A380 launch etc (Merged)
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We're all itching to say something positive- but we want to talk about the aircraft! We'll take or leave the interpretative dancing, but we haven't seen the plane properly!
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We're all itching to say something positive- but we want to talk about the aircraft! We'll take or leave the interpretative dancing, but we haven't seen the plane properly!
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Am way ticked to find that my company IT setup won't support any of the video ... and even SKY which had potential declared that I am not in the UK/RoI so couldn't watch there! grrrrrrrrrrrr just 'cos I work for a German company (in London!)!!! Oh well - guess I will see it on the news tonight. boohoo
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Well I watched Sky News for 1 1/2 hrs and then gave up .... while I'm prepared to accept the style of presentation in this modern age, I would have thought they could at least have shown us the Aircraft at some stage 
...... even just a quick glimpse of the whole xxxxxxxxx thing with the lights on would have been ok ....
A $$$$$ up in my view ..... which I think is a shame because I'm a great supporter of the 380
...... even just a quick glimpse of the whole xxxxxxxxx thing with the lights on would have been ok .... A $$$$$ up in my view ..... which I think is a shame because I'm a great supporter of the 380
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Well I think everybody is going over the top about this. Why are we celebrating a 555 seat (in general usage) airliner? It's not that great an increase over the 747, particularly if you look at the Japanese domestic models. And we all know that the interior mock-ups are just that, mock-ups that will never happen (unless El Presidentie Bliar gets one for Blair Force One)
At least they've put money in the meter now though and the new colours do look nice. Bit too Euro White though
At least they've put money in the meter now though and the new colours do look nice. Bit too Euro White though
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Well that was the worst roll-out I have ever NOT seen! I stayed with it for an hour and twenty-five minutes while yet more speeches were made at the top of the steps and still no lights. It was horrendously boring and even RB looked bored.
Its big that's all you say about it up to now.
No imagination!
Its big that's all you say about it up to now.
No imagination!
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Wonderful, we should all be proud - mind you it took our American cousins to get the main lighting up of the aircraft, BBC and Sky missed it!! Oh well, they didn't seem to enthuse about it anyway
Can't wait to see it take to the air, (how do I get out of work). I am showing my age now but remember when Concorde flew for the first time, just one of those memories I shall never forget.
aa
Can't wait to see it take to the air, (how do I get out of work). I am showing my age now but remember when Concorde flew for the first time, just one of those memories I shall never forget.
aa
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Cracking quote from GMTV this moring (UK Breakfast News for the terminally stupid - which was why I was watching)
"Its so big Airbus arent sure it will actually fly!"
"Its so big Airbus arent sure it will actually fly!"
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eal401 - what a terrible comment - made more terrible by the fact that you may well be right. What sort of nation are we becoming when we run down things like this? It is an incredible machine. And as for GMTV's fatuous comment re "will it fly" - well that just proves once again the sheer pea-brained incompetence and slackness of what now passes for journalism in the UK.
Listen journo-morons. IT WILL FLY. No doubt at all. The only question really is whether it will hit the performance targets, and I would bet it won't be far off, given the experience in Airbus at these things......
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Listen journo-morons. IT WILL FLY. No doubt at all. The only question really is whether it will hit the performance targets, and I would bet it won't be far off, given the experience in Airbus at these things......
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Britboy,
Ya said it yerself son. In general usage. Let's compare like with like, shall we? 140 odd more passengers "in general usage". If you want to look at Japanese dom usage, then you'd be at, ooh, 850 or so so 250 more pax. Now tell us that ain't a big step!
Ya said it yerself son. In general usage. Let's compare like with like, shall we? 140 odd more passengers "in general usage". If you want to look at Japanese dom usage, then you'd be at, ooh, 850 or so so 250 more pax. Now tell us that ain't a big step!
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exactly my point
am 19 and the state of UK journalism is *forgive me mods* cr@p!!!
GMTV, for a start is just , IMO, morning junk with nothing actually interlecual happening, and that comment does not surprise me at all from them.
I was watching the EuroNews and it seamed pretty good comentary, i could not translate all the french but managed some of it.
BBC News (and in fact most of the news channels) had frozen out because it was raining...sky saying its my problem...grrr
The A380 looks a marvellous plane and i am sure it will fly, i cant wait to fly on it, never know, maybe even manage first class some day as well.
exactly my point
am 19 and the state of UK journalism is *forgive me mods* cr@p!!!
GMTV, for a start is just , IMO, morning junk with nothing actually interlecual happening, and that comment does not surprise me at all from them.
I was watching the EuroNews and it seamed pretty good comentary, i could not translate all the french but managed some of it.
BBC News (and in fact most of the news channels) had frozen out because it was raining...sky saying its my problem...grrr
The A380 looks a marvellous plane and i am sure it will fly, i cant wait to fly on it, never know, maybe even manage first class some day as well.
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panda-k-bear,
Fine, it's bigger, but I still don't see what the technological marvel is.
It's fly-by-wire. Well that's been around for a while. It's got composites. Well that's not exactly new either. It's very big. Wow, that's such a marvel that...
Yes, Europe has co-operated on it, but then again, we've been doing that with all the other Airbii for years.
I'm not being discouraging, I have no A or B preference, but I don't get what the big hoo-ha is. So it's big, la-de-dah... The AN-225 is bigger
(And the Japanese domestic version, who exactly has ordered that again???)
Fine, it's bigger, but I still don't see what the technological marvel is.
It's fly-by-wire. Well that's been around for a while. It's got composites. Well that's not exactly new either. It's very big. Wow, that's such a marvel that...
Yes, Europe has co-operated on it, but then again, we've been doing that with all the other Airbii for years.
I'm not being discouraging, I have no A or B preference, but I don't get what the big hoo-ha is. So it's big, la-de-dah... The AN-225 is bigger
(And the Japanese domestic version, who exactly has ordered that again???)
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When are they going to stop talking about bars, gyms and shops on board though?.
I see in "Flight" they are doing an evacuation test with 800+ pax. I bet the bean counters will be watching that one!.
Rgds Dr.I
I see in "Flight" they are doing an evacuation test with 800+ pax. I bet the bean counters will be watching that one!.
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What a waste of time !!
That idiot Branson grinning all over the place telling us that his aircraft will have casinos and bars and blah blah.Yeah right !!
If he actually takes delivery of the GWE,he'll fill it with as many seats as he can squeeze in !
A while back he was offering his orders for sale,having realised that LAX will be unable to take the machine for some time.
That idiot Branson grinning all over the place telling us that his aircraft will have casinos and bars and blah blah.Yeah right !!
If he actually takes delivery of the GWE,he'll fill it with as many seats as he can squeeze in !
A while back he was offering his orders for sale,having realised that LAX will be unable to take the machine for some time.
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GrahamK I think it's located beside the Barbie Pit, next to the swimming pool and the high diving board.!!
I heard Terry Woebegone (That well known Aviation Sage) tell the known world this morning on the wireless, that nobody, as yet, had successfully landed the sim without taking out the odd pod. Is this a good rumour.??
Couldn't possibly be true......could it.??
I heard Terry Woebegone (That well known Aviation Sage) tell the known world this morning on the wireless, that nobody, as yet, had successfully landed the sim without taking out the odd pod. Is this a good rumour.??
Couldn't possibly be true......could it.??
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... but Airbus have been granted some "dispensations" on the 90 sec / 50% of exits requirement "to ensure the safety of the volunteers".
I stand by for the howls of protest from the Europhiles that anyone might dare to suggest that these dispensations might be somewhat slanted towards ensuring the KonkHorde passes the test with "flying" colours.
Back to the subject of the thread: - whilst casting no aspersions at the aeroplane, that had to be the godawful launch I have ever (in part) witnessed. "In part" because I wandered off in utter boredom.
Now, a quick question: how much more interesting would such a presentation have been if it had been done by the cousins across the pond?
I stand by for the howls of protest from the Europhiles that anyone might dare to suggest that these dispensations might be somewhat slanted towards ensuring the KonkHorde passes the test with "flying" colours.
Back to the subject of the thread: - whilst casting no aspersions at the aeroplane, that had to be the godawful launch I have ever (in part) witnessed. "In part" because I wandered off in utter boredom.
Now, a quick question: how much more interesting would such a presentation have been if it had been done by the cousins across the pond?