Originally Posted by
KC10 FATboy
Holy crap? Seriously, how do you do that during a demo flight? Look at that wing flex. I want to have someone at Airbus look me straight in the face and say "the wing was designed to do that". Uh huh. I've never seen this thing land smoothly ... it's always a "firm" landing.
And who was the genius who decided that using reverse thrust over the grass was a good thing? Take a look at the last seconds of that video. They are sucking up debris into the engines.
Really Airbus? Really?
Remind me to never fly on this thing.
I believe only the inboard's have T/R...
It was hilarious people on jetcareers trying to justify an earthcrushing landing like that.
The wings flap up and down like that b/c they just tried to lower the field elevation, haha. If you look at a 747-400 or most any other very large widebody during a slammer or heavy turbulence, they do the same.