I realised there must be a lot of coordination involved, but to see it from this perspective brings it to life. I know she's empty, but 120kts?! Seems mad.
Nice to see explained what has been demonstrated for a few years now.
BlueShamu330s From UK - England, joined Sep 2001, 2515 posts, RR: 25 Reply 2, posted (10 months 2 weeks 17 hours ago) and read 6701 times:
If ever there was a picture demonstrating the future ability of Airbus to stretch the A380, this must surely be it.
I imagine some day in the future, the -800 will look like the stubby relation of the family, like the A318, when the -900 starts rolling off the line. Now THAT will be one impressive aircraft.
Rgds
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Given the size of those wings, it doesn't surprise me at all. There's probably even a comfy margin before she stalls altogether.
Talk about slow, I read here recently that the flight envelope controls let pilots fly it to 96kts (or was it 93kts?) during the air displays. I'll try to find the reference.
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Reply 61, posted Tue Jul 10 2012 09:53:04 your local time (1 day 6 hours 59 minutes ago) and read 4122 times:
I talked to an Airbus A380 test engineer at Farnborough in 2010; when they do their low pass they let the envelope protection give them min speed (I think it's the alpha-prot law that kicks in). For that loading, it's about 93 knots. It's amazing.
Tugg
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astuteman From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2005, 9137 posts, RR: 96 Reply 5, posted (10 months 2 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 6177 times:
Quoting tugger (Reply 4): Talk about slow, I read here recently that the flight envelope controls let pilots fly it to 96kts (or was it 93kts?) during the air displays.
Is there any other commercial airliner ( >100 seat jet) that can do that, I wonder?
knoxibus From France, joined Aug 2007, 200 posts, RR: 21 Reply 6, posted (10 months 2 weeks 4 hours ago) and read 5652 times:
There is a video on youtube (sorry if we are not allowed to give names of other sites), I believe from 2001 PAS Le Bourget with the A340-600 demo (and I think it lasts like 6 or 8 minutes).
And the fact is that you actually a camera in the cockpit throughout the demo. Amzing footage. You can really feel the strain the test pilots are under.
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