Airbus A380
November 27, 2009 by 247 Travel Guides
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Airbus A380 is the biggest airliner ever build. Its name was A3XX until it changed to A380. The length of A380 is longer than the length of a football field.
Here’s the Airbus A380 Dimensions in metric terms:
- Overall length: 73 meters
- Height: 24,1 meters
- Fuselage diameter: 7,14 meters
- Maximum cabin width: 6,58 meters (main deck) and 5,92 meters (upper deck)
- Cabin length: 49,90 meters
- Wingspan: 79,8 meters (geometric)
- Wing area: 845 square meter (reference)
- Wing sweep: 33,5 degrees (25% chord)
- Wheelbase: 30,4 meters
- Wheel track: 14,3 meters
The plane has a total of three decks. The passengers stay in the main and upper decks which are connected near the airplane’s front by a majestic staircase and at the airplane’s back part, a small staircase is set. The lower deck outfit can be equiped to accomodate special passenger utilization, although the main purpose is for cargo. Airline will have enough room to create even a child care center or a business center on the lower deck. The Purpose of the lower deck will determine.
A380 can handle up to 840 passengers depends on the seating configuration. Compare to the airliner Boeing 747-400 dimensions, the A380 has thirty to fifty percent more seats to offer. 10,000 miles of flight distance can be flown by the A380. The engines are developed to lift up the 1,2 million pounds of the airplane’s weight for any kind of flight distance.
Ten airlines interested to purchase this kind of jet bus. 66 planes were ordered right after the official launching on December 19th, 2000. Some of the customers are famous airlines such as Air France, Federal Express, Emirates, Lufthansa, Qatar Airways, Qantas, Virgin Atlantic and Singapore Airlines.
Airbus received more orders since the production started on January 23rd in 2002. Singapore Airlines is the launch customer of the Airbus A380. This happened on 2007. Several other airlines also planning to put the A380 into commercial service, which are Australian’s Qantas Airways, and UAE’s Emirates Airlines.
Because of continuous improvement in technology, Airbus assures that A380 will turn into a more effective airplane than its major airline rival, Boeing 747. Airbus A380 uses a new state of the art engines, which has less fuel consumption, less noise, and making cheaper flight possible.
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