September 26, 20196 yr Hi guys, Even though this article is about Thomas Cook demise, but there is this pic with plane with 2 engines. I can not recall that 747 is that big. What plane is it? I can't tell. The people look so tiny compared to those massive engines. Is that the Airbus 380? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/24/business/thomas-cook-airlines-bankruptcy.html Thanks How I Evaluate Third Party Sim Addon Developers Refined P3Dv5.0 HF2 Settings Part1 (has MaddogX) and older thread Part 2 (has PMDG 747)
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September 26, 20196 yr Most likely this one: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/5m865/#2237f797 Brian W KPAE
September 26, 20196 yr Author Wow - thanks guys. Never realized on how massive the A380 is.....it is sad that are stopping production on this giant big bird How I Evaluate Third Party Sim Addon Developers Refined P3Dv5.0 HF2 Settings Part1 (has MaddogX) and older thread Part 2 (has PMDG 747)
September 27, 20196 yr Not only stopping production. Emirates has already scrapped their first A380s because they are unsalable, and other Airlines are starting to phase it out. Besides being the wrong aircraft at the wrong time, the main problem is its too big wing which produces too much drag. The wing has been designed to work perfectly with the stretched A380-900 (almost 1000 pax) but this never happened.
September 27, 20196 yr I suspect that is the HiFly A380. Christopher Low AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU / 64GB DDR5-6000 RAM / 12GB Nvidia RTX 4070 Super GPU / Gigabyte X870E Aorus Elite Wifi 7 / 1+2TB Samsung Evo Plus M2 Nvme UK2000 Beta Tester
September 27, 20196 yr Didn't you notice that the diameter of the inboard engine is much bigger than the outboard engine!? I assume this a 747 flying testbed for a 777 engine
September 27, 20196 yr 48 minutes ago, jcorstjens said: Didn't you notice that the diameter of the inboard engine is much bigger than the outboard engine!? I assume this a 747 flying testbed for a 777 engine That was funny 😂
September 27, 20196 yr Or perhaps it's something to do with being on a swept wing so the inboard is closer to the camera... lol. Definitely a A380, I saw the whole thing on the TV in a report on the Thomas Cook collapse. My immediate thought was "wow, somebody's going to get an unusually comfortable flight home from Antalya!"
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