Breakthrough in Air Transport, The Airbus A380
Airbus A380 is the biggest airliner ever build. A3XX was its pre-production designation code. 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 main and upper deck are used for passenger, which are connected near the airplane’s front by a majestic staircase and at the airplane’s back part, a small staircase is set. Special passenger utilization can be accomodated on the lower deck outfit, although its main purpose is for cargo. The lower deck can be modified to become a business center, a sleeper cabins, or maybe also a child care center. Airline may decide what the purpose of the lower deck would be.
A380 total capacity is 840 passengers in one-class configuration and 555 passengers in three-class configuration. Compare to the airliner Boeing 747-400 dimensions, the A380 has thirty to fifty percent more seats to offer. The A380 has the ability to fly a long distance of 10,000 miles. 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. The New Plane receive 66 orders right after its first launching on December 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. The first carrier to use A380 for commercial service is Singapore Airlines. It’s due on year 2007. Australian’s Qantas Airways, and UAE’s Emirates Airlines following to operate the A380.
Thanks to their newest technology, A380 will turn into a more effective airplane than its major rival, The Boeing 747-400. 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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