Gordon Brown on the flight deck: can I check my hotmail on this?

Bet he's wondering if he can introduce a cup holder tax or something.

anyone know what time shes scheduled to take off ?

0555L Fri, 27L

According to the BBC, it has a joystick instead of a steering wheel!

Whatever will those clever people at Airbus come up with next?

SoS

Ed Strongman giving Gordon Brown the executive cockpit tour on BBC 24!

0700L tomorrow i believe is ETD
ah maybe its 0555 then,im not sure!i heard 0700

get gordon brown out the LHS!

Whatever happens, I think we'll end up with Gordon Brown in the LHS sooner rather than later

derekvader / allyn

I believe it to be the same beast as I toured around back in Feb. On the lower deck are the various control / monitoring systems. Upper deck has a few rows of seats at the front with the remainder of each deck filled with ballast tanks, cables, and cameras and the occasional seat for the test crew.

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showpos...postcount=1374

Regardless of the number of times I've seen it it is still an awesome sight and it made it much more real today seeing it land in such familiar surroundings.

With Gordon in the cockpit (looking bored), it showed how small and cramped it can get in there.

Great moment on Sky just now...'This is the existing biggest airliner, the Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet'..... cue picture of early 737.

Hi,

would anyone know the approximate landing distance (for the test stage weight) required for this machine?

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What were those huge yellow pipes they were hooking up to it on the stand? They came from the underside of the air bridge, and looked about 30-40cm in diameter. Does it use terminal-based air conditioning when sitting on the ground? Is that a permanent feature of the A380, or unique to this one since it is full of extra computer gear?

Over the houses in Myrtle Ave.

Just got back from Heathrow. Was standing at the end of 27L for about an hour along with some 500 other people.

Anyone know why there were 2 BA 744's landing on 27L shortly before the A380 came in?

Kirk

Heathrow is BA's Jumbo base and they do have quite a few of them...

i was there, stood next to a guy with a scanner and he said so that accurate wind reports could be obtained from the 2x BA B744 crews.
This would be relayed to the A380 flightdeck. it did get very windy around 1pm. Did you see how the road (A30) traffic came to a standstill each time a large aircraft passed over... Its only a BA 747!

It did a nice fly past of the Tower at Liverpool

Haha I did. Also saw one lorrydriver actually stop (when the A380 was on final) and take a picture with his mobile.

Thanks for advice given earlier.

My Son's school (a mile from OCK) all turned eyes upwards in the playground and got not one pass, but four, the last of which was under blue sky.

Whole school very impressed. Thanks again.

Thanks for that link Didn't work too well during the event, but the whole replay was fine

Heres my little wobbly video that I took from the Westbase carpark!!! Enjoy!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...82240557942331