DAYflyer From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 3807 posts, RR: 4 Reply 1, posted (6 years 2 months 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 19753 times:
Thats funny! Only CNN could come up with that one.
SEPilot From United States of America, joined Dec 2006, 6258 posts, RR: 39 Reply 3, posted (6 years 2 months 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 19433 times:
I liked Whalejet; I do not consider it derogative at all (as some on this forum seem to think.)
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PanAm747 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 4242 posts, RR: 10 Reply 7, posted (6 years 2 months 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 18651 times:
Am I the only one disturbed by how much the A380 resembles the manatee in that picture?
Of course, in the Airbus scheme, that would technically make her a "white elephant".
Did anyone get to see her in L.A.? I wanted to get up there, but work would not permit it.
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RL757PVD From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 4537 posts, RR: 13 Reply 8, posted (6 years 2 months 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 18500 times:
Quoting PanAm747 (Reply 7): Am I the only one disturbed by how much the A380 resembles the manatee in that picture?
The picture, or the fact that it was an endangered species?
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Ikramerica From United States of America, joined exactly 8 years ago today! , 21029 posts, RR: 60 Reply 9, posted (6 years 2 months 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 18403 times:
Quoting PanAm747 (Reply 7): Did anyone get to see her in L.A.? I wanted to get up there, but work would not permit it.
It was sort of like a teenager's first time having sex. Years of build up, hours of anticipation, 30 seconds of fun and confusion that went way too fast, then a lot of talking about it afterward.
Of all the things to worry about... the Wookie has no pants.
FXramper From United States of America, joined Dec 2005, 7027 posts, RR: 93 Reply 10, posted (6 years 2 months 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 18294 times:
Quoting Ikramerica (Reply 9):
It was sort of like a teenager's first time having sex. Years of build up, hours of anticipation, 30 seconds of fun and confusion that went way too fast, then a lot of talking about it afterward.
Good analogy. To be honest, with all the press I've read about in online and seeing pictures/threads on Anet about it, it was sort of disappointing to watch live at the airport today.
Stirling From Italy, joined Jun 2004, 3943 posts, RR: 27 Reply 11, posted (6 years 2 months 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 18223 times:
Is it my imagination?
Or could a 737/320 fuselage fit within the space of one of the A380 engines?
Those things are enormous! Are they bigger than those on the 777?
You would think the size of the overall aircraft would produce an illusion of the engines being small, like on the A340, but no, they still appear larger than life!
And there was a song, it was popular when I was in High School, I used to think it was so funky, anyone remember? "She's a bad Mamma Jamma"......
FLY2LIM From United States of America, joined May 2004, 1183 posts, RR: 11 Reply 12, posted (6 years 2 months 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 18180 times:
Quoting Ikramerica (Reply 9): It was sort of like a teenager's first time having sex. Years of build up, hours of anticipation, 30 seconds of fun and confusion that went way too fast, then a lot of talking about it afterward.
Sorry yours lasted only 30 seconds, and it was confusing.
777fan From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 2402 posts, RR: 3 Reply 13, posted (6 years 2 months 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 18071 times:
Hehe - take a look at the first paragraph of the article on CNN's website (fair use excerpt): "...flying on football field-length wings and a prayer that the American airline industry will want to buy the double-decker jumbo jet."
Starlionblue From Hong Kong, joined Feb 2004, 15871 posts, RR: 66 Reply 14, posted (6 years 2 months 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 18022 times:
Quoting Stirling (Reply 11): Or could a 737/320 fuselage fit within the space of one of the A380 engines?
Those things are enormous! Are they bigger than those on the 777?
They are not. But there is overlap at the low end of the 777-200 range:
A380-800 engines - 70000-84000 lb thrust.
777 engines - 74000-115000 lb thrust
Remember that quads have proportionally less powerful engines due to the math of engine out requirements.
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Tristarfreak From United States of America, joined Mar 2007, 125 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (6 years 2 months 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 18020 times:
Flyorski From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 978 posts, RR: 1 Reply 16, posted (6 years 2 months 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 17983 times:
Very funny name. The MammaJamma is just hilarious! Great job to CNN for thinking up such a name!
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Ikramerica From United States of America, joined exactly 8 years ago today! , 21029 posts, RR: 60 Reply 19, posted (6 years 2 months 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 17790 times:
FlyDreamliner From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 2759 posts, RR: 15 Reply 20, posted (6 years 2 months 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 17519 times:
Nope, it looks like a manitee... No wonder Airbus is having such a hard time lately, it's all in marketing. Boeing gives us Worldliner, Dreamliner, and The Intercontinental, Airbus on the other hand gives us the flying manitee, or 'whalejet,' if you are feeling nice.
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EI321 From Iraq, joined Jul 2009, 0 posts, RR: 0 Reply 22, posted (6 years 2 months 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 17444 times:
Quoting FlyDreamliner (Reply 20): Nope, it looks like a manitee... No wonder Airbus is having such a hard time lately, it's all in marketing. Boeing gives us Worldliner, Dreamliner, and The Intercontinental, Airbus on the other hand gives us the flying manitee, or 'whalejet,' if you are feeling nice.
What are you on about? Airbus has not given the A380 any such name.
Confuscius From United States of America, joined Aug 2001, 3634 posts, RR: 2 Reply 23, posted (6 years 2 months 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 17445 times:
I still like Skytanic. It's huge and grandiose and just hit a production design iceberg.
Rammstein From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 24, posted (6 years 2 months 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 17368 times:
Quoting FlyDreamliner (Reply 20): No wonder Airbus is having such a hard time lately, it's all in marketing. Boeing gives us Worldliner, Dreamliner, and The Intercontinental, Airbus on the other hand gives us the flying manitee, or 'whalejet,' if you are feeling nice.
26 Glidepath73: Some say AIRBOSS, I still like SUPER JUMBO or MEGALINER..... Regards, Patrick
27 Himmelstormer: Well, 'Worldliner' would actually be an appropriate name for the B787 considering that the majority of the plane is built outside the US. I also thin
28 Qantas744ER: When a engine on a plane fails... during takeoff cruise or Landing. leo
30 Nitrohelper: The picture sure shows a strong family resemblance to the manatee from the front, but I think WhaleJet is a better name. The 380's body is more "whal
31 TeamREGAL: As stumpy as this plane looks in the pics, I honestly believe there would have been no way around as a double-decker.
32 PlanenutzTB: I did see it. It landed right after a United 747-4, so that took away a little of the wow factor on the size. I was more impressed looking at it stra
33 Wideglider: Uh, a US football field is 100 yards or 300 feet. The term "Flying Football Field" is not that far off.
34 EI321: Any more names? I can only think of something like 'Megajet'. It seems 'Superjumbo' has become synonymous with the aircraft now, which reminds me, whe
35 ExFATboy: So do I - was actually thinking about that this morning waiting for my flight out of SRQ, eating breakfast right next to the manatee sculpture over t
36 Detroitflyer: so which airport actually got it first??? JFK OR LAX???
42 Confuscius: Brilliant! Perfectly brilliant! Thanks. I wished I could take credit but... The delays in what industry insiders have nicknamed the "Toulouse Goose" -
43 Starlionblue: As Qantas744 points out, it's when an engine fails. The point being that takeoff power calculations are made assuming that one engine goes out at the
44 Antskip: Yep. Superjumbo was used today in an article on the A380: http://www.theage.com.au/news/travel...ory/2007/03/20/1174153016857.html. Some of the other
46 AsstChiefMark: You forget that the term "jumbo" was first used to describe a clumsy person. Later, it was the name of this creature in the London Zoo. http://www.wo
47 Dougloid: One plane watcher in todays LA Times said "Man that thing looks like a giant sperm whale!" Personally, I prefer Albatross....big, white, looming and
48 Drewwright: How about the eurotross. Try saying THAT 3 times fast. Heck even the Beast wouldnt be a bad name. That thing has absolutly no asthetic appeal whatso e
51 Nitrohelper: Thanks for that one, I was in the Spruce Goose when it was at Long Beach . If there are many more cancellations the the current test models could be
52 PlanenutzTB: ROTFLMAO!! The perfect name! There are similarities in shape to a goose and financially to the Spruce Goose. Being born and raised in Long Beach, CA,
53 Floridaflyboy: Oh my god, I LOVE IT!!! That's what they should call it.
54 K0dxx: LAX controllers were calling it Super Heavy today.
59 RkFast: It was not lost on THIS observer that neither landing yesterday was very smooth. Go watch the videos. At JFK, she bounced so hard, the wings bent up a
60 Starlionblue: Good landings are not defined by smoothness. Unless you slam her down so hard your fillings come loose the landing is fine from that perspective. Goo
61 Revelation: Uhmm, that description doesn't make me think of an airplane!
62 AF1624: This is absolutely true. The wings of the A380 were made THAT flexible because If they were less flexible they simply would break right on the middle
63 AF1624: An example : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHrLB_mlir4
64 AirportGal: Thank-you! that comparison has bugged me from the get-go!
65 Theredbaron: I wonder how long will it take for a U.S Airline to order this plane... And how many will protest it, for even the most innane reasons..... Concorde w
66 SBN580: Has anyone come up with the Hindenjet? You are judging CNN on that, one word? There are a lot of media types of whatever network who have a hard time
67 Highflier92660: The A380 looks like a Boeing 747SP on steroids. Whenever they get around to stretching it she'll look a lot more graceful. Did anyone catch NBC's resi
68 Starlionblue: I hadn't thought of that but you are probably right. Some people just like to complain about anything different and new. Those people become grumpy o
69 ExFATboy: Oh, they'll have a reason - "it encourages affordable air travel, which is driving global warming! AAAHHHHHH!!! The poor polar bears!" Don't say I di
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