A380 Fly-by!

[B A R R Y]

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!).

[Dudley Henriques[_2_]]

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

[tom418]

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!).

[Andrew Sarangan]

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...
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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!).- Hide quoted text -
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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

[Blueskies]

"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...

[A Guy Called Tyketto]

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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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[Bertie the Bunyip]

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

[Matt Whiting]

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

[Kingfish]

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?

[Big John]

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

[B A R R Y]

On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:37:52 -0400, john smith >
wrote:

>The A380 is scheduled to land at Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky
>Airport/KCVG on Wednesday, October 2nd. I do not know the planned
>arrival/departure times.

That's today, 10/3. BDL to CVG.

FWIW, I tried to track it inbound for BDL, and it did not show up on
Flyteaware. I figured it might show up as a GA tail number, but no
dice. Are they flying this thing around VFR?

I happen to catch the P&W "wave" my accident, as I walked down the
street to breakfast.

[B A R R Y]

On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:47:03 -0700, Kingfish >
wrote:

> Do
>you know if it landed at JFK?


This one didn't, direct from France to Bradley.

[Kingfish]

On Oct 3, 5:40 am, B A R R Y > wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:47:03 -0700, Kingfish >
> wrote:
>
> > Do
> >you know if it landed at JFK?
>
> This one didn't, direct from France to Bradley.

It landed at BDL??? I didn't think that field could accommodate the
380. Airnav has the max runway weight on 6/24 at 710,000 w/DDT gear.
Empty weight is 608,000 with who knows how much fuel left after a
direct flight from Toulouse - they musta been pretty close on the
weight I'd guess...

[B A R R Y]

On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:28:49 -0700, Kingfish >
wrote:


>It landed at BDL???

With a 40 person "crew" and a bunch of water drum pax.


Check out Chopper 8's view:
www.wtnh.com


P&W and Hamilton Sunstrand employees got a tour and close up view
while it was parked on a deicing pad.

[Montblack]

("B A R R Y" wrote)
> Check out Chopper 8's view:
> www.wtnh.com


The 14 year old kid was fun: 'Why yes, this is what I always do before
school.'


Montblack :-)