Richard Hammond sets out on a quest to find the amazing engineering connections behind the Airbus A380, the largest passenger airliner in history.
His journey reveals that this state-of-the-art aircraft owes as much to weapons of war, Mother Nature and household objects as it does to high technology. He discovers that a bicycle pump, a 19th-century rocket, an ancient Mongolian bow and an eagle’s wing are all hidden in its secret DNA.
Well I found the program interesting. Well worth 50 mins of your life.
By: abutcher1985 - 16th February 2009 at 08:26
True, it was interesting, but hardly unique to the A380… in fact all of these technologies bar the composite fuselage could be applied to the A318!
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February 15, 2009 at 10:01 pm