Hooooee! Just saw an article about the new superjumbo Airbus A380. Biggest, most advanced commercial airliner ever built, but one of the most fuel efficient, too. Wow!<br><br>

Yup sooooo big that there's only 30 odd airports in the world that can handle it. FedEx is the launch customer, and are supposed to start getting them next year. The guys at the airport station are NOT happy, since we don't have enough foam in the city to cover the fuel carried by one of those airplanes. Not to mention it's built by the stinking French.<br><br><br>Salus populi suprema lex

Oh, yeah! <br>The accommodations will be amazing including a library, jail cell, and a spa.<br>But the airlines will soon realize that those three just take seats away which means losing revenue so I expect the library and spa to be replaced by seats in short order.<br>The other problem I am sure the airlines must have thought of is it is too big for parking areas. It is larger than a 747 so where do you park it?<br>Not my problem (any longer).<br><br>Boeing has a giant flying wing on the drawing boards. <br>The idea is that a fuseage does absolutely nothing to help a plane fly. <br>Aerodynamically the fuseage contributes nothing.<br>The plane will look like the B-2 stealth bomber.<br>It will hold 1000 passengers.<br>Again I ask...where do you park it?<br><br><br>

Park it hell. How would you like to be in the airport when two or three of those monsters arrive and disgorge 500 passengers each, at the same time. I went through Narita once when they had 4 747's unload at the same time and it was a mess. I can't imagine what these will be like. Hell it will take two hours just to load and unload all the passengers in the damn thing.<br><br><br>Salus populi suprema lex

I would like to fly in it once and that's it.<br>I am very much afraid of it for security reasons.<br><br><br>