The loudest A-380 I’ve ever heard over Frisco, perhaps due to recent unusual wind patterns near SFO. Actually, it’s still pretty quiet by today’s standards, both inside and out. That was one of its biggest selling points, being big and quiet to better fit in at London Heathrow Airport (LHR). But the rest of the world isn’t as obsessed about limited landing slots and it’s not as worried about disturbing the neighbors. And look at the wings – they should be long and thin instead of short and stubby. But this monster needed to fit in at airports around the world and I guess folding wingtips was too bold an idea back then, so you end up with this low aspect ratio design what’s bad for fuel economy. And then they had to plan for stretching the fuselage to get even more ppl on board to make the amount of fuel burned per passenger go down to be more competitive in the future, but Airbus had to put this puppy down before that could happen, so now the remaining A-380’s, the ones what haven’t been torn down for parts, are doomed to keep flying with inappropriately strong (well now that they fixed the problem they had with the wings not being poorly design/installed), heavy, stubby wings for the next decade or however long that these relatively new planes will still be flying around.
From Iranian airspace to Victorian airspace in about 15 hours:
What else, oh, this version of the A380 just came in from the Middle East so that means it’s an updated version, one that can reliably fly such a long distance. Does that mean that it’s lighter, as some ppl think? Oh no, it’s even heavier, like more fuel to haul around, right?
Anyway, this rig was a BFD to SFO about a dozen years ago. I suppose SFO is excited about different things these days.
From this…
Giant A380 jetliner proves SFO planners were right
…to this…
…in about eight years
What a garbage program this was!
The Airbus A-380 – sorry, things just didn’t work out.
