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Airbus A380 hits small jet at JFK Airport

April 12, 2011 @ 10:00 pm

NBC has acquired a surveillance tape of Air France Flight 007, Airbus A380, hitting a smaller Comair Bombardier CRJ-700 while taxiing to the gate last night at JFK Airport in NYC. The video above shows the small plane being hit … Continue reading →

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Airplane brakes catch fire during rejected takeoff tests

May 19, 2008 @ 10:52 am

In aviation terminology, an RTO, or rejected takeoff, is when an aircraft must abort a takeoff due to suspected or actual airplane malfunction that would affect it during flight. The video above simulates a break test on an Airbus A380 … Continue reading →

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Airbus A380 takes its maiden flight

October 26, 2007 @ 2:09 am

Photo: Seth Jaworski; NSW Australia, October 25, 2007. On October 25, 2007, with 455 passengers on board (plus crew and pilots), the Airbus A380 belonging to Singapore Airlines made its maiden voyage from Changi Airport in Singapore to Sydney Airport … Continue reading →

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Airbus A380: First delivery panoramas

October 21, 2007 @ 9:33 pm

The image above is just a glimpse of the enormous economy class inside the new Airbus A380, currently the largest passenger airliner in the world. Gilles Vidal made some nifty panoramas of the exterior and interior of the new plane. … Continue reading →

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