A380 Fly-by!

This morning, at ~ 0800 EDT, I got to watch the A380 make a low pass
of a Pratt & Whitney facility, complete with a wing wave!

Damn... That thing is BIG. (Coming from a guy who regularily sees
C-5's in flight!).

B A R R Y wrote:
This morning, at ~ 0800 EDT, I got to watch the A380 make a low pass
of a Pratt & Whitney facility, complete with a wing wave!

Damn... That thing is BIG. (Coming from a guy who regularily sees
C-5's in flight!).

It's really not an airplane at all. It's a "place" that moves around in
the sky. When it lands I'm fairly certain it becomes a continent .
:-))

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Dudley Henriques

WFSB just had a report of the landing at BDL, and gave us a glimpse of the
inside. Made B747s look small
"B A R R Y" wrote in message
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This morning, at ~ 0800 EDT, I got to watch the A380 make a low pass
of a Pratt & Whitney facility, complete with a wing wave!

Damn... That thing is BIG. (Coming from a guy who regularily sees
C-5's in flight!).

On Oct 2, 5:47 pm, "tom418" wrote:
WFSB just had a report of the landing at BDL, and gave us a glimpse of the
inside. Made B747s look small
"B A R R Y" wrote in messagenews:kk95g3t2h217fdb4p269rpmkhkn0dijcvp@4ax .com...



This morning, at ~ 0800 EDT, I got to watch the A380 make a low pass
of a Pratt & Whitney facility, complete with a wing wave!

Damn... That thing is BIG. (Coming from a guy who regularily sees
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I haven't see the A380, but it seem to be almost identical in length
to the 747.
http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~mason/Mason_f/A380Buescher.pdf

"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message ...
B A R R Y wrote:
This morning, at ~ 0800 EDT, I got to watch the A380 make a low pass
of a Pratt & Whitney facility, complete with a wing wave!

Damn... That thing is BIG. (Coming from a guy who regularily sees
C-5's in flight!).

It's really not an airplane at all. It's a "place" that moves around in the sky. When it lands I'm fairly certain it
becomes a continent .
:-))

--
Dudley Henriques

Should have it's own zip code...

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Andrew Sarangan wrote:

I haven't see the A380, but it seem to be almost identical in length
to the 747.
http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~mason/Mason_f/A380Buescher.pdf

There is video of the A380's landing at LAX floating around. As
it is rolling out and taxiing you can see it next to a couple of B744s
and A340s. It definitely dwarfs a B744.

BL.
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On 2 Oct, 21:16, B A R R Y wrote:
This morning, at ~ 0800 EDT, I got to watch the A380 make a low pass
of a Pratt & Whitney facility, complete with a wing wave!

Damn... That thing is BIG. (Coming from a guy who regularily sees
C-5's in flight!).

Yeah, i've seen al the finished ones wingtip to wingtip in Toulouse
and they don't actually look that big from across the field.
They don't look that big until you notice the tiny thing parked next
to them is an A340!
I think there's five finished now.

Bertie

Dudley Henriques wrote:
B A R R Y wrote:
This morning, at ~ 0800 EDT, I got to watch the A380 make a low pass
of a Pratt & Whitney facility, complete with a wing wave!

Damn... That thing is BIG. (Coming from a guy who regularily sees
C-5's in flight!).

It's really not an airplane at all. It's a "place" that moves around in
the sky. When it lands I'm fairly certain it becomes a continent .
:-))


Good one! :-)

Matt

On Oct 2, 3:16 pm, B A R R Y wrote:
This morning, at ~ 0800 EDT, I got to watch the A380 make a low pass
of a Pratt & Whitney facility, complete with a wing wave!

Damn... That thing is BIG. (Coming from a guy who regularily sees
C-5's in flight!).

Wow, didn't realize there were any in the US right now. I'm sure it
was one of the two with the EA GP7200 engines on its cert trials. Do
you know if it landed at JFK?

On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:16:26 GMT, B A R R Y
wrote:

This morning, at ~ 0800 EDT, I got to watch the A380 make a low pass
of a Pratt & Whitney facility, complete with a wing wave!

Damn... That thing is BIG. (Coming from a guy who regularily sees
C-5's in flight!).

Barry

Look close. Probably the biggest coffin you will see for a while.

If I do any more airline traveling, will not fly on a 380.

Big John