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By: A380: Quite a Ride | change-direction.com

A380: Quite a Ride | change-direction.com — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:08:54 +0000

[...] A380: Quite a Ride I was privileged to have been invited to fly the Airbus A380 in Toulouse last week. I think it took about 4 seconds for me to decide when I was asked if I wanted the job of flying, evaluating and then writing up my findings on a few new pieces of on-board electronics to this big bird. The assignment came with the chance to spend an hour or so at the tiller and the side stick of the 380. The major results of my evaluation will be found in an upcoming story on the aircraft in Aviation Internation [...]

By: Court

Court — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:02:29 +0000

We’re all airplane geeks, Rob. ESPECIALLY you!

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:25:07 +0000

Rob – Congrats on this great flight experience. I enjoyed listening to you speak about it on the podcast.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:45:58 +0000

I seriously think the A380 is too big to fill a market now dominated by advanced long range jetliners like the Boeing 777-300 and A330-340, combined with numerous technical difficulties it seems rather ironic that such a big airliner can honestly survive a distressed market. The A380 will be attending EAA AirVenture and let’s hope they can turn it around on Aero Shell Square. I t would be nice to see you post the new Gulfstream 650 as a photo image instead……Cheers!!

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:06:45 +0000

I’m anxious to read your findings, Mark. The A380 is one BIG bird.