Thank you kindly Kestrel.
 

We may go have a look if I can get access. :ok:

F****tA***e says it is scheduled to arrive at KIAD at 8:28PM EDT Sunday,Mar 25. Better hurry if you want to get there for the arrival.
Oops, that's an hour after sunset.

So much for the schedule on F***A***. The report now says that the A380 touched down at 8:08PM EDT.


When is the scheduled departure from IAD?

For info, an A380 has just completed its scheduled flypast of the Derby area. Can't quote a tail number but it was in all-white livery, extremely quiet and really quite impressive to be honest. Last seen pointing west...

Cheers.

Should just about be at Filton now if the Beeb website is corret. Is it going to be at Filton for the rest of the week as the Beeb is suggesting?

It flew past East Mids a little before midday.

Got the chance to go to IAD to visit Big Bird early this morning (0630 local). Impressive in the early light of day.

WOW!

Preflight checklist being sorted out, so no flight deck tour. No gifties, either. :(

Cheers, y'all.

Panda - yes I believe it is stationed there all week.

Mudfoot - was it F-WWOW :)

As a guess, today's A380 over Derby and at Bristol is F-WWDD (MSN004) if I remember rightly, I'm sure others can confirm this.

Preflight at IAD, where was it off to?

Keeping my eyes on the skies again :8

EGBM: y'know, I didn't even look (DOH!) :ugh: , but I did get some pix & I'll see if I got the tail nbr. MSN is 007, I believe it was F-WWDD (or maybe not). Will check & advise.
K_909: public relations flight w/ press & guests, just going out for about an hour then returning.
About 12h25 (local) it came back into IAD from the north, flew right over my building which is about 3 mi N of the birdcage. What a sight!
Cheers, y'all.

Saw it fly down RWY 09 at East Midlands before going to do a couple of low passes over the RR works at Derby. Impressed by how quite it was.

There are some good pictures here:ok: ;

http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk

Fantastic guys- I'd love to see it! How nice to see genuine enthusiasts commenting positively on a fantastic engineering achievement. And not one comment on this page that (let's see):
the engines are too near the ground
the wings are too waggly
the rudder is even more waggly
it waggles on landing
the waggles waggle too much
it's too big and it waggles

It looked really quite a graceful and elegant aeroplane in the skies over Derby today, it was a privilege to see it. My wife, who's no aviation buff, was extremely impressed with the aircraft, especially the quietness and effortlessness of it.

We were both quite proud to see the town's engineering efforts in action, hats off to the Trent 900s.:D

Pictures of the A380 at EGNX or EGTG
 

Great to see so many positive comments, anyone know where there are pictures of the go around at EMA (EGNX) .........

A390 Flypast at EMA
 

Try here -

http://www.midland-bernese-carters.org.uk/a380pics.htm

Try BBC Bristol for Filton pics :ok:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/
also great one here of it taxiing past Bristol Filtons Concorde
http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/displ...ommand=newPage
And just echoeing an earlier post, my girlfriend who has no intrest in aviation at all, apart from chooseing expensive blinkin holidays, was just amazed at the sheer size of it and couldn't figure out how it was so quiet, bless her!

Hi guys

I did comment on this yesterday at 13.08 hours and my thread has gone ????? this is sooo annoying, so i will try again.
Went to view this yeserday at EMA and it was amazing infact a big WOW, so BIG and sooooooo Quiet.
Also would like to say a big Well done to the people of Derby and the Rolls Royce team, how nice of Airbus to do this fly over to mark there hard work.


Thanks

Mike

Don't just judge it on an idle power flypast and a very low power approach- remember it's empty. No people, seats, furnishings. Really just the bare weight of metal, 3 people and minimal fuel!

How long is the A380 at filton?

makes two test flights each day this week til Thursday and then leaves on Friday:ok: