People,
A380 reverse is ONLY on the inboards, to prevent FOD from ingestion of stuff being kicked up by 1 & 4 blowing forwards.
Short_Circuit, re SACL widening pavements, well YSSY isn't the only airport into which the A380 will operate. Some of those 'orrible foreign places won't have done the widening such as SACL has done (what? SACL actually ploughing some $$ back into the airfield? Quell'horreur!
Don't let Mac Bank find out!)
Lots of photos on Airliners & Jetphotos of landing A380s and it's always only 2 & 3.
Howard Hughes,
No mate you're not alone. It's a big, functional (read; ugly) people-mover. The builder is not called Air
bus for nothing (and that is not meant to start a A-v-B debate or comments on their quality, I've ridden in some very well-put-together Mercedes public transport in my time).