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Air France A380 over Greenland on Sep 30th: Fan and engine inlet separated

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Re: Air France A380 over Greenland on Sep 30th: Fan and engine inlet separated

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I meant to say "cruise", if that makes more sense.

If it is any consolation, I knew what you meant. Otherwise, you'd probably have said something like glide and the glide ratio of the big planes isn't very good. Out of curiosity, I just checked for the A380 and the best guess is 15:1, so it does glide better than I expected, but still not that far. Google tells me that it'd glide ~130 miles if it had a starting altitude of 45,000'. That's better than I expected.

It's been done in real life for the A330. 120 km from a starting altitude of 10 km to Lajes Airbase in the Azores. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236

Re: Air France A380 over Greenland on Sep 30th: Fan and engine inlet separated

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post #38

Sigh. The thing I miss about the internet in 1995 is that not everyone was an "aviation expert".

Sigh. The thing I miss about the internet in 1995 is that not everyone was signing up to a community just to spread negativity.

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