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Old 03-19-2007 | 05:08 AM
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Default A380 landing at JFK and LAX today

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,259530,00.html
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Old 03-19-2007 | 09:39 AM
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Interesting landing: http://www.cnn.com/video/player/play...us.landing.cnn
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Old 03-19-2007 | 09:43 AM
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It just isn't as pretty as the whale.
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Old 03-19-2007 | 10:24 AM
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Originally Posted by windowseat
CNN - Him: "This plane is huge. Look how it stretches all the way across, uh, the runway there. It's said to be, as wide, it's what, 260 feet wide."

CNN - Her: "Apparently wider than a football field."






Is it math, or is it sports? Is there an American adult that doesn't know a football field stretches from goal line to goal line 100 yards?
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Old 03-19-2007 | 10:31 AM
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What was with that landing at LAX? Full rudder deflection after touchdown and got sideways???

Weird.
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Old 03-19-2007 | 10:47 AM
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IMO if any Us airline buys it. It'll be US Airways. They seem to be into the airbus's more than boeings.
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Old 03-19-2007 | 11:16 AM
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Originally Posted by 757Driver
What was with that landing at LAX? Full rudder deflection after touchdown and got sideways???

Weird.

Not weird....scary. I dont think it was a crosswind.
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Old 03-19-2007 | 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by TonyC
CNN - Him: "This plane is huge. Look how it stretches all the way across, uh, the runway there. It's said to be, as wide, it's what, 260 feet wide."

CNN - Her: "Apparently wider than a football field."






Is it math, or is it sports? Is there an American adult that doesn't know a
football field stretches from goal line to goal line 100 yards?
But how wide is it?
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Old 03-19-2007 | 11:44 AM
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Originally Posted by viking767
But how wide is it?
Ummm....150 feet or either 50 yards...can't remember which.
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Old 03-19-2007 | 12:13 PM
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Just came across track Bravo with A-380 4,000 feet above us. Had to slow down our B757 for it to catch us. We got lots of pictures (collector items). Pilots said they had about 500 people on board headed for JFK, their fuel flow was 7,000 pounds per engine (X4). Funny thing was a British Airways B747-400 caught up with it circled around it a coupled times getting pictures and then went back to normal cruise speed and blew the doors off it. 40 year old technology airplane kicked it ass. Why would anyone want this slug?
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