Airbus A380 First Flight Announcement

Interesting to see a pilots POV of cockpit when it comes into service. looks alot more complex than A340! Wys – what do you think from pics or anything youve heard?

WOW thats some cockpit!!

Thats looks a cool cockpit!

My A380 update 22.04.2005

First pitures from the first A380 cockpit:

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Please note, that some instruments and red knobs are used only for the test flights.

Source:
http://www.babault.net/A380/Page.html
Nice overflight and close-up views!

An actual date would be nice, so people could perhaps make plans to go out and see it fly for the first time.

First flights are usually carried out as and when the conditions are right, whether that’s a new-build airliner or a restored warbird. Don’t forget that it’s a very tough and exacting process to convert an aeroplane from something that performs all simulated airborne tasks faultlessly on the ground, to something that actually flies. There is a lot of pressure on everyone involved, and going out and stating a date and time for a first flight just increases that pressure, and increases the risk of mistakes being made while everyone’s clock-watching instead of getting on with the business of ensuring that the first flight goes safely.

Selected members of the press might well be tipped off about the A380’s first go, but I would expect the first flight to be announced after the fact, with a full scale ‘official’ first flight taking place for the benefit of the press a bit later.

An actual date would be nice, so people could perhaps make plans to go out and see it fly for the first time.

First flights are usually carried out as and when the conditions are right, whether that’s a new-build airliner or a restored warbird. Don’t forget that it’s a very tough and exacting process to convert an aeroplane from something that performs all simulated airborne tasks faultlessly on the ground, to something that actually flies. There is a lot of pressure on everyone involved, and going out and stating a date and time for a first flight just increases that pressure, and increases the risk of mistakes being made while everyone’s clock-watching instead of getting on with the business of ensuring that the first flight goes safely.

Selected members of the press might well be tipped off about the A380’s first go, but I would expect the first flight to be announced after the fact, with a full scale ‘official’ first flight taking place for the benefit of the press a bit later.

In the meantime here is a picture of the first engine runs…….

In the meantime here is a picture of the first engine runs…….

An actual date would be nice, so people could perhaps make plans to go out and see it fly for the first time.

Well they say they will announce the date in the next few days, so that should give you 3 – 5 days to book a flight….but then there is always the risk that on the morning of the first flight changes to plans are made. Airbus wouldn’t be the first aircraft manufacturer to do this.

An actual date would be nice, so people could perhaps make plans to go out and see it fly for the first time.

Well they say they will announce the date in the next few days, so that should give you 3 – 5 days to book a flight….but then there is always the risk that on the morning of the first flight changes to plans are made. Airbus wouldn’t be the first aircraft manufacturer to do this.

An actual date would be nice, so people could perhaps make plans to go out and see it fly for the first time.

An actual date would be nice, so people could perhaps make plans to go out and see it fly for the first time.

From A.net:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/820811/M/

From A.net:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/820811/M/

I’d imagine there’s quite an extensive flight test programme to go through first. The first Concorde flew in March 1969 – first passenger service didn’t depart until 1976…

There were a large number of reasons (including political and technological) for the delays in Concorde coming into commercial service and in actual fact the A380 will not take so long to certify (as would be expected for any modern airliner). 4 test aircraft will be used for 2000 hours of flying time, so should pass by relatively quickly. The aircraft is due in servcie next year.

I’d imagine there’s quite an extensive flight test programme to go through first. The first Concorde flew in March 1969 – first passenger service didn’t depart until 1976…

There were a large number of reasons (including political and technological) for the delays in Concorde coming into commercial service and in actual fact the A380 will not take so long to certify (as would be expected for any modern airliner). 4 test aircraft will be used for 2000 hours of flying time, so should pass by relatively quickly. The aircraft is due in servcie next year.

Wicked…more evidence of not long to go before it being a fully flying airliner

I’d imagine there’s quite an extensive flight test programme to go through first. The first Concorde flew in March 1969 – first passenger service didn’t depart until 1976…

Wicked…more evidence of not long to go before it being a fully flying airliner

I’d imagine there’s quite an extensive flight test programme to go through first. The first Concorde flew in March 1969 – first passenger service didn’t depart until 1976…

An Historic day in commercial aviation no doubt

An Historic day in commercial aviation no doubt