Airbus A380 @ Manchester

[Technologic]

Emirates launch their first A380 service to a regional airport in Manchester, by replacing a 777 with the A380 on one of their twice daily Manchester-Dubai flights, tomorrow making it one of only 6 European airports to accept the plane. I'm just interested in seeing if anybody's been on one or even seen one before...

Personally i've never seen one and i think it'll be quite interesting to see (My next door neighbours are going on the inaugral flight to Dubai in first class!)

[iBlueBox]

Im going to manchester airport next month, if its their i might take some pictures.

[xxMATTGxx]

Yeah should be a good sight to see tomorrow, shame I won't have the chance to go anywhere near it.

[xxMATTGxx]

http://mattgarner.net/upload/images/1283546189.jpg

http://mattgarner.net/upload/images/1283531270.jpg

[Hecktix]

I saw it when I was driving along the M60.

[Apple]

It is gigantic, you can't really scale the size of it when it is in the sky but when it is on the ground my god it is something to see! Hopefully one day I get to fly on it. :P

[cocaine]

i was on my way to ski trip in italy (on a coach lol) and a singapore airlines a380 passed over us on landing while we were on the M25... damnn its huge.

[Technologic]

awesome photos matt!

[Mathew]

My uncle lives under the flight path to Heathrow, so we saw one of these beasts flying a couple of months ago. Absolutely huge and (we found) surprisingly quiet too.

It just doesn't look like it should lift off the ground. Such a shame that aircrafts are going back in time with Concorde retiring.. now that was simply the pinnacle of man's achievement. Still, the A380 is a great plane.

[Technologic]

My uncle lives under the flight path to Heathrow, so we saw one of these beasts flying a couple of months ago. Absolutely huge and (we found) surprisingly quiet too.

It just doesn't look like it should lift off the ground. Such a shame that aircrafts are going back in time with Concorde retiring.. now that was simply the pinnacle of man's achievement. Still, the A380 is a great plane.

Yeah, one flew over my house today. First time i've seen it for real and it is massive!

[Apple]

Saw it fly over my house a few days ago, apparently it will be doing everyday or something at around 12:20am which is obviously about the time I saw it. It was gliding really slow, must of been waiting for a slot to land, I got a video of it but it looks crap on my phone.

[Technologic]

Saw it fly over my house a few days ago, apparently it will be doing everyday or something at around 12:20am which is obviously about the time I saw it. It was gliding really slow, must of been waiting for a slot to land, I got a video of it but it looks crap on my phone.

Aye, it lands daily at 12:25pm and takes off at 14:10pm. However, todays has been delayed by like 4 hours because it had a hard landing in the wind after having to do a touch and go so theyre checking it over

[xxMATTGxx]

awesome photos matt!

Thanks! In regards of the touch and go or even a go around, was this at Manchester?

[Technologic]

Thanks! In regards of the touch and go or even a go around, was this at Manchester?

Yeah, the flights still not departed. Apparently it's being checked over by a maintenance team atm

[Tintinnabulate]

it flies over my house so when I am home around half 12, I will keep an eye out.

[kuzkasate]

Yeah, I was in Frankfurt yesturday at the airport, returning to Manchester and seen one of these beasts, my plane looked like a bird compare to it! Bloody amazing though!

[Tintinnabulate]

Imagine driving on a motorway and seeing this ...

http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/11/singaporea3802.jpg

[syko2006]

Imagine driving on a motorway and seeing this ...

http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/11/singaporea3802.jpg

:O Oh my! That is one extremely large aeroplane!

[xxMATTGxx]

:O Oh my! That is one extremely large aeroplane!

http://mattgarner.net/upload/images/1283861585.png

Some interesting facts.

[xxMATTGxx]

Yeah, the flights still not departed. Apparently it's being checked over by a maintenance team atm


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xEj9RosE2E

Shame it doesn't show it all. :(

[Technologic]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xEj9RosE2E

Shame it doesn't show it all. :(

Yeah. Apparently one of the gears has been quite badly damaged so they're urgently trying to source parts

[Sharon]

Im going to manchester airport next month, if its their i might take some pictures.

SO AM I +REP lmao.

Ouch. +awesome.

[xxMATTGxx]

Yeah. Apparently one of the gears has been quite badly damaged so they're urgently trying to source parts

Seems like two stories are going around really, been reading that it actually has a electrical fault.

[Tintinnabulate]

wooo might be going on it next month. Possibly going India next month and all tickets from Manchester to where I need to go, go through Dubai on A380 (a).