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Why Is It A380?  
User currently offlineBio15 From Colombia, joined Mar 2001, 1088 posts, RR: 11
Posted (11 years 2 months 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 1125 times:

Does anyone know why airbus's new aircraft was designated the A380 and not the A350?

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User currently offlineSccutler From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 4884 posts, RR: 32
Reply 1, posted (11 years 2 months 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 1095 times:

'Cuz that's what they wanted to call it?

Or maybe, since they wanted to leave room between the 340 and the 3xx for intermediate-sized aircraft, in the belief (logical) that it was unlikely that they'd go any larger than the 380-family.


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User currently offlineWidebody From Ireland, joined Aug 2000, 1148 posts, RR: 10
Reply 2, posted (11 years 2 months 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 1086 times:

Do a search in the Civil Aviation section, it's been discussed a good few times before.......

User currently offlineAaskygod From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 3, posted (11 years 2 months 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 1077 times:

I read in Airliner World that the "8" is a not-too-subtle reference to the double-decker fuselage's cross-section: an "8".

User currently offlineSrbmod From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 16223 posts, RR: 57
Reply 4, posted (11 years 2 months 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 1058 times:		 AIRLINERS.NET CREW
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They chose the designation 380 because the plane is essentially two 340 fuselages stacked on top of each other (at least that's what Airbus says).


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User currently offlineGOT From Sweden, joined Dec 2000, 1912 posts, RR: 2
Reply 5, posted (11 years 2 months 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 1033 times:

someone wrote about that the days after the relase of the name. It wasn't A350 because it was to close to A340. I don't remeber why it wasn't A360 but 7 I think was a number for bad luck in Asia, where Airbus will sell most of the new A380's. 8 is a luck number in Asia and it's twice the size of an A340.

GOT


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