No matter how many times you watch it, it's just so tense. And then when you see it take off, it's just incredible, that something that big can take-off and fly so smoothly!
This aircraft might not have been successful commercially, but it sure as hell was a home run in terms of engineering. Just imagine how the French were able to put a double-decker into the air only a little over one hundred years after the Wright brothers took flight. If it's not success, I'm not sure what is.
If A380 wasn't built, nobody in the aviation industry would have taken Airbus seriously, they would have been in the realm of embraer/lockheed/bombardier. Thanks to A380, they can sell their profitable products. That's what people don't consider when they talk about A380.
Airbus was already a major player in aerospace industry before A380 was even built. They already cater to short haul, narrowbody market with their A320s and mid-long haul, widebody with their A300s, A330s and A340s. The A380s will only be profitable in high density routes, which is why only a handful of airliners fly them. Flying half full A380 would be like flying two twinjets with one of them empty.
Very EPIC!!😊✨ How far have we come since the Wright Flyer went along the rails then into the air. Imagine what humanity will accomplish with flying machines 100 years from now! 🤔🧐. It’s going to be EPIC!! 😊✨
Was 40 years late to the market unfortunately, they should have tried to capitalise and develop a freight variant in my opinion, but they stuck with passengers. There are obviously commercial reasons overall as to why it failed ultimately, but I still can’t stop appreciating that we got something that size off the ground.
@@brizzle3903 The 747 was designed around using 4 of the biggest, most powerful engines available at the time. The size of engines needed for an A380 hadn't been developed yet. If the A380 had come out in the early 70's, it would certainly have put the 747, the DC-10 and the Lockheed TriStar in the shade.
I wonder what it would’ve been like had Airbus released this plane at the same time the Boeing 747 came out? It’s unfortunate this plane didn’t come out until 2005
only in sales, technologically, the A380 is a success of mammoth proportions, it only failed because it was built for a bygone era of super massive planes, the A350 can owe it's existence to the A380 as many technologies that the A350 uses were first introduced and streamlined by the A380, Airbus also uses one of its A380s as a testbed for new technologies. calling the A380 a "complete failure" is an insult to the engineers that spent years designing this technologically advanced giant of the skies
@@5-Consecutive-Hairpin-Turns “Only in sales” lol That’s the whole point of developing the thing is to sell them and earn the money back in the massively over budget A380 program. Sorry to hurt the feelings but it’s a factual statement. Had Airbus developed that thing 25 years earlier it may have been a true success. The 747-8 uses a lot of the same technologies found on the 787 but the-8 was a failure as well but the entire 747 family program (except for the 747SP) was/is an example of a successful program.
@@apieceofdirt4681 yes the A380 didnt sell and it was massively a overbudget project but you can thank the a380 for all modern airbus aircraft, the a320 and a330 neo use and benefit from technologies that were pioneered by the a380, the a330 and a320/21 neo are both massively successful and profitable aircraft. the a350s composites are pioneered by the a380 and it would be much harder and more expensive to develop the newer airbus aircraft without it. the a380 walked so the a330/ a320 neo/ a350 could run, even if it came at the cost of sales. winglets, a380, composites, a380, cabin lights, a380 flight control systems, a380 newer and larger factories, a380. so it wasn't a commercial success but it was an engineering challenge who's technologies would make their way into newer aircraft and support airbus' success.
Airbus made up for it by dominating in other areas, look at how Boeing has struggled over the years because of the 737/787 screw ups, Airbus is eating their lunch
