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A380 - That Big Plane
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Yay!! - I just booked a ticket for next year to the land of Oz and it's on the A380!!
Anyone else been on it yet?
Anyone else been on it yet?
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Whatever happened to the yellow brick road?
It got congestion charge
That carried the wings for the A380 over to france.
Weird looking thing and lands about 10miles from where i work, its really freaky to see it go over. Its silent and so low that it looks ready to drop from the sky.
I don't believe the Beluga is wide enough to transport the wings of the A380
This is from WikiPedia
The wings, which are manufactured at Filton in Bristol and Broughton in North Wales, are transported by barge to Mostyn docks, where the ship adds them to its cargo. In Saint-Nazaire in western France, the ship trades the fuselage sections from Hamburg for larger, assembled sections, some of which include the nose. The ship unloads in Bordeaux. Afterwards, the ship picks up the belly and tail sections by Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA in Cádiz in southern Spain, and delivers them to Bordeaux. From there, the A380 parts are transported by barge to Langon, and by oversize road convoys to the assembly hall in Toulouse.[12]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east/3594419.stm
(This link also says they're too heavy to be transported by air)
http://www.cadinfo.net/editorial/A380-1.htm
(and this one confirms the wings are too large to be flown)
Not yet ...i'm waiting for you ;lot to test drive it.
The 747 was introduced in 1970 - how old is that ... 38 years old - it's about time we had a newer plane to replace it.
[/stops pretending to be rachie]
Already knew the 747 was Boeing, thought everyone knew that ..
I meant it's about time there was another big plane to replace the 747 - irrespective of who makes it.
Busy place. Every time i go past the runway theres always a plane about to land or take off.