A380 - combined threads

[ExSimGuy]

Noisy Aircraft

As a long-not-aviator, but a quite old member of this forum, I hope Danny will forgive me (if not, I'm banned )

Maybe he had a bad flight or had a Boing (or Bus - not sure which he flies) bump into him this morning - but it's his site and he has more entitlement to comment that the rest of us - AND to move to Spotters Corner!!

Whichever camp you belong to, the 380 is a heck of a piece of engineering. The Conc made a lot of noise, but we got usedto it (some even loved it - and I used to live on the A4,right beside LHR right runway!)

Have any of the detrators ever stood behind a 727 (pre-"hush-kit" taxiing?? - any modern high-bypass fan-jet has to be quieter than that (similar story with BAC 1-11 and Trident, but maybe not quite so much)

Evac? - well, it has to prove itself and we'll have to wait and see, but I doubt if 'Bus would have gone this far and spent as much money if they weren't sure it would qualify!

Personally, I'm quite looking forward to the first time I get to fly from RUH or BAH to LHR on this remarkable aircraft. Surely we heard all these arguments decades ago when the 747 first debued?

And if the DeamLiner gets on the route, I'll be very interested in that too