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Originally posted by TourDeForce:
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I think it looks old. (I don't know anything about planes, though, just the shape of it...)
Reminds me of the old OVERSIZED guppie transport. Remember that thing??
Airbus still uses it. It's designed to fly fuselage portions from one facility to another for completion.
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Originally posted by Goonz SVT:
this is insane, looks ugly as my ex gf. I'd never fly that
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was your ex g/f from Bangladesh. . .hello, thank you, come again! 
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Originally posted by ssmumich00:
Originally posted by Goonz SVT:
this is insane, looks ugly as my ex gf. I'd never fly that
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was your ex g/f from Bangladesh. . .hello, thank you, come again!
hahahaha NO thankfully!!
Thank YOU, come again!!!
That thing is nothing compared to the 747. The 747 has made its mark in the sky as the king and nothin, even the A380 can take it away.
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The wave of the future might actually be AirTaxis which I hope to be able to cash in on one day. I personally prefer being able to fly in to much smaller, commuter or municple airports as oppose to DFW, ORD, ATL, etc. If only the cost of insurance wasn't so dog gone high I could actually afford my airplane!
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Originally posted by sigma:
Airlines didn't cancel the Concorde because they and passengers didn't want it, they cancelled the Concorde orders because the Oil Crisis made the price of jet fuel increase exponentially. It no longer made economic sense to use them. On the other hand, the economics behind the A380 become more and more apparent everyday which is why orders are still coming in.
I saw a documentary on the concorde a few weeks ago and they said the leading cause of its failure was the fact that it could only be flown into a very small number of aiports because of the noise. Yes, it did have high (comparibly) operating and maintaince costs, because it was WAY ahead of it's time.
I don't think huge planes are going to be all that popular in the future, people don't want to drive to one of the huge airports than can accomidate these things and spend the large amount of time loading and unloading everything (people and luggage), even if they use multiple jetways. The only real advantage of jumbo jets, IMO, is range. You can't fly a 737 halfway around the world without refueling, but these things can.
That airbus is pretty damn ugly for an airliner if you ask me. I am somewhat suprised that nobody commented on it being made by the French.
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That thing is nothing compared to the 747. The 747 has made its mark in the sky as the king and nothin, even the A380 can take it away.
Well kings might be remembered forever but they all eventually must give up the throne.
The 747 is all but dead. Boeing hasn't received an order for a passenger variant in years (since the A380 announcement) and has only received orders for 10 of them the past 5 years, all of which have been delivered. The only thing saving the 747 is the freight version and that's only because freight carriers fly to many places that won't be capable of handling the A380 for some time. But Boeing is still building more 747s every year than are being ordered, it will exaust its' entire backlog in just a few years (a fact that actually applies to all of Boeing's aircraft, just moreso the 747) shutting down the 747 line for the first time in 40 years.
Unless Boeing can somehow drum up some sales, the A380 is a major failure come airworthiness tests, or the air-freight market grows at an unexpected pace, production of the 747 will end by about 2010.
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I don't think huge planes are going to be all that popular in the future, people don't want to drive to one of the huge airports than can accomidate these things
You won't have to drive to the huge airports to fly them. These planes, like the 747s do today, will leave from the central hubs and fly to other central hubs. Chances are, unless you live in New York or LA, you'll fly a smaller plane to the larger airport, then get on the larger plane, just as most people do today.
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and spend the large amount of time loading and unloading everything (people and luggage), even if they use multiple jetways.
The A380 uses 4 jetways, the 747 only 1. That's 400% more capacity for a plane that only holds 20% more people. One of the major selling points for the A380 is the speed of which it unloads and loads. Gate dwell is too expensive for an airline to want an aircraft to sit there for hours.
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