Aviation Photo #1385420 Airbus A380-842 - Qantas

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Aircraft

Qantas
Airbus A380-842

Reg.: F-WWSK

MSN: 014

Location & Date

Hamburg - Finkenwerder (XFW / EDHI)
Germany - August 22, 2008

Caption

Here she is, the first A380 for Qantas airborn in full colours for a short testflight.

Photographer

Timo Soyke -[GSN]-

527 Germany

Contact Timo Soyke -[GSN]-

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Photo Added: August 26, 2008

Comments (40)

Anonymous

14 years ago

Simply stunning!!!

Anonymous

14 years ago

Great photo, great composition, and I gotta make me jealous... good thing the 380 is ready for Qantas... just in time to replace certain longreach 747 I saw sitting in MNL a few days ago ;)

Anonymous

14 years ago

Wonderful shot; note the refection of the u/c on the fuselage!

Anonymous

14 years ago

Absolutely beautiful!!! I would love to fly it very soon!

Anonymous

14 years ago

This is absolutely the aircraft I would love to fly to Australia in!! Great shot!

Anonymous

14 years ago

I love the reflections!

Anonymous

14 years ago

I love the vortices on the engine strakes, even though there dont seem to be any elsewhere on the airframe. Very nice to see this scheme on an airbourne A380.

Anonymous

14 years ago

Great photo, great plane. Thanks for sharing. This beauty is so clean :-) Look at fuselage, just amazing.

Anonymous

14 years ago

Wonderful shot - its got everything. You can even see Nancy Bird Walton on it. :-)

Anonymous

14 years ago

What a little bird! very impressive.. 5 stars

Anonymous

14 years ago

Very nice photo!
Btw, does anyone know what those vortexes are? They seem to come from the engines. Looks like streamline testing, but why would you do that on a plane that's already designed? Or is that an unused engine bleed?

Anonymous

14 years ago

Simply superb!

Anonymous

14 years ago

A new era soon to begin for Qantas !

Anonymous

14 years ago

Great picture mate love the airline too but not too sure about the aircraft although the A380 is bigger than the 747 it dosnt have the same class as it but still would be intresting too see, nayway once again great picture.

Anonymous

14 years ago

Simply magnificent

Anonymous

14 years ago

Kick it!! SuperDuper!!

Rgds Robin

Anonymous

14 years ago

Congratulations to this outstanding shot, thank you Timo! Lars ;-)

Anonymous

14 years ago

Absoluely majestic bird. i love the new updated kangaroo logo. and those engines, wow!!!

Anonymous

14 years ago

Its very impressive! what a bird!!

Anonymous

14 years ago

What a stunner! A gorgeous aircraft taken with great skill. Cheers!

Anonymous

14 years ago

What a beauty! Piture & Machine.

Anonymous

14 years ago

Thank you Lars! ;) Cheers Timo

Anonymous

14 years ago

Well done Timo, great picture. I really like the QF livery on the A380, it's my new desktop and it looks awesome. 5 stars for you :)

Anonymous

14 years ago

Ust an amazing picture

Anonymous

14 years ago

We all *know* the physics and aerodynamics going on in this shot. We *know* why those wings create lift causing the plane to rise. But...its SO amazing to see such a massive monster like this fly. Even after you know the science flight remains amazing. Excellent photo!

Anonymous

14 years ago

Those streams you see from near the engines are from the vortex generators fixed to the engine pods. Its peice of metal fixed to the pod at an optimum angle and its job is to generate a vortex. They delay airflow-seperation from the flying surface. It kind of "energizes" the airflow if you will. Depending on the humidity-level of the air these vortices become visible as the streams you see because the water-vapor condenses.

Anonymous

14 years ago

They did spend some time shining the belly

Anonymous

14 years ago

Great picture Timo, nice to see a GSN-pciture as a top-of-the-day ;)

Greetings from Bangkok

Anonymous

14 years ago

I love australia and i love qantas

Anonymous

14 years ago

Mighty!

Anonymous

14 years ago

Simply amazing, cant wait to see it for real, good luck Qantas!

Anonymous

14 years ago

An outstanding photo of a wonderful aircraft for a sensational airline. Bring home the Nancy Bird Walton to Charley Q

Anonymous

14 years ago

Absolutely Quantastique!

Anonymous

14 years ago

Nice job, the A380 looks very "whale" indeed.

Anonymous

14 years ago

Wow that is one helluva massive plane! I'm lovin it.

Anonymous

14 years ago

This is probably the best angle i have seen of the 380...and it's close up as well...small price to pay for not seeing all the engines...nice reflection on the underbelly....great shot.