A delay I'm afraid
Reuters has this ......
April 4, 2005
The maiden flight of Airbus new aircraft, the A380, will be delayed, German newspaper Handelsblatt reported on Monday.
The paper quoted a company spokeswoman saying that pilots would test the plane this week.
EADS's co-head Rainer Hertrich said in March the maiden flight was originally scheduled for the start of April.
After the system and mechanical tests, acceleration and braking tests on the runway would be held prior to the first flight, Handelsblatt said, adding that experts felt it would take at least two more weeks for these tests to be done.
The paper said the spokeswoman did not give a fresh launch date for the aircraft. It quoted her saying that it was immaterial whether the aircraft had its first flight on April 10, 15 or 23 given it was to be sold the next 35 years.
(Reuters)