Merged: SIA Inaugural A380 Flight to Sydney
 

Any yarns or photos?

Wow!
 

Have a look at the SingAir website....the level of comfort available is outstanding.

For those willing to pay $10k to get to Singapore it is. For those in the back, an extra inch in the width, the same pitch and an extra 100 people in line for the toilet. Hardly surpirising though, those that were forecasting better times for the economy passenger were dreaming.

Here's a video of its take-off from Singapore.

I'm waiting for the video of the honey cart unloading!!!:yuk:


"Surf's up!!!":}

One ultra keen type paid $120,000 for a seat. Hope this is not seen as an omen for the future.

Nice Touch ....

SQ380

Look forward to the arrival pics in SYD - hope the WX holds out

Could not imagine doing the ILSPRM beside it ...:}:}

Don't know about the distance covered but from the video timer, it's about 55 seconds ground roll to airborne, exactly the same as a 707 out of Paya Lebar. Changi though, doesn't have the second 'hump' like Paya Lebar that fell away and not surprisingly, one became airborne.

tipsy:ok:

Not knowing the V1 etc etc.....but a quick estimate and menta maths tells me that may have been around 2000m used up. Plenty more to go!!!

J

Looks like it used a similar distance floating down runway trying to milk a greaser in SYD! :hmm:

Did anyone else notice that they used reverse thrust on the inboards only? Is that an Airbus thing or did they operate the first ever service with an MEL?

SQ380
 

Looks like the NBR 1 T/R failed to deploy on landing SYD.:D
S CCT

Yeah noticed it on the News footage.

The more things change, the more they stay the same..... :ooh:
Thank God for LAME's :O
( psst.. hay, anyone got a stapler):eek:
S CCT

IIRC no T/Revs on the O/B engines.

The A380 definitely has thrust reversers on the two inboards only.

And wrt to widening rwys, the thing has to take off also, you know. Having the two big outboard donks hanging over the grass is a sure fire way to FOD them....

Stayed back to watch the beast land tonight, is it just me, or is that one boring aeroplane? Just doesn't seem to have any character, although maybe it was the dated Singapore paint scheme...;)

Gee that was clever and cool! I wonder how much some bright marketing expert was paid to come up with that idea? ;)

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! :eek: 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 Airbus 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).