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Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / April 2005A380 took off successfully at 9.30am gmt, live on CNN
FYI I watched it on a BBC live internet video feed. Looked a lot like an airplane taking off. >I watched it on a BBC live internet video feed. > >Looked a lot like an airplane taking off. You're quite correct. And I'm sure that the Airbus executives watching were much happier seeing that, than the other logical possibility - an airplane not taking off:-) I didn't watch long enough to see - but I presume the other critical operation occurred, and they saw an aircraft land safely sometime later? Cheers, Alan, Australia > I didn't watch long enough to see - but I presume the other > critical operation occurred, and they saw an aircraft land > safely sometime later? It looked like they planned to land very soon after, as the wheels stayed out for the duration of the takeoff I saw on TV. ant > > I didn't watch long enough to see - but I presume the other > > critical operation occurred, and they saw an aircraft land > > safely sometime later? > > It looked like they planned to land very soon after, as the wheels stayed > out for the duration of the takeoff I saw on TV. It landed four hours later. >>I didn't watch long enough to see - but I presume the other >>critical operation occurred, and they saw an aircraft land [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > ant Being the first ever flight, they had plenty of other things to check before they retracted the wheels- everything in the right order, please! Apparently, on this first flight they also tested maximum speed with wheels extended, and minimum clean speed behaviour. There's a whole 2,000 hours of testing to go, this was just the first 4 hours. T. > > I didn't watch long enough to see - but I presume the other > > critical operation occurred, and they saw an aircraft land > > safely sometime later? > > It looked like they planned to land very soon after, as the wheels stayed > out for the duration of the takeoff I saw on TV. They didn't have any passengers aboard either. A very non-standard airliner departure. Pete, looking forward to making Sydney-London in one hop Hi, > They didn't have any passengers aboard either. A very non-standard > airliner departure. Of course, it makes such *sense* to have passengers on board your very first test flight. Ralph  SignatureFor contact details, please see www.ralphholz.de. > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Of course, it makes such *sense* to have passengers on board your very first > test flight. The point I was making was that it WAS a test flight. Cranking the wheels up as soon as you leave the runway is something we're all used to seeing on a routine flight. There's another logical possibility, an airplane refusing to land, it's much worse than one that refusing to take-off. During landing, the A380's wing seems to be generated so much lift in comparison of its current weight, that it looks like it almost overshoot the runway if the pilots didn't forced it to land. > There's another logical possibility, an airplane refusing to land, it's > much worse than one that refusing to take-off. > > During landing, the A380's wing seems to be generated so much lift in > comparison of its current weight, that it looks like it almost > overshoot the runway if the pilots didn't forced it to land. Are you talking about the actual landing, or the fly-by that it did before circling to land? If you're meaning the fly-by, that was intentional. BL. - -- Brad Littlejohn | Email: tyketto@sbcglobal.net Unix Systems Administrator, | tyketto@ozemail.com.au Web + NewsMaster, BOFH.. Smeghead! :) | http://www.sbcglobal.net/~tyketto PGP: 1024D/E319F0BF 6980 AAD6 7329 E9E6 D569 F620 C819 199A E319 F0BF > Looked a lot like an airplane taking off. It was one biggy of an airplane taking off... SignatureFor contact details, please see www.ralphholz.de. |
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