Timboflier215 From United Kingdom, joined May 2005, 1247 posts, RR: 1 Reply 1, posted (7 years 3 months 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 7120 times:
thanks for the pics! i still cant make my mind up, though. from certain angles (such as side-on from a distance), it looks ugly. but from others, such as front-on or the angle that the first pic was taken from, its beautiful! shall have to wait and see it in person before i can fully judge i guess!
Revelation From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 10575 posts, RR: 21 Reply 4, posted (7 years 3 months 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 6794 times:
Quoting Alphafloor (Reply 3): Why Airbus did not paint that A380 completely ?
I believe the planes will be painted in Hamburg, no? So maybe she will be painted while she is there.
DAL767400ER From Germany, joined Feb 2005, 5721 posts, RR: 50 Reply 7, posted (7 years 3 months 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 4556 times:
Quoting Revelation (Reply 4): I believe the planes will be painted in Hamburg, no? So maybe she will be painted while she is there.
Correct, painting and interior outfitting will be done in XFW. And should anyone ever order a private A380, it would be outfitted a few miles further northwest at HAM .
A3xx900 From Germany, joined Jan 2004, 335 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (7 years 3 months 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 3742 times:
Quoting DAL767400ER (Reply 7): Correct, painting and interior outfitting will be done in XFW. And should anyone ever order a private A380, it would be outfitted a few miles further northwest at HAM Wink .
Those pictures were taken in Germany appearantly. In the last one you can see the sighn "Tor 2" which transalates to "Gate 2".
LTU932 From Germany, joined Jan 2006, 13864 posts, RR: 51 Reply 9, posted (7 years 3 months 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 3577 times:
Quoting DAL767400ER (Reply 7): And should anyone ever order a private A380, it would be outfitted a few miles further northwest at HAM
Problem is if HAM is ready to handle A380s right now, which I believe it isn't. So I doubt Lufthansa Technik Hamburg will be able to do such installations. It's either XFW or some other facility.
Quoting A3xx900 (Reply 8): So that painting will be done soon, eh?
I hope it's soon. Those primer colours don't do the A380 any justice.
DAL767400ER From Germany, joined Feb 2005, 5721 posts, RR: 50 Reply 10, posted (7 years 3 months 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 3221 times:
Quoting LTU932 (Reply 9): Problem is if HAM is ready to handle A380s right now, which I believe it isn't. So I doubt Lufthansa Technik Hamburg will be able to do such installations. It's either XFW or some other facility.
Actually,HAM is ready to handle the A380 (bar any regulations, of whose status(es) I'm not aware), as for one they are a diversion airport for XFW (should it ever happen that the weather at XFW is worse than at HAM ), but also because of said LHT facility. Now, the airport didn't widen their runways, but for 05/23, they handled the runway shoulder with a new type of lawn with a combo of a chemical (pretty much 'Spr�hkleber') that keeps gravel, grass and other stuff from being ingested by the A380's engines.
LTU932 From Germany, joined Jan 2006, 13864 posts, RR: 51 Reply 11, posted (7 years 3 months 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 2414 times:
Quoting DAL767400ER (Reply 10): Actually,HAM is ready to handle the A380 (bar any regulations, of whose status(es) I'm not aware), as for one they are a diversion airport for XFW (should it ever happen that the weather at XFW is worse than at HAM ), but also because of said LHT facility. Now, the airport didn't widen their runways, but for 05/23, they handled the runway shoulder with a new type of lawn with a combo of a chemical (pretty much 'Spr�hkleber') that keeps gravel, grass and other stuff from being ingested by the A380's engines.
Ah OK, I stand corrected then. Good to see that HAM will see some A380s every now and then.
But isn't there also an issue that Lufthansa Technik will not build a maintenance hangar at HAM? Maybe that's why I mixed up HAM and LHT being A380 ready. I only know that LHT in FRA will get an A380 maintenance hangar and eventually also MUC, but not HAM.
Finkenwerder From Germany, joined Apr 2005, 147 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (7 years 3 months 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 1224 times:
These pictures were taken outside Dock 1 Building 241 Airbus Hamburg.
Hamburg will see every A380 built...as they will all be painted and have IFE fitted here.
DAL767400ER From Germany, joined Feb 2005, 5721 posts, RR: 50 Reply 13, posted (7 years 3 months 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 1067 times:
Quoting LTU932 (Reply 11): But isn't there also an issue that Lufthansa Technik will not build a maintenance hangar at HAM?
No, it is indeed true that LHT won't be building a new hangar for the A380, for reasons that first, there would be simply no room for an additional hangar, and second, the few A380 movements they expect would not be worth tearing down and replacing one of the existing hangars. As a compromise, LHT has bought an 'extension' for their hangars. Don't ask for the exact terminology, but it is a rollable hangar that can be put in front of either of LHT's hangars, so that A346s and A380s can be completely inside the hangar, which before that was not possible.
AirbusA346 From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2004, 7434 posts, RR: 2 Reply 14, posted (7 years 3 months 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 1041 times:
Quoting DAL767400ER (Reply 13): As a compromise, LHT has bought an 'extension' for their hangars. Don't ask for the exact terminology, but it is a rollable hangar that can be put in front of either of LHT's hangars, so that A346s and A380s can be completely inside the hangar, which before that was not possible.
So, in other words a tent.
Tom.
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