Airbus A380 Landing Tests

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

This gave me a "holy crap!" moment. It's a movie of an Airbus A380 doing maximum crosswind landing tests in Iceland.

 

[Skrying]

Whoa, its kinda weird but that massive aircraft almost looked light in that video. The crosswind being able to move it like that is really crazy.

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

You can see how they glide it down diagonally to compensate for the crosswind and then they straighten it up in the last few seconds. Look at the wingtips bend as it touches down in the slow-mo. Totally bonkers.

 

[Powderkeg]

I was expecting more.

This is not a test.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2fzJ5Xjcmg

 

[RussSchultz]

My last trip to hong kong ended in an aborted landing. That's kinda scary.

 

[Fred]

All those major airplanes have computers that calculate their trajectory more or less on the dime, its about as safe as you can ever be.

The only dangerous moment is on takeoff (where say both engines have to fail for their to be a big problem), once a big plane has altitude and speed they can survive jsut about any catastrophic situations you can imagine.

 

[jamesnmandy]

yeah, the first minute or so after lifting off is the time i am really "aware" of whats going on, because this is when things go bad

or when you take the pilot out of the cockpit.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUermaEQ-0s

 

[KBeee]

All those major airplanes have computers that calculate their trajectory more or less on the dime, its about as safe as you can ever be.

The only dangerous moment is on takeoff (where say both engines have to fail for their to be a big problem), once a big plane has altitude and speed they can survive jsut about any catastrophic situations you can imagine.

Would you feel safe if it was running WindowsXP?

 

[Ike Turner]

yeah, the first minute or so after lifting off is the time i am really "aware" of whats going on, because this is when things go bad

or when you take the pilot out of the cockpit.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUermaEQ-0s

Err no. The video narator is totaly wrong. That's an Air France Airbus A320 air show that went wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_296

 

[Maintank]

I have seen some 777 crowsswind testing, impressive to say the least.