When I heard about the Airbus A380 for the first time, I was a bit sceptical. Are airlines willing to use a plane of this size, with an enormous fuel consumption, in these days of rising fuel prices? Isn't it better to schedule two flights on a day, with smaller planes? Boeing, on the other side, is focusing on fuel efficient airplanes, like the Dreamliner, isn't that a better strategy?
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Today I went to the Redbull Air Race in Rotterdam with one of my classmates. I had never visited an air race before, so except of what I saw in the promotion videos, I didn't knew what to expect. Before even one plane had flown the track, the weather turned and it started raining very hard. The wind blew with 42 kilometres an hour. The first qualification round was postponed for half an hour.
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One of my classmates sent me an email containing a link to a panorama view of the Airbus A380 cockpit. It shows a highly detailed 360 degrees view of the cockpit.
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Today on college one of the teachers showed us a video of a nearly accident at Hamburg Airport in Germany. A Lufthansa Airbus A320 is approaching with strong crosswinds, and during the landing the wingtip strikes the runway.
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