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"showers" - for real? Surely not, that's beyond absurd.
'Emirates A380 Shower Spa': https://www.emirates.com/english/experience/our-fleet/a380/ First class passengers get 30 minutes, including 5 minutes of running water. You can see videos of it on YouTube.
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> one of best balanced planes out there Airliner design is regulated for stability for passenger flight on IFR approaches. So they're all pretty smooth. (The reason for the 737 MAX MCAS system was to meet those requirements, although they failed in that case.) All planes can glide if the wings are attached, and any essential electricity is available for control (if necessary.) A corollary of "all planes glide" is tha…
All planes can glide, but not to the same degree. The glide ratio, or the ratio between distance travelled per distance dropped, varies wildly between planes. A purpose built glider has a glide ratio of about 60:1, so it could travel 60mi while only losing 1mi of altitude, while a Cessna 172 has a glide ratio of 9. Large passenger aircraft have glide ratios inbetween, with a 737 having a ratio of 17. On the other ext…
Which made this all the more impressive:
https://theaviationist.com/2014/09/15/f-15-lands-with-one-wi...
However Airbus was just wrong on the business side. It was the wrong plane built with old technology at the wrong time.
It’s also not clear why Airbus didn’t focus more on a freight version. The Boeing 747 is rarely used as a passenger plane anymore but Boeing realized these aircraft would have a second life as freighters hence why the nose section is as such (you can chop off the nose and put a giant door there for cargo). The 747 will continue as a freighter for many years to come.
Sadly it’s likely that many of the currently grounded A380s will never take off again.
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> one of best balanced planes out there Airliner design is regulated for stability for passenger flight on IFR approaches. So they're all pretty smooth. (The reason for the 737 MAX MCAS system was to meet those requirements, although they failed in that case.) All planes can glide if the wings are attached, and any essential electricity is available for control (if necessary.) A corollary of "all planes glide" is tha…
All planes can glide, but not to the same degree. The glide ratio, or the ratio between distance travelled per distance dropped, varies wildly between planes. A purpose built glider has a glide ratio of about 60:1, so it could travel 60mi while only losing 1mi of altitude, while a Cessna 172 has a glide ratio of 9. Large passenger aircraft have glide ratios inbetween, with a 737 having a ratio of 17. On the other ext…
*came together. The A380 program is nearly over. The most incredible passenger plane in the sky. Comfortable for 16+ hours. I hope they can archive the blueprints for it well enough to consider building it again in the future.
Why rebuild it when you can design a better plan?
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All planes can glide, but not to the same degree. The glide ratio, or the ratio between distance travelled per distance dropped, varies wildly between planes. A purpose built glider has a glide ratio of about 60:1, so it could travel 60mi while only losing 1mi of altitude, while a Cessna 172 has a glide ratio of 9. Large passenger aircraft have glide ratios inbetween, with a 737 having a ratio of 17. On the other ext…
> On the other extreme end you have military fighter planes, which tend to more closely resemble well propelled un-aerodynamic objects once their engines give out. Which made this all the more impressive: https://theaviationist.com/2014/09/15/f-15-lands-with-one-wi...
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> than for real business reasons Any explanations for that? Large airliners was a monopoly by Boeing, Airbus obviously wanted to cut a part of that market.
>Any explanations for that? A380 isn't profitable.
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All planes can glide, but not to the same degree. The glide ratio, or the ratio between distance travelled per distance dropped, varies wildly between planes. A purpose built glider has a glide ratio of about 60:1, so it could travel 60mi while only losing 1mi of altitude, while a Cessna 172 has a glide ratio of 9. Large passenger aircraft have glide ratios inbetween, with a 737 having a ratio of 17. On the other ext…
It is worth pointing out that many military aircraft are made to be unstable by design. Unpowered or underpowered Commercial aircraft want to glide, with aerodynamic resisting change of course for safety and ease of use. On the other hand, aerodynamics of military combat aircraft operate in unstable equilibrium to encourage greater maneuverability.
Not a huge Airbus fan in general real but the A380 was a pleasure to fly. However Airbus was just wrong on the business side. It was the wrong plane built with old technology at the wrong time. It’s also not clear why Airbus didn’t focus more on a freight version. The Boeing 747 is rarely used as a passenger plane anymore but Boeing realized these aircraft would have a second life as freighters hence why the nose sec…
A380s also have a greater volume than a 747 but not a radically higher carrying capacity. A 747-8I (passenger variant) has a cargo capacity of 76t vs 84t for an A380. Numbers from wikipedia, excluding the freighter variant of the 748 as it's not comparing like with like. This means that there could be some cases where transporting bulky low density items would be much superior on a A380 freighter but there's not a clear cut case for it in the market.
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I met an Airbus test pilot once. Among other stories he told me that the A380 is one of best balanced planes out there, and apparently a joy to fly. He said even without engines he could easily land it like a glider. Now, I can't really verify what he said, but he seemed sincere. Having travelled in the A380 as passenger, I will sure miss it.
> one of best balanced planes out there Airliner design is regulated for stability for passenger flight on IFR approaches. So they're all pretty smooth. (The reason for the 737 MAX MCAS system was to meet those requirements, although they failed in that case.) All planes can glide if the wings are attached, and any essential electricity is available for control (if necessary.) A corollary of "all planes glide" is tha…
And assuming the wings haven’t lost their lift due to ice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Eagle_Flight_4184
Planes can glide, but there’s still lots of ways to drive one straight into the ground.