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Posted: 18 May 2006, 14:41
by DaveB
Watched it on the news this lunchtime. Looked like the pilot had to force the darned thing down and as a consequence, it wasn't the prettiest landing I've seen (RH outer bogie the last to touch).
Impressive nontheless
ATB
DaveB :tab:
Posted: 18 May 2006, 15:26
by AndyG
Well, I didn't hear it flying over, which is a good sign!
AndyG
Posted: 18 May 2006, 15:42
by TobyV
You can watch it on the beeb here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4990780.stm
Looked a bit "wobbly" in pitch to me :think:
I notice theres thrsut reversers only on the inboard engines seemingly.
Posted: 18 May 2006, 15:58
by ianhind
Toby,
I noticed that about the thrust reversers too.
I saved the online BBC stream to a file to look at again.
Ian
Posted: 18 May 2006, 16:03
by FlyTexas
I've read that Airbus had initially planned not to have thrust reversers at all on the A380. Must have some pretty powerful brakes.
Brian
Posted: 18 May 2006, 16:33
by jonesey2k
Maybe to do with that the outboard engines are so close to the runway sides that it would kick up a load of rubbish?
Posted: 18 May 2006, 16:48
by TobyV
I was thinking more of the reverse loading applied to the wing and pylon and the tendency for it to cause them wing to bend back... i.e. the wing structure will be much stronger inboard.
Posted: 18 May 2006, 18:39
by migman29
Seen it on the Beeb news.
Man that is one helluvan aluminium overcast :shock:
Mark :-({|=
Posted: 18 May 2006, 19:05
by glen
well it flew over us in Putney @ 13:15 as we'd stopped for lunch we sat outside and watched it, in the 30 seconds or so it took to come over the roof of the flats opposite to disappearing over East Putney station we were pretty impressed by what we saw.
For its size I think the fact that it is so quiet is a testament to modern engine technology certainly the preceding 747 was possibly twice as noisy
all in all not bad
Glen
Posted: 18 May 2006, 19:16
by cstorey
I watched it, together with a very large crowd ( most of us retired!) , from a hill slightly above and about 1 mile from r/w 23 at Hawarden. It did a pass with gear up at some speed, and then a further left hand circuit with gear down with a low approach and go around. Very impressive, , very quiet even on the climb out, and much nicer looking in the metal than on photographs, although it will never be a great beauty.
Chris
