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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 82.3.32.75 (talk) at 07:34, 1 February 2005 (List price in € or $?). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Listen, someone keeps changing project cost back to US Dollars, which to me makes absolutely no sense. Due to the fluctuating €-$ exchange rate, listing the price in USD is bound to make the price quote incorrect as the exchange rate changes. Since the project is run in Euro, price is expected to be stable if it is listed in Euros.

I've changed the project cost to Euro, as this is the currency unit of the project. The most recent source of the project cost I could find was http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9067-924014,00.html, which states the price to be £6.2 billion. This source is from December 2003, so I have used the £ to € exchange rate from December 1 (1.425 Euro for 1 Great Britain Pound).

This makes the most recent project cost €8.2 billion.

In all the articles I've read, the maximum speed is quoted as 0.89 Mach, and the cruising speed at about 0.85 Mach, which if I do my calculations correctly is about 940 km/h. Does anybody have a source for the 1000km/h+ claim? --Robert Merkel 05:08, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Mach varies with altitude and it depends on indicated airspeed. As there is no single Mach equivalent, this information is normally found in each airplane's flight manual carried onboard. Machmeter posesses altitude corrections hence very transparent to the flight crew. Direct translation of Mach to km/h must take account of altitude. Generally as the altitude increases, for the same Mach No, the km/h decreases.

To describe "Airbus Inc. Toulouse" as the manufacturer is certainly incorrect.

  1. Airbus Inc. doesn't exist to my knowledge, Airbus' US operations are under the title Airbus North America Holdings, Inc.
  2. Regardless of the name of this subsidiary why would it be designated the prime contractor of the A380 programme?
  3. The US susbidiary (regardless of name) is not be based in France.
  4. To describe Toulouse as the centre of manufacture is also to mischaracterise the A380 programme. Manufacture is carried out all over Europe, assembly is in Toulouse and Hamburg.

As such I have changed the manufacturer simply to Airbus. I think the correct term would be "Airbus S.A.S." but this may be too specific. I believe "Airbus Industrie" is an obsolete term. Mark 23:29, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Picture is now available

I'm not sure if someone wants to add it to the article, but a picture of the (almost complete) A380 is now available at Airliners.net - direct link is http://www.airliners.net/open.file/684291/L/

Hmmm. It seems that the license is not Wikipedia compatible. Excerpt from http://www.airliners.net/usephotos/
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first flight update?

Is there an update on when exactly in 2005 the first flight will take place? Jawed

There is an "unveiling" tomorrow , 18th Jan 2005 - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4174729.stm. Pcb21| Pete 12:20, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
First flight is currently planned for 2005-03-31. --Xeper 22:10, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Delivery - Singapore Airlines

Can someone tell me where the quoted section under Delivery, will receive the first A380 during the "first semester of 2006", comes from. The statement "first semester of 2006" sounds really strange in a discussion about aircraft and since it is quoted it must be from somewhere.

Ben W Bell 12:03, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

freight vs passenger order

A recent change separated the freight and passenger planes order into two columns. I doubt the accuracy of the numbers. For FedEx and UPS's order it is very clear the orders are not for passenger planes, but such assumption is not quite true the other way round. My brother works for Luthansa, he told me the German airline has many freight planes for their cargo business. I doubt the 15 planes ordered by Luthansa is all passenger planes. Kowloonese 22:08, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)

Extra space not necessarily well received

I think the statement about extra space being a well received feature is hard to prove at best: delta and american both tried to offer more roomy economy seats but gave up. No matter how big a plane, it's a trade off between economy and space and as long as travelers shop for price only space is going to lose.

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