Thats a great argument. had it been built in 1990 instead of 2001, we might have seen a very different world indeed. That being said, 1990s was the gulf war and not the time for double decker planes!
favourite variant? For sure the A380-1000. Finally proportions would match. But since it didn't get to be - I stay with my beloved 747-8i. - And don't mind the little discount you gave on the ACJ380. Discounts are an industry standard and you gave many of us a good little laugh/smile. Hang loose!
A380 Neo 1000 was always my absolute aviation dream, and right now I really hope it will become a reality in the coming years. This godlike plane is a Phoenix, it will come back for sure 😍😎👌🦾🙏🙏
Man that’s a depressing video. I love that aircraft so much and always tried to book tickets on it whenever flying to Asia. It’s amazing to think there’s not enough demand for planes to carry so many passengers. Even before the pandemic. Such a shame to see it being phased out already by some airlines. Maybe one day the demand for air travel will increase to such an extent that modern airports need the A380 again.
The only reason I didn't like the A380-800 was because it really looked too short. Like 747SP Alas, failure of A380 program had proven Boeing Market was correct with canceling numerous 747 variants. Even the 747-8 was launched with the freighter version first before the passenger version.
It is hard to find sufficient passengers and sufficient freight for the same city pairs at the same time. Also, any floor that carries cargo has to be heavily strengthened and this plane was already overweight.
The A380 has 3 decks. The upper one, middle one and the lower deck. The upper and middle decks carry passengers while the Lower deck is for cargo. Hope your question is answered.
There is indeed one, operated by HiFly as seen in a few clips in the video. Sadly, HiFly announced that they will be retiring their one and only A380C, and also their only A380 :'(
747 1968-Present, 57 years so far. A380 2007-2020, 13 years. End of story! Sad to see such a great aircraft, the A380 retired far too long before its time
Is there more information on the private A380 concept? I'd love to see how they'd propose to lay it all out, if it was bought by royalty how would the area for all of the staff be equipped (top floor for the royals, lower level for staff seating), could armored cars be transported in the cargo hold or too much weight?
A380 concept: A380-400; just the A380 with smaller wings and can carry 550 passengers in an all economy configuration. Designed to land at smaller airports
2min05sec of the video shows a picture on the screen a system that calculates the A380's Range Capacity 3,851 Nautical Miles and 7,153 Kilometers Is there on any website to calculate? I wanted to do the calculation for other Airbus aircraft Where could I find it?
What we need is a small private jet we can park in our garage and fly any where in the world that we can afford. Screw standing for hours at major airports and getting stripe down to learn if we are carrying a longer paper clip.
A380-1000 would be a good alternative to the 747 for those pilgrimage flights to Saudi Arabia from places with many pilgrims such as Malaysia and Indonesia.
even if you get one for free, you can't afford to keep it. unless you have a big land with large open space where you can park this giant craft, you will have to rent space to keep this thing, which would run at least tens of thousands of dollars each month. and even if you have such land, you can't afford to move the craft there, from some airport where it is currently sitting. that transportation will cost you almost a million dollars, depending on the location of your land.
Way back when the global test flight was underway part of the sales pitch apparently was to unbolt the nose and insert a new section to allow the upgrade for more passengers as a future upgrade. That would have been interesting but apparently planned.
cargo containers and systems were put in place based on the designs of aircraft of the period and the Queen set the rules that everyone had to play by. The Queen was designed for the cargo game from day ! so of course it is best suited to the role as Airbus was trying to convert passenger designs to freighter rules, not so easy to do despite a great BIG plane to work with
Really liking this video! The intro is super smooth now, and the lack of echo is definitely appreciated. Your voice is a little quiet in comparison to the music, but it wasn't terribly so.
Awesome, thank you! I'll fix up the voice a bit more for the next one :) I'm getting better on each video and I think this one is my best yet. Well... till this weekend ;)
Too heavy and expensive, old design, old materials, old mentality; plus they took their sweet time, spending a lot of money for a mediocre design, and never was a a competitor to the latest 747, improved in everyway; Mediocre in everyway, it should had 3 engines only, wouldn't work as a cargo, just really bad, and spent all that money for a late and mediocre outdated result? wow, I'm surprised this wasn't called a scam
There never would have been an Airforce 1 it would have been a security issue disaster to use a European plane, also the freighter version was terrible, having a plane that large loading through the side doors is ridiculous.
Very good, visually and content. Beautiful voice too, but at times, your words are pronounced softer at the end of a sentence - not audible enough. For the rest: 10/10. Oh, every trip I flew on the A380 was memorable and nice. Too bad it wasn’t a financial success. All the best with your channel! Big hugs from South Africa!
Hi Found and Explained. I got recommended your channel by the RUclips algorithm, probably because I watch a lot of aviation channels. So far I've really liked the 10 or so of your videos that I've seen but to be honest, I think your channel is gonna get dwarfed by channels like Wendover Productions (that often features plane videos), Curious Droid, etc. It would be cool though if you collaborated or merged with a channel like Mustard which has great content but only releases a video about once a month. Your video style and topics might also blend well with 2bit aviation (which seems to have renamed its channel Project Da Vinci).
Globalism was promising a great future in the '90s. I think Europeans were anticipating an uplift in per capita income especially for China and India (over 3 billion people in total). That would trigger a sizable increase in Intercontinental Travel which A380 is built for. That would require dozens of A380s in service, which did not realize. Another factor, security measures imposed by the US has destroyed the airlines, air travel became a torture. Tighter visa requirements also added to reduction in number of passengers in Intercontinental Travel. A380 is a technological marvel and will come back in an Improved more efficient version. Salute to those Engineers, Policy Makers, Managers and Bean Counters who created the A380.
To make a long explanation short ! It just was not economically feasible for anyone but the top 1% on the economic spectrum ! The engines it needed to make it economical feasible just was two far away in developmental terms.
The "neo" improvements are already stock in the A350 program. The A320 neo and A330 neo are modernizations to bring fuel economy at least close to A350 and A220 standards.
@@Exodon2020 Yes thats correct... What I was saying is that I can't wait to see the A350 NEO up close. I work with the A330 NEO daily. Its a Bad A$$ Jet!!!! But the A350 Trumps them all!!! (As for the Airbus line goes)
Theoretically maybe but youd need them to be significantly more powerfull than any we have, as well as redesign the plane's wings to support them and likely make it taller too
I did like the combo concept; especially where the passenger portion was easily reconfigurable. This would have become very convenient when the pandemic hit as they could configure it for more 1st class seating (to give more space between seats) and still carry plenty of freight (which possibly increased during the pandemic). Another interesting possibility of the reconfigurable design is the passengers could stay in those modules and the entire module is moved in and out of the plane. Don't know if they could do that for safety reasons, but it would solve a lot of the hassle of boarding and disembarking a plane. Hmm. Late arrivals could be an issue.
Lufthansa is planning on making the A380F a reality. Lufthansa has stated it wants to keep the A380 flying as long as possible but it means this in a cargo sense. My reasoning is that Lufthansa wants a cargo version of an airliner that's locally produced (.e.g Airbus) but more than likely. We'll see some airlines purchase A380s that are being sold off by the big airlines if they can afford it. Just don't expect to see a RyanAir A380 or a EasyJet A380.
There is no such thing as a "tarmac" at an airport. You have a ramp, apron, pad, taxiway, runway, flight line, or gate. Tarmac is a building material, like concrete. You will never hear a pilot use that term.
With the A380 plus the aviation industry learnt that people dont want to be crammed like sardines in order to maximise the profit of airlines no matter how 'cheap' tickets became.
The problem was, Emirates were the only airline interested in a new A380 at that time, and they certainly were not interested in cramming more people into the same space. They just wanted the plane to burn less fuel and require less maintenance.
You know, I don't really see people make this comparison, but the A380 is a lot like Concorde in that for all of their great innovations, they were never really commercially successful or profitable, and they were both designed for a time in aviation history that their designers thought was gonna happen but never did.
The music drowns out the spoken word several times. Ended up giving up on the video rather than try and figure out what was being said. Would be better to have the music as a softer background track and not so loud.
Sure thing, i'm always looking to improve and if the music is too loud then thats a big problem. If you could know at what point there is a problem that would be great
It is a crying shame that the A380 is no longer wanted world wide as this aircraft is the most comfortable and noiseless passenger aircraft ever built. It is by far my favorite aircraft to fly on. In my opinion Airbus build better planes than Boeing , as Airbus tend to build new aircraft from the drawing board and Boeing choose to over milk 1960's designed models like the 737 & 747 and Boeing have severely paid the price of this mistake with the 737 MAX.
Boy I doné goof! - 300 MILLION sterling, not 3000!!!!! Sorry all, Can't believe that one totally shot by me!
damn bogan
We won't hold it against you. This time....
Great videos!
I love the boeing 747-8 intercontinental aircraft
Damn it I was about to trade in my Mazda for an A380!
I can... Whilst your vids are really good, you have some hilarious flubs
Only 3000 pounds sterling? I woulda taken one.
Yep for sure! I can't believe I didn't notice! 2.30am publishing does that to a man! Sorry :)
Gosh what a deal even your local chav or road man why hangs out at McDonald’s could buy one
I'd buy a whole fleet of them!
@@kazansky22 Air Tom💀
The A380F just seems odd but I like the A380-1000. It would be the coolest looking plane. Great video there!
Yes
reminds me of the 707 with the 4 engines and the relatively long fuselage
@British Airways Boeing 747-436 agreed, but you can't tell me that it doesnt look good.
FedEx didn’t think so. They went as far as building two hangars at Memphis International for it. Airbus’s failure to deliver killed the order.
I would've loved to see at least the private a380 and the a380-1000. What a bummer.
Next time I suppose
a380 neo
Beautiful aircraft, sucks it was built way too late
Agree
Thats a great argument. had it been built in 1990 instead of 2001, we might have seen a very different world indeed. That being said, 1990s was the gulf war and not the time for double decker planes!
Found And Explained Indeed, even though I prefer Boeing. I would’ve loved to have seen the A380 have its great years
Its a big whale, whats so beautiful about it? Technological beauty? Yes, but not visually 😂
@@manganvbg90 It's the biggest aircraft, and some people like it. I agree tho I think the design is odd.
favourite variant? For sure the A380-1000. Finally proportions would match. But since it didn't get to be - I stay with my beloved 747-8i. - And don't mind the little discount you gave on the ACJ380. Discounts are an industry standard and you gave many of us a good little laugh/smile. Hang loose!
:) I'm sure if Emirates asked for an A380 for 3k pounds they would have got it!
It is sad to see unique and beautiful airplanes disappear, only to be replaced by generic 2-engines-on-wings designs.
Goodnight sweet prince
I will miss being in the middle of 4 engines in the middle of the ocean
These are fantastic mate, keep up the good work!
Wonderful as all your videos, do you have by any chance the complete clip or video of the Pan Am 747SP, there.
My favorite variant was the A380 plus
A380 Neo 1000 was always my absolute aviation dream, and right now I really hope it will become a reality in the coming years. This godlike plane is a Phoenix, it will come back for sure 😍😎👌🦾🙏🙏
CL-1201:Exists
Emirates:GIVE ME THAT BIG BEAUTY
I love the look of that plane, it’s so round and it just works
I love this planes
Nice job, I will love to build the A380-800
My favorite was the fancy one. That would’ve been a kick ass airplane.
Imagine the parties you would invite me to!
I hope this bus with wings continues flying, if only to enhance the reputation and beauty of the 747.
Man that’s a depressing video. I love that aircraft so much and always tried to book tickets on it whenever flying to Asia. It’s amazing to think there’s not enough demand for planes to carry so many passengers. Even before the pandemic. Such a shame to see it being phased out already by some airlines. Maybe one day the demand for air travel will increase to such an extent that modern airports need the A380 again.
My favorite airbus plane is the airbus a380-900
The only reason I didn't like the A380-800 was because it really looked too short. Like 747SP
Alas, failure of A380 program had proven Boeing Market was correct with canceling numerous 747 variants. Even the 747-8 was launched with the freighter version first before the passenger version.
0:21 Top 10 moments shot before disaster
The configurable idea is actually really cool but would it feasible? Most likely not.
Why isn't there a combi version? Upper deck passenger and lower deck cargo
Honestly that’s a great question
@@FoundAndExplained yeah
I taught of it too
It is hard to find sufficient passengers and sufficient freight for the same city pairs at the same time. Also, any floor that carries cargo has to be heavily strengthened and this plane was already overweight.
The A380 has 3 decks. The upper one, middle one and the lower deck. The upper and middle decks carry passengers while the Lower deck is for cargo. Hope your question is answered.
There is indeed one, operated by HiFly as seen in a few clips in the video. Sadly, HiFly announced that they will be retiring their one and only A380C, and also their only A380 :'(
747 1968-Present, 57 years so far. A380 2007-2020, 13 years. End of story! Sad to see such a great aircraft, the A380 retired far too long before its time
I like B787 and all the A380 models, which includes B747-8
Simple explanation Unprofitable Under The Best Of Circumstances !
Is there more information on the private A380 concept? I'd love to see how they'd propose to lay it all out, if it was bought by royalty how would the area for all of the staff be equipped (top floor for the royals, lower level for staff seating), could armored cars be transported in the cargo hold or too much weight?
The sad thing is many airlines are discontinuing the aircraft and I’d never even flown in one and i know i can’t
You might still be able to. Although production has ceased, it might continue to serve for years still.
Not many people no a smaller version was also being proposed.i wish I taken a photo of it .
The plane is a beautiful plane! It sucks to see it go at a rapid rate!
A380 concept: A380-400; just the A380 with smaller wings and can carry 550 passengers in an all economy configuration. Designed to land at smaller airports
2min05sec of the video shows a picture on the screen a system that calculates the A380's Range Capacity
3,851 Nautical Miles and 7,153 Kilometers
Is there on any website to calculate?
I wanted to do the calculation for other Airbus aircraft
Where could I find it?
When asked by the USAF, Airbus refused to compete in the AF 1 replacement program. Thus the 747-8 got that role.
Yes because one of the requirements was to be built in the US. It wasn’t viable economically
Americans are so patriotic & would not have a foreign co. build a AF1
Airbus didn't look forward to handing over blueprints to the Pentagon, fearing they would somehow find their way to Boeing.
not refused. Its the US that cannot accept an European jet.
@@pigmoonk2545 that's not true, they can, we choose not to
You make amazing videos and I really think you deserve more support! Thanks!!!
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Thank you. Love your channel!
Hope you stick around and sub ! :)
What we need is a small private jet we can park in our garage and fly any where in the world that we can afford. Screw standing for hours at major airports and getting stripe down to learn if we are carrying a longer paper clip.
Oh my God! My wife's new bottle of facial cream was a gram over, inspector kept that for his wife.
A380-1000 would be a good alternative to the 747 for those pilgrimage flights to Saudi Arabia from places with many pilgrims such as Malaysia and Indonesia.
300 Pounds fir a Private A380, I might buy a couple at that price
I loved every model
this video is great, and so is the animation
Always a fan of your comments Jovi! See you on the next livestream :)
@@FoundAndExplained haha thanks! I will attend every stream!
£3,000 for a private a380, I'd buy one
even if you get one for free, you can't afford to keep it.
unless you have a big land with large open space where you can park this giant craft, you will have to rent space to keep this thing, which would run at least tens of thousands of dollars each month.
and even if you have such land, you can't afford to move the craft there, from some airport where it is currently sitting.
that transportation will cost you almost a million dollars, depending on the location of your land.
i cant even take my years salary and fill the fuel tank once
Way back when the global test flight was underway part of the sales pitch apparently was to unbolt the nose and insert a new section to allow the upgrade for more passengers as a future upgrade. That would have been interesting but apparently planned.
The aircraft Godzilla would buy a ticket to ride in.
cargo containers and systems were put in place based on the designs of aircraft of the period and the Queen set the rules that everyone had to play by. The Queen was designed for the cargo game from day ! so of course it is best suited to the role as Airbus was trying to convert passenger designs to freighter rules, not so easy to do despite a great BIG plane to work with
4:07 why will the US allow Europe to build a plane for it's president? I can bet my last dollar that this is an absolute lie.
Really liking this video! The intro is super smooth now, and the lack of echo is definitely appreciated. Your voice is a little quiet in comparison to the music, but it wasn't terribly so.
Awesome, thank you! I'll fix up the voice a bit more for the next one :)
I'm getting better on each video and I think this one is my best yet. Well... till this weekend ;)
I'm not even close to being an aviation expert, but I always wondered if this otherwise impressive aircraft would ever really be a commercial success.
cool video
Too heavy and expensive, old design, old materials, old mentality; plus they took their sweet time, spending a lot of money for a mediocre design, and never was a a competitor to the latest 747, improved in everyway; Mediocre in everyway, it should had 3 engines only, wouldn't work as a cargo, just really bad, and spent all that money for a late and mediocre outdated result? wow, I'm surprised this wasn't called a scam
The freighter was never to going to work. It can't handle the out sized cargo that the 747 freighters can due to the 380s lack of nose door
Forgive me if this is a stupid question but could they not have done a tail ramp like the an 124?
@@waleedmahmood863 i know im very very late but, yeah, its not a bad idea
A380F should just get 4 GE90's🤣
How many seats would there be in the Airbus A380-1000?
1000
I would like all of the A380 variant. It just huge and massive and i liked it.
Wish they’d at least made the A380plus winglets, they look so much better.
0:20 TRAFFIC. CLIMB. CLIMB. CLIMB.
Continue to do such videos. Thanks
There never would have been an Airforce 1 it would have been a security issue disaster to use a European plane, also the freighter version was terrible, having a plane that large loading through the side doors is ridiculous.
Very good, visually and content. Beautiful voice too, but at times, your words are pronounced softer at the end of a sentence - not audible enough. For the rest: 10/10.
Oh, every trip I flew on the A380 was memorable and nice. Too bad it wasn’t a financial success. All the best with your channel! Big hugs from South Africa!
I’ll work better on the sound mix
Surely using a scimitar to skim anything is overkill.
Nice
Very disappointing other models weren’t made would have love to see the neo or plus in a fed ex livery
5:35 i see singapore airlines A380-1000
That is A380-800 dude
Hi Found and Explained. I got recommended your channel by the RUclips algorithm, probably because I watch a lot of aviation channels. So far I've really liked the 10 or so of your videos that I've seen but to be honest, I think your channel is gonna get dwarfed by channels like Wendover Productions (that often features plane videos), Curious Droid, etc. It would be cool though if you collaborated or merged with a channel like Mustard which has great content but only releases a video about once a month. Your video style and topics might also blend well with 2bit aviation (which seems to have renamed its channel Project Da Vinci).
A-380, I think is still the best!!!
they are failure tho...
@@panzerkampfwagenivausfuhru7411 economical failure, but a technogical marvel
maybe to compensate for the high empty weight the a380f should use the ge90 engine with higher landing gear
Would have never been considered for Air force 1, America would never have considered not using an American built plane for that purpose!
They definitely considered it, but it was nixed from consideration after national security concerns and political ramifications became apparent.
As thepian302 said. Yes it very much was considered for AF1 .
Globalism was promising a great future in the '90s.
I think Europeans were anticipating an uplift in per capita income especially for China and India (over 3 billion people in total). That would trigger a sizable increase in Intercontinental Travel which A380 is built for. That would require dozens of A380s in service, which did not realize.
Another factor, security measures imposed by the US has destroyed the airlines, air travel became a torture. Tighter visa requirements also added to reduction in number of passengers in Intercontinental Travel.
A380 is a technological marvel and will come back in an Improved more efficient version.
Salute to those Engineers, Policy Makers, Managers and Bean Counters who created the A380.
Rumors for military use as A380 MRTT exists. Flying hospitals and tankers
rip I once saw a cargo version of the a380
The a380 frame doesn’t make sense for cargo travel
My favorite a380 is...
A380-800 aka normal version lol
The classic!
Hey you
Id choose the A380-1000
To make a long explanation short ! It just was not economically feasible for anyone but the top 1% on the economic spectrum !
The engines it needed to make it economical feasible just was two far away in developmental terms.
Great video but the music is a bit too loud at some part :)
Would a A380 combi be a better economical solution?
Engaging yet eloquent
Both the king and queen have/are falling going to miss them never got to fly on one
NOTHING WILL EVER TOUCH THE A350!!!!
HOPEFULLY THE A350 NEO WILL MAKE PRODUCTION!
The "neo" improvements are already stock in the A350 program. The A320 neo and A330 neo are modernizations to bring fuel economy at least close to A350 and A220 standards.
@@Exodon2020 Yes thats correct... What I was saying is that I can't wait to see the A350 NEO up close. I work with the A330 NEO daily. Its a Bad A$$ Jet!!!! But the A350 Trumps them all!!!
(As for the Airbus line goes)
my favorite variant is A380plus
Please 😭😭😭😭😭😭make video on the history and future of jet engine 😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏
Is possible to just put two engines for Airbus A-380 instead of four as long as It is powerful enough??
Theoretically maybe
but youd need them to be significantly more powerfull than any we have, as well as redesign the plane's wings to support them and likely make it taller too
I did like the combo concept; especially where the passenger portion was easily reconfigurable. This would have become very convenient when the pandemic hit as they could configure it for more 1st class seating (to give more space between seats) and still carry plenty of freight (which possibly increased during the pandemic). Another interesting possibility of the reconfigurable design is the passengers could stay in those modules and the entire module is moved in and out of the plane. Don't know if they could do that for safety reasons, but it would solve a lot of the hassle of boarding and disembarking a plane. Hmm. Late arrivals could be an issue.
more space between seats would be money loss for airlines unless prices went way up...
My favorite is A380 plus
Lufthansa is planning on making the A380F a reality. Lufthansa has stated it wants to keep the A380 flying as long as possible but it means this in a cargo sense.
My reasoning is that Lufthansa wants a cargo version of an airliner that's locally produced (.e.g Airbus) but more than likely. We'll see some airlines purchase A380s that are being sold off by the big airlines if they can afford it. Just don't expect to see a RyanAir A380 or a EasyJet A380.
A380 plus
Private a380 is like a flying titanic
Who would of imagined a private a380
There’s one company, possibly in Israel that’s attempting this. Lot of cargo conversions going on there lol!
R u sure it is 3000 pounds🤔
hi
You mean 300 million euros.
I do it’s a mistake
Airbus A380F Cargo Version? Is See Need More Safety Without Disaster like Fire In board SwissAir 111
£3,000 ? I will order one tomorrow.
There is no such thing as a "tarmac" at an airport. You have a ramp, apron, pad, taxiway, runway, flight line, or gate. Tarmac is a building material, like concrete. You will never hear a pilot use that term.
Bella domanda !!!
I would turn one of those into a house or a small hotel...
With the A380 plus the aviation industry learnt that people dont want to be crammed like sardines in order to maximise the profit of airlines no matter how 'cheap' tickets became.
The problem was, Emirates were the only airline interested in a new A380 at that time, and they certainly were not interested in cramming more people into the same space. They just wanted the plane to burn less fuel and require less maintenance.
You know, I don't really see people make this comparison, but the A380 is a lot like Concorde in that for all of their great innovations, they were never really commercially successful or profitable, and they were both designed for a time in aviation history that their designers thought was gonna happen but never did.
Why get rid of such a safe aircraft???
It's useless they said and fuel hungry
No business case for it. No one is buying Super jumbos anymore and the A380's in service are not profitable so they are being phased out.
You always seem to forget the pandemic is one of the reasons the a380 did not sell more
The music drowns out the spoken word several times. Ended up giving up on the video rather than try and figure out what was being said. Would be better to have the music as a softer background track and not so loud.
Sure thing, i'm always looking to improve and if the music is too loud then thats a big problem. If you could know at what point there is a problem that would be great
It is a crying shame that the A380 is no longer wanted world wide as this aircraft is the most comfortable and noiseless passenger aircraft ever built. It is by far my favorite aircraft to fly on.
In my opinion Airbus build better planes than Boeing , as Airbus tend to build new aircraft from the drawing board and Boeing choose to over milk 1960's designed models like the 737 & 747 and Boeing have severely paid the price of this mistake with the 737 MAX.
You just answered your own question in that title. Lol