

x-prise · Post by **x-prise** » 26 Apr 2005, 19:17

thank god its a half day for me on this historic day tommorow otherwise i would end up commiting suicide, now guys dont forget to post wich channels have a380 showing i will add all channels ive got that are showing it or otherwise the sites of the media.
good luck airbus

god please dont take a bath tommorow!...

please evryone watch and be amazed

LX-LGX · Post by **LX-LGX** » 26 Apr 2005, 21:44

The Flemish newspaper De Standaard now has some nice photo's online:

http://www.standaard.be/extra/fotospeci ... =280&pic=1

click on "volgende" (if you don't find it, then change 1 in the URL into 2-3-4-5-6-7-8)

Lyulka · Post by **Lyulka** » 26 Apr 2005, 21:51

If you participated in one of the A380 games on airbus.com you received a login and a password to enter their broadcast.

Insider · Post by **Insider** » 26 Apr 2005, 22:11

From EURONEWS website:
(posted today)

"There will be full live coverage of the plane's first flight from Airbus' headquarters in Toulouse, France on Euronews."

http://www.euronews.net/create_html.php ... tion=0,eco

Post by **Apuneger** » 26 Apr 2005, 23:15

German TV-station ZDF will have a special program with live coverage of the maiden flight. Start at 9h45 LT. Ends around 10h30 LT.

Greets,
Ivan

Knight255 · Post by **Knight255** » 26 Apr 2005, 23:29

So what is the exact time that it will fly?? Any word if any American news teams will be out there. Since it is a historic event in aviation, I'm very interested!!

Zorba · Post by **Zorba** » 27 Apr 2005, 09:07

Flight should be planned at around 10LT! I'm watching BBC now, but I will switch to ZDF from time to time! My videorecorder is set! (What a luck I'm sick today

)

Post by **luchtzak** » 27 Apr 2005, 09:10

Airbus_fan wrote:What a luck I'm sick today )

I know already what disease you have: Airbusitis

But getting terribly

fftopic: here

Zorba · Post by **Zorba** » 27 Apr 2005, 09:14

Airbusitis

That's just the same my doctor said

slowhead · Post by **slowhead** » 27 Apr 2005, 09:25

Good morning to all of you.
It looks like this is a very important and good day for all aviation freaks. If you don't have a special username and password for the airbus live broadcast you could try this link and it should work.
http://www.airbus.com/A380/Seeing/live/video/live.asx
Enjoy!

Post by **Apuneger** » 27 Apr 2005, 09:37

Airbus_fan wrote:Flight should be planned at around 10LT! I'm watching BBC now, but I will switch to ZDF from time to time! My videorecorder is set! (What a luck I'm sick today )

What a luck I have the week off today...and yesterday, and tomorrow and... well you get it. Too bad I couldn't make it to TLS however, that just wasn't possible. But, I still will fly the MD-11 tomorrow CDG-AMS.

Anyway, back to the A380 now. The Airbus live broadcasting is up and running, albeit in a low image size (something like 300x200 pixels). BBC and CNN are doing some reports now and then. Seems like there's alot of people along the airfield. Just imagine being a pilot at TLS and having to leave for your flight back to the base right now. That must be hard to deal with.

There we have the pushback!!

Hope it flies

Greets,
Ivan

waldova · Post by **waldova** » 27 Apr 2005, 09:38

It works!! Many thx. I had a login but the login worked once but couldn't connect to the live broadcast so I closed it but after I couldn't login again. But now I can watch too! It's at pushback! Jeeehaaa

Zorba · Post by **Zorba** » 27 Apr 2005, 09:47

OMG, great views of her! She looks so nice and shiny 8O GO AIRBUS

Post by **Apuneger** » 27 Apr 2005, 09:49

Seems like the Airbus.com live stream is running some 30 seconds behind the CNN live footage... So you could see the first flight twice

Greets,
Ivan

Post by **luchtzak** » 27 Apr 2005, 09:51

Thanks for mentioning that link slowhead, you really made my day!

slowhead · Post by **slowhead** » 27 Apr 2005, 10:07

I've been up all night to find the live broadcast online, and finally I got it.
The bbc broadcast is 20 seconds ahead on the airbus one

Zorba · Post by **Zorba** » 27 Apr 2005, 10:08

Indeed slowhead! CNN will cover it all, but still thanks so much slowhead! As Bart said, you made my day!

wouter_vda · Post by **wouter_vda** » 27 Apr 2005, 10:17

tnx for the streaming link indeed, watching it too now...let's just hope my boss doesn't pass by