A380 Airplane is as tall as an eight story building


The hoopla over the new Airbus 380 has been extraordinary one, and is fit for such a revolutionary and impressive aircraft. The appearance of the Airbus 380 has been keenly anticipated what appears to be ages now; but delays are only to be expected with an aircraft so complex and so new.

The engineers of the whole project went through some hard times with the well-publicized problem of the landing gear, for instance. The earth shaking pressures of landing a flying fortress is only to be expected to be an engineering nightmare, and about to happen with solutions that fit the problem will take some extra time, but now, it flies and lands victoriously.

The mind boggles at the size of the Airbus 380; quoting numbers and figures about the size of Airbus 380 could hardly sufficiently bring to anyone the magnitude of it. It would be like quoting astronomical figures i.e., no one can really understands what numbers that large mean.

Its height is compared to a tall giraffe; imagine it is standing tall and proud craning its neck skyward. This next part might take a stronger imagination, imagine four more giraffes that way one on top of another, five giraffes in all. In other way, this airplane is as tall as an eight story building.

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