Airbus A380 Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections HD_HD

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Introduction25 October 2007 (with Singapore Airlines)StatusIn servicePrimary usersEmirates Singapore Airlines Lufthansa QantasProduced2005–presentNumber built187 as of 30 April 2016[2]Unit cost US$432.6 million (2016)[3] The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine jet airliner manufactured byEuropean Union manufacturer Airbus.[4][5][6] It is the world's largest passenger airliner, and the airports at which it operates have upgraded facilities to accommodate it. It was initially named Airbus A3XX and designed to challenge Boeing's monopoly in the large-aircraft market. The A380 made its first flight on 27 April 2005 and entered commercial service in October 2007 with Singapore Airlines. The A380's upper deck extends along the entire length of the fuselage, with a width equivalent to a wide-body aircraft. This gives the A380-800's cabin 550 square metres (5,920 sq ft) of usable floor space,[7] 40% more than the next largest airliner, the Boeing 747-8,[8] and provides seating for 525 people in a typical three-class configuration or up to 853 people in an all-economy classconfiguration. The A380-800 has a designrange of 8,500 nautical miles (15,700 km), sufficient to fly nonstop from Dallas, USA toSydney, Australia, and a cruising speed ofMach 0.85 (about 900 km/h, 560 mph or 490 kn at cruising altitude). As of March 2016, Airbus had received 319 firm orders and delivered 184 aircraft;Emirates is the biggest A380 customer with 140 on order and 75 delivered.[2] Background In mid-1988, Airbus engineers led by Jean Roeder began work in secret on the development of an ultra-high-capacity airliner (UHCA), both to complete its own range of products and to break the dominance that Boeing had enjoyed in this market segment since the early 1970s with its 747.[9] McDonnell Douglasunsuccessfully offered its smaller, double-deck MD-12 concept for sale.[10][11] Roeder was given approval for further evaluations of the UHCA after a formal presentation to the President and CEO in June 1990. Themegaproject was announced at the 1990Farnborough Air Show, with the stated goal of 15% lower operating costs than the 747-400.[12] Airbus organised four teams of designers, one from each of its partners (Aérospatiale, British Aerospace, Deutsche Aerospace AG, CASA) to propose new technologies for its future aircraft designs. The designs were presented in 1992 and the most competitive designs were used.[13] In January 1993, Boeing and several companies in the Airbus consortium started a joint feasibility study of a Very Large Commercial Transport (VLCT), aiming to form a partnership to share the limited market.[14][15] This joint study was abandoned two years later, Boeing's interest having declined because analysts thought that such a product was unlikely to cover the projected $15 billion development cost. Despite the fact that only two airlines had expressed public interest in purchasing such a plane, Airbus was already pursuing its own large plane project. Analysts suggested that Boeing would instead pursue stretching its 747 design, and that air travel was already moving away from the hub and spoke system that consolidated traffic into large planes, and toward more non-stop routes that could be served by smaller planes.[16] For more videos please Subscribe us on:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI7XjqDQOt4tJFVhE24Zl1Q