Well what do you expect when you buy boeing...:ok:

A380 Visits
 

hi looking on the flyer forum there are rumours of the A380 visiting Manchester on 10th june and heathrow some time in april can anyone here confirm this.

is there an definate dates for the big bird at UK airports.

Regards
Craig:confused:

I don't know when the A380 will be visiting LHR, although I know they are currenlty strengthening both runways for it's arrival in due course at the minute. I would imagine that it would go to LHR first though.

This is from the Skyport Newspaper. They had some article on there about a charity 'fun-run' along one of the runways in order to raise money for charity

FE

The A380 is due to visit LHR on the 29/30th April. Had it confirmed last night from the BAA ODM.

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A380 in UK airports
 

Will the A380 be able to operate out of any of these airports on their exisiting runways/taxiways/aprons?

London Heathrow
London Gatwick
London Stansted
Luton
Manchester
Birmingham
Glasgow
Edinburgh

..end of April according to another thread.

If you wanna come over and see it, Leezyjet has hit the nail on the head!

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If your in the Hamburg area you might just see MSN0007 arriving on March 6th, date accurate as of last week.

An update on this is below.

A380 at DSA
 

It might sound odd but DSA (old RAF FNY) has one of the longest runways in britain, has acres and acres of spare land and loads of space for everything really, does anyone think that someone might base engineering there or anything like that qantas are offering options to dsa in 2008 whether this will be via codeshare ba flights or not who can say? the airport is at presnet pretty badly run but could be an absolute diamond of the north with the right input!

MSN0007 arrived in Hamburg today..Early believe it or not !! Being preped for evac tests next week.

A380 @ LHR date speculation
 

SOURCE : FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL.COM

Heathrow visitor centre sets April date for Airbus A380 London visit

The Airbus A380 could pay a visit to London’s Heathrow airport in late April as part of its airport "fit check" tests that has seen the ultralarge airliner so far take in Brisbane, Dubai, Frankfurt, Kuala Lumpur, Melbourne, Singapore and Sydney.

Speculation is mounting that one of the test aircraft will set down on the London airport’s runway in late April. Flight's 24h news service Air Transport Intelligence has learnt that 29 April is the favourite date, with the aircraft set to make an overnight stay.

Airbus has already carried out airport compatibility trials for the A380 at Frankfurt Main, but Heathrow is likely to be the first to host regular A380 services from the end of this year and Airbus is keen to test facilities at the UK's main hub. The Heathrow visitor centre says it has been informed that the A380 will arrive on 29-30 April but is unable to give details on activity plans for the jet.

However, Heathrow airport operator BAA says a date is not final, adding that “29 April would be too busy", as it is a Saturday prior to a public holiday.

Airbus is also unable to confirm the 29 April date, with any date being determined by the demands of the flight-test programme, saying: “This would be subject to change”. The company says it would have “serious doubts” that a provisional schedule fixed two months in advance would remain unaffected.

Virgin Atlantic, the only UK customer for the A380, says that it is unaware of a date for the A380’s first arrival into Heathrow. The carrier has postponed development of an A380 hangar at the airport following the deferral of delivery dates for the type.

The visitor centre is gearing up for record numbers for any A380 arrival. However, aircraft enthusiasts could be disappointed if they are hoping to catch a glimpse of the aircraft, as any operations would be restricted to the airport's southern runway (27L/09R), which has been widened and its taxiways repositioned to accommodate the giant. However this is furthest away from the visitor centre and work to allow A380 operations on the northern runway (27R/09L) will are not due to be completed until 2008.

Modifications at London Heathrow to accommodate the A380 also include the construction of a four-gate contact Pier 6 (a BAA artist's impression of which is pictured below) at Terminal 3. Terminal 4 will also have A380 stands and the new Terminal 5 will include A380 gates when it opens in 2008.

Whats this I hear that when full of fuel the A380 flexes so much some of the doors won't open.

oh dear.....more complete rubbish

will the a380 land at dsa's huge runway for engineering?

Is DSA that huge really?

London Heathrow:

09L/27R 12802ft/3902m PCN 83
09R/27L 12008ft/3660m PCN 83

London Gatwick:

08R/26L 10879ft/3316m PCN 78

MoD Boscombe Down

05/23 10538ft/3212m LCG lll

RAF Brize Norton:

08/26 10007ft/3050m PCN 81

London Stansted:

05/23 10000ft/3048m PCN 86

Campbeltown (RAF Macrihanish):

11/29 10003ft/3049m LCG lll

Manchester:

06L/24R 10000ft/3048m PCN 94
06R/24L 9997ft/3047m PCN 79

RAF Fairford:

09/27 9994ft/3046m PCN 105

Doncaster Sheffield:

02/20 9491ft/2893m PCN 63

Well, it's just outside the top 10 in UK. There are several others in the 9000ft region. It does have the advantage of having a 60m width runway, but its PCN (pavement strength) is very low at 63, which is insufficient for many current widebodies, let alone the A380. Its taxiways, IIRC (I was based there for 5 years), are probably too narrow also, as well as being too weak.

I suspect that the cost of bringing DSA up to spec for the A380 is too much to make it viable. In any case, all the European operators of the aeroplane have their engineering plans in hand already. Finningley's a great place, but I wouldn't hold your breath for the A380 coming there!

3 747 f's landed last year and there is a 767-300 based here this summer, but the taxiways are quite narrow, what do you think the prospects are for the latest heathrow of the north?

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Singapore A380
 

Can anyone confirm that the Singapore painted A380 flew westbound over Cairo at about 1400z today (27/2) at FL380/400??

Just wanted to know that I had seen it!!! Looked kind of cool!!!

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Don't take this literally...
 

Yep, it would have been pretty cool - 56.5°C. at FL380...