First flight Airbus A380

x-prise · Post by **x-prise** » 27 Apr 2005, 14:34

noel foregard looks happy!...
nice plane his company designed, built and flew!
wow

some people will be happy for a while!
congrads airbus once again!

x-prise · Post by **x-prise** » 27 Apr 2005, 14:38

is she goin for another takeoff??

earthman · Post by **earthman** » 27 Apr 2005, 14:45

Maybe they took the wrong turn and had to go around again to get to the right place of the airport?

birdlike · Post by **birdlike** » 27 Apr 2005, 15:18

Just finished, orginal painting of A380 ... still wet:)

http://www.birdlike.com/gallery/aviatio ... 841_F_WWOW

Regards,
Greg
http://www.birdlike.com

B744skipper · Post by **B744skipper** » 27 Apr 2005, 15:52

Congratulations Airbus on this huge achievement, but let's not forget that still a lot of problems can develop...

Although I think that the aircraft still looks but-ugly, it is surely a magnificent view to see this bird taking off so smooth and gracefully.

dodger · Post by **dodger** » 27 Apr 2005, 15:56

Absolutely brilliant from start to finish, and going by the comments of the crew they put her through her paces in the short time they were in the air and i thought that the flyby before landing was a nice touch ,and Greg that's a great painting you have done of the A380, regards.

vivek0072 · Post by **vivek0072** » 27 Apr 2005, 18:14

B744skipper wrote:Congratulations Airbus on this huge achievement, but let's not forget that still a lot of problems can develop...

yes, it may, there was a long gap between the concorde's maiden flight and first commercial flight, hope it does not happen with the A380.

Congrats once again to airbus and fans.

ag894 · Post by **ag894** » 27 Apr 2005, 18:25

Some people found A380 very ugly. I think that it is not so ugly but also in the air it looks even better (not so fat):

http://www.elmundo.es/fotografia/2005/0 ... ue/01.html
http://www.elmundo.es/fotografia/2005/0 ... ue/03.html
http://www.elmundo.es/fotografia/2005/0 ... ue/04.html

x-prise · Post by **x-prise** » 27 Apr 2005, 18:40

birdlike wrote:Just finished, orginal painting of A380 ... still wet:)

http://www.birdlike.com/gallery/aviatio ... 841_F_WWOW

Regards,
Greg
http://www.birdlike.com

nice painting love it! 8O

HorsePower · Post by **HorsePower** » 27 Apr 2005, 19:23

Noise of the A380 has been recorded at take off:
>88 db
Same day, at the same point, an A320 has been recorded also:
>82 db

Regards

Seb.

BP · Post by BP » 27 Apr 2005, 19:44

I was fortunate to witness the first inaugural flight on Euronews and Skynews as both were transmiting it live. I just have to admit that it was one bautiful sight. 8O 8O 8O A perfect take off and landing.

Ps. I would like to wish Airbus all the luck in what has become one of the greatest acheivements in modern civil Aviation.

Knight255 · Post by **Knight255** » 27 Apr 2005, 19:58

I tip my hat to Airbus and the pilots who flew that bird.

regi · Post by **regi** » 27 Apr 2005, 20:37

It was a beautiful day.
For Glider: the Dubai Airport call was a hoax.
Now let's wait how it really looks inside for the travellers.
31" seat pitch?

Andries · Post by **Andries** » 27 Apr 2005, 22:27

HorsePower wrote:Noise of the A380 has been recorded at take off:
>88 db
Same day, at the same point, an A320 has been recorded also:
>82 db

Regards

Seb.

So it only makes 6dB more sound !? 8O Amazing !

Greetz,

Andries

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 27 Apr 2005, 22:33

I'm a bit late with my reply but had to work the entire day and couldn't see it live.

I saw the videos on TV and pictures on A.net and must say I'm amazed. This bird looks great when in the air.

Congratulations to Airbus and the entire team who made this milestone possible.

Chris

vivek0072 · Post by **vivek0072** » 27 Apr 2005, 22:42

Download the pdf from the link below,fire a print , cut and assemble as per instructions and you have your own A380 to fly. 8)

http://www.airbus.com/a380/seeing/learn ... olours.pdf

Post by **Kapitein** » 28 Apr 2005, 08:12

I'm just back from TLS and all I can say is WOW!!!!!!! Incredible airplane and even more incredible is that something like that can keep in the air. 8O
For me, the aircraft is nicer in real then on pictures. The next step will be the first pax-service.

Nice work Airbus

I will post some of my photo's that I took later on the site and also a tripreport can be expected.

PS: Thanks to SkyStef for keeping me up to date about the weather in TLS.

cj_chan · Post by **cj_chan** » 28 Apr 2005, 14:07

Congratulations ,Airbus!
Though I was not able to witness the first flight, I may have a chance to get on this incredible plane in person because it is said that our Southern Airlines is the first buyer and they are going to order 5 A380.

cathayoneworld · Post by **cathayoneworld** » 28 Apr 2005, 15:18

This maiden flight was successfully completed and I think that this will attract more customers which want to see wheather it can fly or not. And this first flight has proved that A380 can fly into the sky!

Good job, Airbus! Hope it will recieve more orders soon!

earthman · Post by **earthman** » 28 Apr 2005, 15:31

Andries wrote:
HorsePower wrote:Noise of the A380 has been recorded at take off:
>88 db
Same day, at the same point, an A320 has been recorded also:
>82 db

Regards

Seb.
So it only makes 6dB more sound !? 8O Amazing !

Greetz,

Andries

Actually, 6dB difference means 8 times as loud...