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Jambo
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18th May 06 at 11:43   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

what is largest plane to the a380? a 747? My girlfriend seemed to think it was something else...


and to the bus comparrison
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18th May 06 at 11:46   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Anotov 225 ! SHES RIGHT lol

[Edited on 18-05-2006 by Sooty]
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i was within feet of it

i work in airbus broughton
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http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/2778269/

its been at heathrow today
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Airbus



Anotov
Jambo
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anotov is not civil tho is it? did i see that on a jeremy clarkson dvd?
paul_spurrell
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It's a strategic airlift transport airplane

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BBC website now!!
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Technically, the Spruce Goose which was finished in 1947 is bigger than both the Antonov 225 and The A380.

Wingspan of 319ft, Length 218ft, Height 79ft.

Compare this to the 290, 277 and 59 of the Antonov. It's a fair big bigger.

Shame it never did much.
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dammit its not flyig over this way


Gutted man that was going to brighten up my day, anyone know if its due to take off again today? If so i should be able ot catch that!
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Think it flies back out on Monday.
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quote:
Originally posted by Dean_W
Technically, the Spruce Goose which was finished in 1947 is bigger than both the Antonov 225 and The A380.

Wingspan of 319ft, Length 218ft, Height 79ft.

Compare this to the 290, 277 and 59 of the Antonov. It's a fair big bigger.

Shame it never did much.


The Hurcules is only bigger in certain dimensions.


besides, it is also lighter than an A380 and AN225, and on par with a 747, all fully laden.

I remember being in Sydney Harbour when the A380 did multiple fly pasts, it was totally incredible
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just watched it on BBC site
Jambo
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i cant watch bloody videos at work

Have to wait till i get home
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I thought it was Tommorow it flew out.

I saw it land and get taxi'd around the airport
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lol same - well on my computer at work - we all watched it live on the bbc website lol - how sad lol - looks nice though, huge
wouldn't mind going on that one day
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I was actually at heathrow though, when seeing it there in front of you, you see just how big it looks compared to the other planes.
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quote:
Originally posted by chr15barn3s
I was actually at heathrow though, when seeing it there in front of you, you see just how big it looks compared to the other planes.


Yeah it was taxing in and went past a British Airways plane, and they are pretty big, but the size of it compared to a Cathay Pacific Jumbo Jet - its massive lol - Wish i was there to see it Looked good though!
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Hmmm, the thing is, will it be a success? Boeing seem to thing that faster more efficinet aircraft are the way forwards. I would tend to agree. But them the argument would come back that you could fit more people in the Airbus and make more money doing that. Still a bloody impressive piece of engineering though!
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quote:
Originally posted by dave17



at comparison to london bus

A bit off topic but why does everything like this get compared to either london buses or football pitches?

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