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"Peter Dohm" wrote:

Personally, I am a long time "Boeing Bigot" and that makes "Airbus Bashing"
just a little difficult for me to avoid--especially after reading that
several recent designs from Airbus do not allow the pilot to cross control
the aircraft. Clearly, some version of a classic "kick out" would be the
natural way to make that sort of landing if the "rules" of the control
system permitted it; but, even so, that landing did not look nearly as
unsettling as most of the internet videos of routine landings at windy
airports around the world.

The only unsettling thing for me was the strange bend in the middle of
the wings after touchdown. Once I realized this was just how they were
built, I couldn't see why this video merited comment at all.

The comment about wing flex really puzzled me. I don't know how much an
A380's wing is supposed to flex, but I suspect that these commenters
don't know either. Wing flex varies so dramatically between airplanes
that you can't just make a blanket statement like they did about how
that degree of wing flex automatically implies a hard landing. On some
planes, that much flex would mean you broke it. On others, like mine,
you can get that much flex just by grabbing a wingtip and shaking it up
and down gently at the right frequency.

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Mike Ash
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