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Several news agencies are reporting on the demise of the A380, an aircraft loved by passengers. European plane maker Airbus said Thursday it will stop making its superjumbo A380 in 2021 for lack of customers, abandoning the world's biggest passenger jet and one of the aviation industry's most ambitious and most troubled endeavors.
A slump in sales due to the airline industry moving to a point to point model make risk of empty seats on the A380 too much of a burden to make it profitable to operate.
Still the aircraft will remain in service for at least another 20 years.
https://www.designdevelopmenttoday.com/industries/aerospace/news/21047354/airbus-abandons-iconic-superjumbo-jet https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47231504
Previously: A380 Cancellations by Qantas Raise new Questions About the Superjumbo's Future
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 20 2019, @05:07AM (2 children)
i got to see one fly at Oshkosh and saw it fly low, near stall speed while doing a turn; I was kind of thinking of making a run for it in the opposite direction in a "oh the humanity" kind of way though it some how stuck to its intended path
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 20 2019, @08:43AM
Many years ago now I had a similar reaction the first time I was directly under a C-5 pulling a similar maneuver....it appeared to just stop and hang in the air, the 'threat awareness' part of my brain was screaming 'why isn't that fucking thing falling out of the sky?, run away!, flee!, flee!' and was seriously winning the fight against 'Mr Rational and his talk of aerodynamics.'
Still, not as scary as a laden B-52 suffering hydraulic 'issues' going over the top of the house at less than 100 ft in a mad dash to get to the nearest airport's runway..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 20 2019, @07:59PM
That's a perception issue, these are really big aircrafts, so even while traveling fast they appear to move very slowly.