I dont pretend to say, I travelled with them.
But some of my friends did and the feed back was very nice, they had
all the proper praise for this company.
After knowing they incorporated Airbus A380 in their fleet. I want to
give details, which are very very interesting about this Aircraft.
Its a peak of human achievement, I want to feel the exaltation with
the members of mouthshut.
That is why I am giving you details of this Aircraft, Which I borrowed
from a source its not my write up what follows hereafter :-
Aviation history was made this morning when the first A380, the
world’s largest commercial aircraft, successfully took off on its
maiden flight leaving Blagnac International Airport in Toulouse,
France at 10.29 hours local time (08.29 UTC) from runway 32L.
The A380 first flight will take place above the region west of Toulouse
and South West France.
The A380’s first flight is being jointly captained by Claude Lelaie,
Senior Vice President of Airbus’ Flight Division and Chief Test Pilot and
Vice President Jacques Rosay. The other crew members are Fernando
Alonso, Vice President Flight Division, Flight Test Engineering, who
leads a team of two other flight test engineers Jacky Joye and Manfred
Birnfeld, and test flight engineer Gérard Desbois.
For its first flight, Airbus’ 21st century flagship, carrying the
registration F-WW0W, took off at a weight of 421 tonnes / 928, 300
lbs, the highest ever of any civil airliner at take-off to date. It is
powered by four Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines. In addition to water
ballasts, the equipment on board the A380 comprises a full set of
flight-test instrumentation to record the thousands of parameters
necessary to enable in-flight performance analysis. Being a true
twin-aisle double-decker, the test A380 is fitted with two test
instrumentation sets and working stations, one on the main deck and
another on the upper deck.
Prior to taking off, the A380 had successfully completed a series of
ground tests, which started in the summer of 2004 when the electrical
power was put on for the first time (so-called ’’power-on’’ milestone).
Since then Airbus has systematically and exhaustively tested all A380
systems, from hydraulics to electrics, and all parts of the airframe structure, including static testing and wing and fuselage load testing; a programme
that has been carried out over thousands of hours at centres across
France, Germany and the UK.
The first flight marks the beginning of a flight test campaign involving
as many as 2, 500 hours of test flights on a total of five development
aircraft. This rigorous sequence of test flights will lead to the
certification of the A380 by the European and US airworthiness
authorities, allowing the world’s largest commercial airliner to enter
into service in the second half of 2006 with first operator Singapore Airlines.
Airbus has optimised the A380’s flight performance and economics
by incorporating cutting-edge technologies in systems and materials.
It benefits from the significant weight savings brought about by composites
and other advanced materials (for instance GLARE) which comprise 25%
of its structure, and from the weight, reliability and cost benefits of new
systems such as its 5, 000 psi pressure hydraulic system. It also benefits
from an advanced cockpit with the latest interactive displays and avionics
that retains the unique benefits of Airbus’ operational commonality between
all fly-by-wire models.
The 555-seat A380, Airbus’ newest and largest aircraft, offers
unequalled passenger comfort, longer range and much lower operating
costs thanks to state-of-the-art technology and its engines minimize
noise, fuel burn and emissions. The A380 is a significant evolutionary step
in the history of commercial aviation that promises to ease congestion at
major airports by transporting more people more efficiently than ever on
the world’s major air routes.
To date 15 customers have announced firm orders and commitments
for a total of 154 A380 Family aircraft, comprising 127 passenger aircraft
from 13 customers and 27 freighters from four customers. The freighter
version of the A380, the A380F, will enter into service in 2008.
Additional information regarding the A380 programme, the aircraft and
its crew can be found on the Airbus website at https://airbus.com
< https://airbus.com/ >. Airbus is an EADS joint Company with
BAE Systems.
We will be the ultimate consumers for this Aircraft, so I saw it fit to give all
above details from a source, I am not capable of writing such technical
things.
I will delete this review if required.