I’ve flown on a huge number of passenger aircraft and the A380 is without doubt the most comfortable, extremely quiet, flys smoothly through turbulence like nothing else. What a shame the current economics caused by a number of factors that could never have been foreseen have halted production. Thankfully with Emirates having over 100 and other airlines now bringing theirs back from various parking graveyards I think we will see this beauty in the air for the next 20 years.
@@theodorethynes5883 cool didn't know about the conversations but figured if the 747 as both versions thin airbus would eventually build one/or one would exist eventually
Watching this for the first time way into the future in Jan 2023 after seeing these massive Big Birds flying from most UK airports on livefeeds, I am so in awe of them, enthralled, how they even manage to get off the ground let alone fly! Superb video from beginning to end. Well done cataloguing its progress and thank you for sharing it with us all. This newbie o.a.p lady avigeek thoroughly enjoyed it! Xx 🙂😁🥰
I’ve been flying since I was 2 years old and have traveled in just about every kind of aircraft there is commercial, military and private. To this day my absolute favourite is the 747 wide body with the original seating arrangement.
The A380 is the most comfortable and reliable, quiet lounge in the air to fly in, I love it, my longest flight was Lufthansa, Frankfurt to Narita, Japan, and back, arrived ready for anything, each way. Beautiful stunning well equipped aircraft. Perfect for long flights.
Once I flew on an A380, I tried to arrange my schedule to always fly on the A380. I am sad it has been discontinued, but I understand and expect great new flying machines from Airbus and Boeing. This video is a remarkable piece of film. The size of the job of building the A380 is captured well.
I witnessed this completely unmarked 'monster' during its flight trials coming into Perpignan Rivsaltes Airport performing a number of 'touch-and-goes', before it finally departed. It came in so low to the A900 road which runs alongside the airport, almost touching the perimeter fence on its final descent, before lifting off again for another 'go around' and then departed back to home base (Toulouse). I have some staggering photos as a memory of this auspicious occasion, some so close you could almost touch the undercarriage as it came in !!!
Europe for the win. The combined knowledge embodied in the European aerospace community is unmatched. The real value is with the engineering teams & dedicated skilled manufacturing personel, in Hamburg, Wales, Spain, and of course Toulouse.
They don’t really build in the middle of nowhere. All the production sites in Toulouse France, Spain, UK, Germany are all long established Aero manufacturing partner facilities thru Airbus.
A beautiful aircraft loved by many travellers and probably crew. An enjoyable smooth and safe experience when airborne. My thanks to the designers and Airbus for the pleasant flights I've had. I started flying with piston engined, then turbo prop planes. I think barring some major global upheavals this wonderful machine will be flying for decades.
An amazing project for an amazing aircraft. Unfortunately the market is moving in other direction and it's not compatetive anymore, same destiny for the Queen B747. I could just say that the decision to produce the A380 in Toulouse was idiotic, if they estabilished the production site, in an industrial area in an Atlantic port (i.e. Saint-Nazaire) they could save an huge amount of money in logistic and keep the prices more competitive. But we know this kind of decision are moved by political rather than by technical and business evaluation.
It's still unclear exactly how much Airbus lost on every one of the 254 they built before halting production. But one thing is clear, John Leahy became very wealthy regardless, and would probably prefer you not to watch this video, lol.
Didn’t he say, “This aircraft cannot fail.” As in because of the amount of money that has been invested failure is not an option. He was not saying it cannot fail as in the Titanic cannot sink. I think if you give it a second go you will understand where I am coming from. He said they have invested to much to just fail.
@@BobSmith-sc6dq source? The project was able to break before the end of production I thought. Important to note is that the Dreamliner didn’t break even until 1000 were sold so there are huge cost differences for what was much more innovative and iconic aircraft (A380)
@Horizon301 they started making a per aircraft profit near the end (for the majority they took a loss) - that's no where near the 25 billion development cost.
37:08 “... delivery note signed. " Well, at least someone was at home, and awake. I guess an A380 fuselage isn't something you can leave under the back porch if no-one answers the door.
As aircraft congestion builds again with the lifting of covid clampdowns the same argument will arise that led to the belief that large passenger carrying aircraft are needed. The A380 had unfortunately fell into various traps. The logistics and build costs were huge as a result of petty political requirements and the airlines not sticking to the plan of working together for the long term good of future large scale aircraft being needed. Using smaller cheaper to run aircraft is an easy quick fix but in the long term, it is not sustainable. Airbus took the gamble that airlines would be reasonable buiness people only to find out the most are run by sharks!
Incidentally the doors and the wheels must be able to drop under their own weight with potentially tremendous wind scenario crosswinds everything possible..
just flew on an a380 from san francisco to london heathrow. smoothest buttery landing due to its massive ground effect. but it wallowed like a big boat in a storm during 2hrs of turbulence and made me sick. also it lacks the increased cabin pressurization like 787 or a350 so not comfy.
@@soilentgreen7 yeah I got slagged off for saying nothing wrong with being gay just stop trying to prove it and be a human being. People were not happy with that comment. Still would have liked to see an a380 in their colours
Incidentally when they caught bin laden they built a duplicate compound with the high walls the 12 foot high walls... Again and again they tested their procedure... Mock run on the mission... With so many extraneous people watching this and knowing beforehand.. needing to know status stretched to the limit... Possible moles.... When they got there to do it somehow air pressure was very anomalous... The copter almost crashed actually did tell right up against wall just barely not striking... Could they have for known this mission... And had jet engine somehow pushing air pressure up in that compound surreptitiously from somewhere... Possibly firing it directly at that helicopter.
It's an incredible achievement no doubt. I feel that its basic design though played a role in its commercial failure. Ultimately, it could not overcome extremely capable and reliable aircraft chiefly the 777-300ER. This video repeats the fib that the 747 survived because it had no competitors. This is simply not true. Not in a reality where Boeing has built 20 different versions of the 747; there has been just one version of the A380. Boeing continuously improved their institution of aviation, and it outlived every competitor thrown at it - and seemed to be ahead of time for a while. The world changed though, and all good things come to an end.
@@sharoncassell9358 There's a special success ingredient missing from the A380. It's technically impressive for the sake of being technically impressive without matching that achievement to the market. The 747 had it - product flexibility and the ability to keep absorbing the march of technology in order to stay relevant. Just look at the roles the 747 took on. On the 777-300ER, Boeing demonstrated a product that lined up technical prowess, super reliability, efficiency, capability and regulatory (ETOPs) requirements to corner its market segment right at the sweet spot, with sales of nearly 840 units.
now it's a dream most who have not been on this plane will regret it is shame we did not get the chance to step on this plane to see a seat in this plane those who did enjoy the flight
Seriously that engine is the most important thing to keep company afloat.. so to speak ten or twenty fan blade test multiple breakage do to bird strikes etc
With airlines choosing the more passenger Convenient point to point system over the hub and spoke model this plane was designed for kind of doomed the program and is the reason it wasn’t profitable.
"As of December 2021, the global A380 fleet had completed more than 800,000 flights over 7.3 million block hours with no fatalities and no hull losses." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380
Love with the evac thay all do a warm up on a moc up that dose not cove a full one to one scale of the floor of the a380 Also who the fuck has time to do jumping jack before evac of a plane 😒
1:0:45, plans are prepared in months but goes for a six once the first bullet is fired, but there is , of course a difference between a battle field and engineering factory
Well things didn't end up working out for the 380 or Airbus. "Make it really big" was it's ultimate failure. It was already going against market trends when it was being designed.
Didn't a fan blade escape the engine of a Quantis A380 and put a hole in the wing which cut control equipment and caused a fuel leak. kind of a waste of money testing them to destruction when its going to happen any way. They haven't a great lifespan compared to the 747 they have been breaking them up in Shannon Ireland for a while now.
Titanium toilet parts..? Plumber here.. how many toilets do they have on that thing? Better to tell the people not to eat too much.. and then they won't need to bring so much food aboard... And don't give them too much toilet paper..." Is anyone on board a plumber".... Man stands up and says "here you can use my paper cup like a a plunger"
The Americans designed and built the 747 all by themselves but Airbus had to get 4 countries to design and build the A 380 .Boeing 747 -1254 Airbus A 380 - 252
I hope you realize how many subcontractors Boeing uses for the 747, many of which are European. Airbus has planes with GE engines, Boeing had planes with Rolls Royce engines, etc. Guess who designed the landing gear for the 787 (and most of Boeings planes) - Messier-Dowty, a French company. 🤦♂️ You also have to remember that France is smaller than Texas, so when you say “Americans” and “all by themselves” you’re talking about a VASTLY larger country. The Airbus consortium and its subcontractors are very similar in size to Boeing domestic and foreign combined subcontractors for any given aircraft. I wouldn’t get too cocky either - Boeing is now HOW far behind schedule and over budget for the Starliner? A relatively small low earth orbit capsule for the ISS. Airbus designed and flew the VASTLY more complicated and larger Orion capsule for deep space lunar missions a decade ago, and it performed flawlessly during Artemis 1 last year. I’m an American btw, but it’s still important to be humble (and accurate) with info.
@@lukezhang3017 yes, I confused it with UA232. Regardless, the engine cowling should withstand both types of failure and not lead into an uncontrolled explosion which could (and did) damage other parts of the aircraft or the cabin itself.
@@captainzeppos Yes, that was a failure on rolls Royce's part. And I think both of them were the same failure, of the turbine. Just one was fatigue(UA232) and the other was because of an oil leak (qf32).
it’s extremely ungainly in landing and a fortune to operate. the only real feasible routes to make any money are ones that will guarantee a full passenger load going to and from places like Sydney to London or Singapore to Frankfurt
@@soilentgreen7 my being an american has nothing to do with it. o have flown comfortably on the A320 many times.. i have zero problems with Airbus. I was actually looking forward to seeing how the A380 ended up coming out as a passenger plane.
What an unrealistic evacuationslide test. 1. Most of this volunteers looked rather in good shape and normal posture. Not a real represantasing of real passengers?as pensioners, families with babies and kids, fat people,... 2. They do a stretching exercise to warm up? Not realistic because in most cases an evacuation like this happens after an accident in final approach, meaning that tired passengers were sitting in their seats for hours,... 3. Everybody is rather relaxed because they know they are safe. What about panic and low visibility due smoke, fire and toxic gasses in the cabine? In fact a worthless test
1) where the hell do you expect them to find 80 year old grandma's or 2 year old babies willing to volunteer for a dangerous test evacuation on an aircraft that's never been tested? 2) Yes. They are stretching to warm up. Because if they didn't, the company could be sued for malpractice, and the test wouldn't be very efficient if half the test subjects pulled a muscle or bashed their head open... 3) They're testing the equipment, not the humans. Did you want them to be sprayed with a fire hose while doing jumping jacks trying to dodge carbon monoxide clouds? Sounds more like an obstacle course than an evacuation slide test lol. Finally, if you think that was the only evacuation test to ever be performed on that aircraft, you might wanna rethink the amount of practical and theoretical testing done without Channel 4 cameras rolling...
You are correct about it being un-representative of real world conditions. However, this is a test of the slides design, and as an engineered test it has to be performed under controlled and quantifiable parameters. Such quantifiable parameters include a certain average weight, size, and phsical ability of the people testing the system. If the engineers at Goodrich do their job properly, they will include safety margins to acomodate for all sizes, shapes and weights of passangers. This is standard practice in the safety industry (automobile seat belts & air bags, fighter jet ejection systems, deep sea diving)
If you ever flew on an A380 you had to ask why they built such a monstrous airplane. The creaking was disconcerting. I am glad I experienced it for myself. I have no desire to ever get on one again.
That’s the first time I’ve ever heard of anybody flying on one who doesn’t wax lyrical about its quietness and stability. I’ve flown on maybe a dozen and never noticed any creaking. It’s a magnificent aircraft to fly on.
@@soilentgreen7 Were you in my A380 flight from JFK to Frankfurt in 2014 when the plane was creaking? Sort of like telling victims of plane crashes that planes do not crash because you have never experienced it. The plane does not hold a candle to the 747.
@@QatarVegan Have you read any of the reports concerning the cracks found on A380s? Forget the creaking that I heard. I do not believe in following crowds. Just because a million people like it does not mean there are no problems. When I flew on the A380 I wanted it to be a flawless experience. It wasn't and the creaking wasn't the worst thing about my 2 flights and why I will never fly on an A380 again.
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I’ve flown on a huge number of passenger aircraft and the A380 is without doubt the most comfortable, extremely quiet, flys smoothly through turbulence like nothing else. What a shame the current economics caused by a number of factors that could never have been foreseen have halted production. Thankfully with Emirates having over 100 and other airlines now bringing theirs back from various parking graveyards I think we will see this beauty in the air for the next 20 years.
UPS bought 10-20 of them to convert into freighters
@@theodorethynes5883 is that actually happening? I thought the idea of a freighter had died?
@@mogsyman no it’s not true
@@theodorethynes5883 cool didn't know about the conversations but figured if the 747 as both versions thin airbus would eventually build one/or one would exist eventually
@@theodorethynes5883 no they didn't, nice try
Yes a true marvel, no doubt I have been very fortunate to have flown on Qantas A380-800 many times. Summed up in one word WOW!
F-WWOW
Charles Champion... That's a hell of a name. You literally must do something very important to live up to it.
Watching this for the first time way into the future in Jan 2023 after seeing these massive Big Birds flying from most UK airports on livefeeds, I am so in awe of them, enthralled, how they even manage to get off the ground let alone fly! Superb video from beginning to end. Well done cataloguing its progress and thank you for sharing it with us all. This newbie o.a.p lady avigeek thoroughly enjoyed it! Xx 🙂😁🥰
I'd have cheered quite sheepishly too....what an awesome engineering marvel
Best part: at 1 hour almost exactly, buddy is cranking the torque wrench while wearing his suit. That's great.
I’ve been flying since I was 2 years old and have traveled in just about every kind of aircraft there is commercial, military and private. To this day my absolute favourite is the 747 wide body with the original seating arrangement.
Very Interesting and without any BS. Thanks
I always see the Emirates A380 here at Toronto pearson, and I'm always amazed by the sheer size of this colossal beast of an aircraft.
The A380 is the most comfortable and reliable, quiet lounge in the air to fly in, I love it, my longest flight was Lufthansa, Frankfurt to Narita, Japan, and back, arrived ready for anything, each way. Beautiful stunning well equipped aircraft. Perfect for long flights.
Once I flew on an A380, I tried to arrange my schedule to always fly on the A380. I am sad it has been discontinued, but I understand and expect great new flying machines from Airbus and Boeing. This video is a remarkable piece of film. The size of the job of building the A380 is captured well.
We're all pilots on here
They said they had to build 250 to break even. They made 254.
I witnessed this completely unmarked 'monster' during its flight trials coming into Perpignan Rivsaltes Airport performing a number of 'touch-and-goes', before it finally departed. It came in so low to the A900 road which runs alongside the airport, almost touching the perimeter fence on its final descent, before lifting off again for another 'go around' and then departed back to home base (Toulouse). I have some staggering photos as a memory of this auspicious occasion, some so close you could almost touch the undercarriage as it came in !!!
Europe for the win.
The combined knowledge embodied in the European aerospace community is unmatched.
The real value is with the engineering teams & dedicated skilled manufacturing personel, in Hamburg, Wales, Spain, and of course Toulouse.
USA for the win.
The 747 is the better looking airplane ✈️
@@85corolla no it isn't you biased little man
@@soilentgreen7 Oh here comes the ghetto personal attack comeback🤣 Get the fuck outta here kid and go play with your 1/64 scale model 380👍
747...still king of the skies
Crazy idea landing gear worm gear crank assist... Maybe even cable spinning crank to get past tuff spot . With appropriate reduction gears
Love the A380.
What blew my mind was how they build all their factories in the middle of nowhere.
They don’t really build in the middle of nowhere. All the production sites in Toulouse France, Spain, UK, Germany are all long established Aero manufacturing partner facilities thru Airbus.
Just find out about the colossal loses.
@@abeninan4017 sea-tac style under one roof looks cheaper plus more efficient and it's next to the main port-sea
A beautiful aircraft loved by many travellers and probably crew. An enjoyable smooth and safe experience when airborne. My thanks to the designers and Airbus for the pleasant flights I've had. I started flying with piston engined, then turbo prop planes. I think barring some major global upheavals this wonderful machine will be flying for decades.
An amazing project for an amazing aircraft. Unfortunately the market is moving in other direction and it's not compatetive anymore, same destiny for the Queen B747.
I could just say that the decision to produce the A380 in Toulouse was idiotic, if they estabilished the production site, in an industrial area in an Atlantic port (i.e. Saint-Nazaire) they could save an huge amount of money in logistic and keep the prices more competitive.
But we know this kind of decision are moved by political rather than by technical and business evaluation.
I am not sure if
Our world would be lost without machines
It's still unclear exactly how much Airbus lost on every one of the 254 they built before halting production. But one thing is clear, John Leahy became very wealthy regardless, and would probably prefer you not to watch this video, lol.
If Howard Hughes were alive he would have asked Airbus to hold his beer!!! 🤷♂️
He is a private entity. Airbus loses are footed by taxpayers.
The gamble never paid off. A beautiful plane in every way. Such a shame they are no longer produced.
@b52gf16c Better hurry!
@b52gf16c They said they needed 250 to break even, they built 239. I wouldn't call that a disaster.
My wife 🥰😍🇹🇭?
but will still be flying in to the 2030's
@@rickden8362 why hurry, they will be flying well in to the 2030's
EXCELENTE......
This aircraft cannot fail. And yet... With a mondial pandemic and some others economic factors, this is indeed what happened.
Didn’t he say, “This aircraft cannot fail.” As in because of the amount of money that has been invested failure is not an option. He was not saying it cannot fail as in the Titanic cannot sink. I think if you give it a second go you will understand where I am coming from. He said they have invested to much to just fail.
@@SyriusStarMultimedia Yeah, and it did fail. Only 254 made, production terminated, and a loss of £25 billion to Airbus.
@@BobSmith-sc6dq source? The project was able to break before the end of production I thought. Important to note is that the Dreamliner didn’t break even until 1000 were sold so there are huge cost differences for what was much more innovative and iconic aircraft (A380)
@Horizon301 they started making a per aircraft profit near the end (for the majority they took a loss) - that's no where near the 25 billion development cost.
@@BobSmith-sc6dq it didn't fail as a masterpiece of engineering. Boeing fanboi are you
37:08 “... delivery note signed. " Well, at least someone was at home, and awake. I guess an A380 fuselage isn't something you can leave under the back porch if no-one answers the door.
Beautiful aircraft ❤❤work of art ❤❤❤❤
Great video
Magical bit of enginnering history! Shame Branson was in the program.
As aircraft congestion builds again with the lifting of covid clampdowns the same argument will arise that led to the belief that large passenger carrying aircraft are needed.
The A380 had unfortunately fell into various traps. The logistics and build costs were huge as a result of petty political requirements and the airlines not sticking to the plan of working together for the long term good of future large scale aircraft being needed. Using smaller cheaper to run aircraft is an easy quick fix but in the long term, it is not sustainable.
Airbus took the gamble that airlines would be reasonable buiness people only to find out the most are run by sharks!
what a shame that A380 production has already been shut down
It’s all COVID’s fault
and started scrapping
Incidentally the doors and the wheels must be able to drop under their own weight with potentially tremendous wind scenario crosswinds everything possible..
Four engines killed it. It's just that simple.
I rode one from Hong Kong to Portland. It was as stable as a house.
You definitely didn’t fly on an A380 to Portland directly; it’s airport probably doesn’t even have the capacity for such a large aircraft
just flew on an a380 from san francisco to london heathrow. smoothest buttery landing due to its massive ground effect. but it wallowed like a big boat in a storm during 2hrs of turbulence and made me sick. also it lacks the increased cabin pressurization like 787 or a350 so not comfy.
Would have loved to see virgin use the A380. First and business class would have been interesting
nah not now, have you seen their latest adverts, male pilots weraing skirts etc
@@soilentgreen7 yeah I got slagged off for saying nothing wrong with being gay just stop trying to prove it and be a human being. People were not happy with that comment. Still would have liked to see an a380 in their colours
Escape slides manufactured in Phoenix Arizona, landing gear manufactured in Toronto Canada, since when have both these countries been part of Europe?
Great information!
Incidentally when they caught bin laden they built a duplicate compound with the high walls the 12 foot high walls... Again and again they tested their procedure... Mock run on the mission... With so many extraneous people watching this and knowing beforehand.. needing to know status stretched to the limit... Possible moles.... When they got there to do it somehow air pressure was very anomalous... The copter almost crashed actually did tell right up against wall just barely not striking... Could they have for known this mission... And had jet engine somehow pushing air pressure up in that compound surreptitiously from somewhere... Possibly firing it directly at that helicopter.
An absolute marvel of engineering - 360p resolution!
Great plane, it's really sad that they've yet to turn a profit, still having to pay back the massive loans..
The A380 was definitely the new Queen Of The Skies ! 👍 Pity these aircraft never caught on, the way the French envisaged.
Never,ever! There is only ONE Queen of the Sky, and it is damned European!
That’s not true.
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he got to be a Sir" along with McCartney...kinda cheesy...does it mean anything?
It's an incredible achievement no doubt. I feel that its basic design though played a role in its commercial failure. Ultimately, it could not overcome extremely capable and reliable aircraft chiefly the 777-300ER.
This video repeats the fib that the 747 survived because it had no competitors. This is simply not true. Not in a reality where Boeing has built 20 different versions of the 747; there has been just one version of the A380. Boeing continuously improved their institution of aviation, and it outlived every competitor thrown at it - and seemed to be ahead of time for a while. The world changed though, and all good things come to an end.
Its still an engineering and mechanical feat. Like magic.
@@sharoncassell9358 There's a special success ingredient missing from the A380. It's technically impressive for the sake of being technically impressive without matching that achievement to the market.
The 747 had it - product flexibility and the ability to keep absorbing the march of technology in order to stay relevant. Just look at the roles the 747 took on.
On the 777-300ER, Boeing demonstrated a product that lined up technical prowess, super reliability, efficiency, capability and regulatory (ETOPs) requirements to corner its market segment right at the sweet spot, with sales of nearly 840 units.
now it's a dream most who have not been on this plane will regret it is shame we did not get the chance to step on this plane to see a seat in this plane those who did enjoy the flight
Incidentally I wonder is there a weight requirement for getting on that plane how about 800 ....250 to 300 pounders
The total fuel carried in the A380 weights more than a Boeing 767
Branson didn't buy it in the end
They are talking about rebooting production
Seriously that engine is the most important thing to keep company afloat.. so to speak ten or twenty fan blade test multiple breakage do to bird strikes etc
With airlines choosing the more passenger Convenient point to point system over the hub and spoke model this plane was designed for kind of doomed the program and is the reason it wasn’t profitable.
I witness this huge aircraft came to florida at Miami international airport
Now that's a big one! That's what she said!
They never thought it would be done so fast. 747 they made 1000 plus. This only 100 plus. It’s a shame. Great plane but just to big
Vanesha Prescilla 25.10.1999
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250 to break even and they made 254 minus 3 test aircraft.
Kick Ass Video !
Bigger is always the best options are in the long run.
Cents " sense" the best way to get Rich.
Transportation is one way to multiple your money.
"As of December 2021, the global A380 fleet had completed more than 800,000 flights over 7.3 million block hours with no fatalities and no hull losses." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380
MERRY CHRISTAMAS
There getting scrapped by the day now ,crazy
Music revealing the airplane goosebumps
Hell same Milwaukee drill to run cable driven hydraulic pumps on flaps also.
Love with the evac thay all do a warm up on a moc up that dose not cove a full one to one scale of the floor of the a380
Also who the fuck has time to do jumping jack before evac of a plane 😒
Humanity can do some amazing things but at the same time can do some stupid things too.
1:0:45, plans are prepared in months but goes for a six once the first bullet is fired, but there is , of course a difference between a battle field and engineering factory
greed drives this strange human society, whether it’s of money or innovation, greed has it all. We the poor humans 😂
Boeing could of done this...but they were smart enough not to..big plane...big problems
Nothing comes close to an a380 absolute beast of an aircraft
This is all very well. But when I flew on this plane I went to the loo and found no paper. Disgraceful. Plus on take off I dodnt like the noise.
Anyone know what the song is at around 55:16?
Wait a minute big Tesla car battery kept charged... totally separate wiring harness.. to run mechanically compressors for hydraulics
Well things didn't end up working out for the 380 or Airbus. "Make it really big" was it's ultimate failure. It was already going against market trends when it was being designed.
And this plane was a major failure, it’s an awesome plane and it’s huge and so cool, but it was a major failure
Didn't a fan blade escape the engine of a Quantis A380 and put a hole in the wing which cut control equipment and caused a fuel leak. kind of a waste of money testing them to destruction when its going to happen any way. They haven't a great lifespan compared to the 747 they have been breaking them up in Shannon Ireland for a while now.
another clueless comment, that has nothing to do with the lifespan of the airframe
Fully charged Milwaukee drill to turn that crank for landing gear why not.. plugged into "cigarette lighte"r to stay charged.. but shouldn't need to.
project coordinator ....
Titanium toilet parts..? Plumber here.. how many toilets do they have on that thing? Better to tell the people not to eat too much.. and then they won't need to bring so much food aboard... And don't give them too much toilet paper..." Is anyone on board a plumber".... Man stands up and says "here you can use my paper cup like a a plunger"
Its a lie, at the time the biggest aircraft was the antonov An 225
The Americans designed and built the 747 all by themselves but Airbus had to get 4 countries to design and build the A 380 .Boeing 747 -1254 Airbus A 380 - 252
I hope you realize how many subcontractors Boeing uses for the 747, many of which are European. Airbus has planes with GE engines, Boeing had planes with Rolls Royce engines, etc. Guess who designed the landing gear for the 787 (and most of Boeings planes) - Messier-Dowty, a French company. 🤦♂️
You also have to remember that France is smaller than Texas, so when you say “Americans” and “all by themselves” you’re talking about a VASTLY larger country. The Airbus consortium and its subcontractors are very similar in size to Boeing domestic and foreign combined subcontractors for any given aircraft.
I wouldn’t get too cocky either - Boeing is now HOW far behind schedule and over budget for the Starliner? A relatively small low earth orbit capsule for the ISS.
Airbus designed and flew the VASTLY more complicated and larger Orion capsule for deep space lunar missions a decade ago, and it performed flawlessly during Artemis 1 last year.
I’m an American btw, but it’s still important to be humble (and accurate) with info.
@@EstorilEm you are a very poor advertisement for an American and America .
White elephant...
This has nothing to do with engineering of the plane.
Thanks!
I love it and it will always will be in history! Even the 747 got kicked to the curb!
They both got kicked to the curb..
The 747 had a 50 year production run, approximately.
Big difference from A380
@@johnduffy532 yeah, I ment in a good way too
@@johnduffy532 50 year run of being a noisy boneshaker
@@soilentgreen7 "50 year run of being a noisy boneshaker" Please elaborate on this. I need the laughs your efforts will generate.
1:06:35 what about QF32…
qf32 was a turbine on the inside, not a fan blade.
@@lukezhang3017 yes, I confused it with UA232. Regardless, the engine cowling should withstand both types of failure and not lead into an uncontrolled explosion which could (and did) damage other parts of the aircraft or the cabin itself.
@@captainzeppos Yes, that was a failure on rolls Royce's part. And I think both of them were the same failure, of the turbine. Just one was fatigue(UA232) and the other was because of an oil leak (qf32).
@@lukezhang3017 not really a Rolls Royce failure, no need to be bitter because it didn't have GE's on it
@@soilentgreen7 well, no its actually because quality control
The most deceiving adventure of all time, a total commercial and technical failure. I miss the 747 jumbo jet and want it back!
Please explain to us how its a technical failure then when its an engineering masterpiece
your alarming narrative scares anybody to board this plane away
they built a plane for a dying market......
it’s extremely ungainly in landing and a fortune to operate.
the only real feasible routes to make any money are ones that will guarantee a full passenger load going to and from places like Sydney to London or Singapore to Frankfurt
oh what a surprise, an american who doesn't like it, well let me tell you this, its far nicer to fly on than ANY Boeing
UK to Dubai makes money you bellpiece
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@@soilentgreen7 my being an american has nothing to do with it.
o have flown comfortably on the A320 many times.. i have zero problems with Airbus. I was actually looking forward to seeing how the A380 ended up coming out as a passenger plane.
@@soilentgreen7 wow… aren’t you just the badly swollen and infected foreskin ?
What an unrealistic evacuationslide test.
1. Most of this volunteers looked rather in good shape and normal posture. Not a real represantasing of real passengers?as pensioners, families with babies and kids, fat people,...
2. They do a stretching exercise to warm up? Not realistic because in most cases an evacuation like this happens after an accident in final approach, meaning that tired passengers were sitting in their seats for hours,...
3. Everybody is rather relaxed because they know they are safe. What about panic and low visibility due smoke, fire and toxic gasses in the cabine?
In fact a worthless test
1) where the hell do you expect them to find 80 year old grandma's or 2 year old babies willing to volunteer for a dangerous test evacuation on an aircraft that's never been tested?
2) Yes. They are stretching to warm up. Because if they didn't, the company could be sued for malpractice, and the test wouldn't be very efficient if half the test subjects pulled a muscle or bashed their head open...
3) They're testing the equipment, not the humans. Did you want them to be sprayed with a fire hose while doing jumping jacks trying to dodge carbon monoxide clouds? Sounds more like an obstacle course than an evacuation slide test lol.
Finally, if you think that was the only evacuation test to ever be performed on that aircraft, you might wanna rethink the amount of practical and theoretical testing done without Channel 4 cameras rolling...
You are correct about it being un-representative of real world conditions. However, this is a test of the slides design, and as an engineered test it has to be performed under controlled and quantifiable parameters.
Such quantifiable parameters include a certain average weight, size, and phsical ability of the people testing the system.
If the engineers at Goodrich do their job properly, they will include safety margins to acomodate for all sizes, shapes and weights of passangers. This is standard practice in the safety industry (automobile seat belts & air bags, fighter jet ejection systems, deep sea diving)
The test was the strength of the slide.
More bs. I agree. Some passengers are old fat bad leg. They exaggerate how well the slide worked.
SE FOSSE REAL O N117 JÁ NÃO SE RIA TANTO......
Airbus is way better than Boeing
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it failed many went out of service. i flyed on board it many times and i thank god that i flew onboard it.
Every serviceable A380 on the planet is flying and totally booked out by airlines.
IT LOST... ONLY ONE AIRLINE COULD AFFORD IT !!!!
Resolution of 360 just unacceptable these days
And in the final analysis, the A380 lost money for airbus. If I were a European taxpayer, I'd be furious at the waste.
you didn't mind Biden leaving 88 Billion dollars worth of equipment in Afghanistan then
@@soilentgreen7 What an incredibly stupid response. Of course I object to Biden wasting. my money, too.
If you ever flew on an A380 you had to ask why they built such a monstrous airplane. The creaking was disconcerting. I am glad I experienced it for myself. I have no desire to ever get on one again.
That’s the first time I’ve ever heard of anybody flying on one who doesn’t wax lyrical about its quietness and stability. I’ve flown on maybe a dozen and never noticed any creaking. It’s a magnificent aircraft to fly on.
Then you've clearly never flown on one
@@soilentgreen7 Were you in my A380 flight from JFK to Frankfurt in 2014 when the plane was creaking? Sort of like telling victims of plane crashes that planes do not crash because you have never experienced it. The plane does not hold a candle to the 747.
@@QatarVegan Have you read any of the reports concerning the cracks found on A380s? Forget the creaking that I heard. I do not believe in following crowds. Just because a million people like it does not mean there are no problems. When I flew on the A380 I wanted it to be a flawless experience. It wasn't and the creaking wasn't the worst thing about my 2 flights and why I will never fly on an A380 again.
IT IS A FAILURE !!! AFTER 14 YEARS. ; DISCONTINUED
Cancelled production before the 747, never made a penny profit, just another EU waste of money
typical scot
@@soilentgreen7 ??