Airbus A380 Crosswind Landing

[ianwalkerdownland]

what angle was that to the runway before it straightened, now that did look extreme.

[raulox71]

Wow, those pilots are good.

[Waroftheworlds112]

It's not really the plane thats up to the test, its the pilots and the Airbus company.

[imbarisaxy]

omg that plane is an orgasm so beautiful:) thats my dream to fly one day or a 747, mainly the a380 tho:)

[eeektavius]

They landed that Behemoth in Gale force winds!

[youfallhard]

lol at the beginning its like a flying whale going sideways lol

[P3RSIANpinoy]

beautiful plane, beautiful reporter :D

[petisojavier]

@P3RSIANpinoy ??????????????????????????????­????

[P3RSIANpinoy]

@petisojavier stupid much??????????

[Zoonjse]

Hi. The aircraft was completely white in in this video because it was still in test-flying.

I've heard that the aircraft can take up to 800 passengers if the upper classes are removed. Thats due to inner walls and sections on the plane that take it's space.

Joe.

[jizzmonger]

When have 800 people ever wanted to go anywhere this place can land at the same time?

[Lunarlaserranging]

when he said six landings and five take offs was he talking in terms of tests as if you had only taken of five times you would not be able to land six times. what did he mean exactly?

[cyberyiyo]

@Lunarlaserranging They came in from Toulouse and landed at Keflavic. Then they took off 5 times and landed 5 times. At the moment of the coverage the aircraft was still in Keflavic, that's the reason of the 6 Land & 5 TO. When thay left Keflavic then you have the 6 Land & 6 TO.

[TheGuest87]

i heard it caris 555 passingers right?

[kingmaster450]

the A380 is 286 inches long. btw there is no aperator. its just white in this, weird.

[mbtkabjd]

weird. the wingspan is longer than the planes length

[Bdude129]

Wow, the Boeing 757 has gotten bigger.

[amarrao95]

hot

[schlusselmensch]

SMOOTH operator. And speaking English! Gotta love the little guy!

Did you see the documentary where a prodigious savant from the UK learned to speak Icelandic in a week!

It's on YT somewhere. Freaking amazing.

[yashberawala14]

Pretty crazy news

[mrhumperleg]

look at that size differene at 1:56 thats amazing

[729Nur]

Well that's the equivalent of an airplane drifting ... Literally.

[gilgtc]

its called crabbing in paragliding terms :)

[nils169]

Funny language. Well something I understand. I speak German, Swedish and english. Very nice landing and very nice reporter!

[skitmen]

This language is so..... different xD

and that chick xD 1:46

[gent30x]

Awesome landing

[cadillacjim75]

So THAT'S what Icelandic sounds like.

What a beautiful language.

What a beautiful news reporter!!

[TheJeffreyklm]

@cadillacjim75  and what a terrible vulcano!

[petisojavier]

@cadillacjim75 ??????????????????????????????­

[habbadou]

The A320 makes quite a racket. This thing in an amazing beast of a bird.

[Mr6Chuck5Taylor1]

thats not a 320 it's a 380. newer and alot bigger

[Jakaroukla]

at 1,47 ,are those liquid tanks filled with chemicals ?

[StinkyCheeser]

Prob. with water... to simulate the load of passengers... this was an expiriment to test the ability of landing in crosswinds

[jum401]

@Jakaroukla chemicals do not exist. Unless ofc they do, but if they do, it's for the benefit of all. To save the earth or something. Anyway, no need to worry...

[Shmooooon]

hahaha you can see the oldmans script running in the reflection of the window behind him at the start!

[dalequarmby]

oh yeah lol

[Coloscopy79]

Super skills from the Pilot !

[bratonabike]

yea i flew in an A380 from LAX to kingsford smith intl in Australia flying qantas and it was so nice and quiet to! much more quiet than a 747

[fernousdu972]

A wonderful experience that the A380 is !

[kvnnagel]

must be like flying a sheet of plywood while on its edge...lol

[thibaulthalpern]

Umm...Icelandic sounds yuck ;-) :)

[eikisturla]

oh really? Based on this one story or do u have some experience with the language?

[thibaulthalpern]

Based on this story. I don't need another story. All I'm saying is that to my ears it sounds a little yucky. I also don't like the sound of Danish. I LOVE the sound of Dutch and Portuguese.

[luv25jan09]

BiG Bird! :)

[AbahZabah]

She was hot.

[thegas84]

i live in bristol which helped build this plane, it flew over my house one day and it was so low i almost had a heart attack

[flagelobraz]

best pilot

[7Kronos]

20 years and it's still the same test pilot in airbus (the man with the french accent). This guy is top skilled.

[76auth]

I like 1:47 - 1:57, sounds like a tongue-twister!

Cool plane too.

[SomeStranger9]

i love the iceland accent. cool bit of the language at 2:04-2:07

[sairamnagarajan]

lovely landing! and funny french pilot accent lol

[bltrrs]

what language waas that.

[rustydevilll]

icelandic.

[atakany]

awesome piloting

[american]

damn i want to fly this plane one day in my pilot carrer =D

[kakanogomno]

ROFL 1:57

[nolifemerc]

lol cargo door and some listing craked during testing at max speed.

[you238]

Not sure if they did or not, but it seems much more useful to test the control systems that let the plane automatically land than one guy landing in one plane. The data from the myriad stress sensors placed around the plane would be nice in any case though.

[alruin4531]

Nice flat turn nearly perfect

Few airline pilots flat turn

[woarboar]

Standard procedures but still pretty nicely done

[ErwinvanderWerve]

funny accents after 50 seconds: but why dide youe choose izeland? hahaha and than the guy in his Cousteau accent: ...

[tisom2]

Nice aircraft, piloting and I love the reporter! ;}

[GlasgowRangers72]

"Why did you choose Keflavik?"

"Because, like everything else in Iceland, the weather is shit."

[ditterel]

Bello idioma el Islandsk..Nydelig språk.

[Abbasi123456789]

I still insist that we are not only opening new possibilities of aviation technology, but also we are creating possibilities that more people can die in one accident. 700+ people can die and thats already too close for comfort to the worst disaster in aviation history death list.

[uni000ver000sal]

That is okay, the world is overpopulated anyway!

It is all about the dollar, isn't it?

[Mthtmty]

It is also creating the possibility of 700+ people getting to where they want to go and the plane will create less pollution. Anyway. A crash it incledibly unlikely especialy with the A380 because there are only 3 of them (I think) in service. None of the A380's in service are carrying anywhere near 700 passengers.

[nolifemerc]

lol hard but i give the pilot 1 think, landed on a stamp, got it strait at the rigth time.

[Abbasi123456789]

wasnt that hard but pilots did a nice job. It was strong crosswind

[tjp353]

Dinimess2k7. The UK has a large aircraft industry and the a380's wings are indeed designed and built here. It's not that hard to belive that azzaroz's uncle played a part in designing it's wings, although he obviously didn't do it all by himself. I've never worked on the a380 myself but I work with people who have. It's really not that special - it's hardly like being an astronaut or fighter pilot! It's just like any other factory job.

[ryanauburn]

aeronautical and aerospace engineering is one of the most specialized fields. there definitely is a factory to assembly cause i live near Boeing and its a lot more serious than that

[tjp353]

ryanauburn. You missed the point. Yes, aerospace engineering is a specialized field, with high standards to maintain and tight quality control. What I meant was, the job itself, working in a factory building planes, soon becomes very 'normal'. I've done it for over ten years and I like my job but, like most other jobs, it is sometimes boring. Like I said before, it's not as exciting as being a fighter pilot or an astronaut.

[pimporro]

Fernando Alonso?

[techdefined]

Yes Airbus Chief Test Engineer.

[rosaire0]

I'll take the plane... and the girl!

[ditch64]

fuck yes

[azzaroz]

My uncle designed the wings for the Airbus A380.

[Dinimess2k7]

Yes im sure he did :l

[mammerlemam]

bigger than a fokker 100

[aleidenf]

Same comment was made in 69 when 747 came into operation. It's amazing how people in the XXI century are still afraid of new technology.

[PopdaRock]

I can't get myself to trust an 'airbus'

The 787 Dreamliner is what I'm lookin forward to. :)

[alastairmsim]

You're willing to get on a plane which is the first to use 50% composite material, the most of any commercial aircraft in history? You do know that if you hit the underside of an A380 with a hammer it will show a dent, but if you hit the underside of a 787 you won't see a dent, but you may be delaminating the composite which will then rupture when put under the massive pressure differential that Boeing has imposed on it to make the cabin pressure higher than any other aircraft in existence.

[Abbasi123456789]

if theres an accident when this plane goes into service, upto 700 people can die. We shouldnt be making bigger planes it risks more lives.

[zargorn]

Now thats an odd way of doing statistics. One out of a thousand A380 crashed calculates to be the same death rate as one out of a thousand 767 or for that matter one out of a thousand cars.

Basic math sometimes helps. And here its even a matter of life and death :-).

Of course: Carrying more passengers risks more lifes. No matter if you do it by using bigger planes or more planes. So are you proposing to deny some passengers passage to safe their lives???

[Stefnir94]

It's probably alright but the dreamliner looks better. I admit the Airbuses are better, but this is a big fucking metal brick and i'm afraid of it.

[alastairmsim]

Metal brick?? The upper side of the fuselage is composite. It's not a metal brick. I advise you to look up the percentages of material used on the A380 and compare them to current aircraft. I think you'll find it too is using a large amount of composites. and if this is a metal brick then the 787 is a flying PVC pipe...

[Stefnir94]

It's probably alright but the dreamliner looks better. I admit the Airbuses are better, but this is a big fucking COMPOSITE brick and i'm afraid of it.

[KillersDesire]

any way you look at it, if the plane crashes, be it a flying metal brick or a flying composite brick, your still gonna die. who cares what its made of. if it hits the ground at 900km p/h your still going to be toasted. nuff said.

[Abbasi123456789]

the A380 is very vulnerable to crosswind because its so large

[LiviuFloreaRo]

It has state-of-the-art avionics which will enable it to fly in all weather conditions.

[erkokyong]

yea. first A380 airbus is now handled to Singapore Airlines. First flight is on 25th Oct 2007

[cjracer1000]

omg omg would u just shut up about that.

every vid of the a380 i see u alaways say that just stop posting the same exact comment

[sexyemeni]

wow that's some insane landing skills.

[frig2]

Perhaps she meant that the tail of the plane is 24 meters tall (though even thats sounds tall to me):)

[cjracer1000]

i hate how they never measure up to the fuselage

[dollytastic]

I lvoe the Icelandic language, it does sound like gobblydygook tho, because it's so different to English. I dont think I could ever learn to speak it. When I landed at Keflavik it was on a 757 and I didn't even notice we had landed it was so gentle.

[chenoir]

Islandic is a strange language. Seems like a mix of Italian, Neerlandish and some slave language. Not an "ugly" language, but it seems hard to pronounce for my france throat ^^.

Anyway, do you know that the reactor of that giant is larger than a caravelle's main body?

[AlbertoC1979]

that aircraft ain't 24 meters tall... news always get things wrong when it's about numbers... you mean 24 meters wide or what did you mean?

[vanessaf18]

Actually, it _is_ 24.10 metres tall, ground to top of tail fin.

[corsakias]

look at the name appears at 1:35

[david181993]

Lol thats not the fernando alonso I know :D

[TwisterAce]

Keflavik... that airport was featured in Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy.  It gets attacked by Soviet cruise missiles.

[suino28]

icelandic crosswind yeah!

[tuintu]

girl is so cute but the language is disgusting

[IcelandAnimeGirl]

Hey! That is offending. I'm Icelandic and you don't see me dissing your language! It maybe sounds weird because you don't understand it... but it's not smart dissing other people religion, or in this case, language.

[tuintu]

i think you haven't read the first part of my sentence :P cute girl(s)

[type2mike]

That brunette reporter girl bent my wookiee if you know what I mean!!

[Playboo62]

lol 560 tons? that are 90 elefants

[Tungst3n]

OMG! What to do with all my travel elephants?

[claventin]

The debate between the Dreamliner VS A380 is pointless. In 5 to 6 years, Airbus will release the A350 counter strike against the dreamliner where Boeing will counter the A380 with ? Nothing ...

If ever the A380 is not a commercial success, it's still a technological jewel, just like the Concorde was. Outstanding achievement of a United Europe !

[volker001]

The most beautyful plane ever built - Boeing's so called Dreamliner is a joke, compared to this! :-)

[drakkarca80]

imo the SR-71 is the most beautiful. The dreamliner already has more orders than the A380. So the execs at the airlines must not see it like a joke. For a joke -Boeing is laughing all the way to the bank.

[burrichello]

Airbus is progressing well with the first customer A380s. The first A380 for Singapore Airlines arrived in Toulouse in mid-July after completion of the cabin installation. It is now submitted to thorough final checks, prior to delivery to the customer in October. The subsequent aircraft, for delivery to Singapore Airlines, Emirates Airlines and Qantas, are also well on track.

Reality against Dreams...Liners...IOL

When is that crappy 787 gonna leave the earth and fly? JJJ

[wotan20]

Fantasticaly sure handed landing at 90 km/h crosswind. If they wouldn't have mentioned the speed, I would've guessed no more than half the crosswind by how the airplane flew. Very impressive.

[andrewiscool1991]

awesome airplane

[mWb003]

if test pilots have nerves of steel, what are their balls made of???? i saw a documentary on the testing of the A380, and when they were testing its max speed at 0.94mach they were so confident, even when there was a chance they could have died. what a great job.

also 850 passengers? ive read reports that it could carry just over 1000 if the entire plane was configured with today's economy class standards.

[wotan20]

Titanium? Just guessing. ☺

[brettv8]

yes that was on discovery when they tested max speed called the flutter test or something, the thing was shaking and the first time it lost a panel I think, still pretty good going

[vitacit]

icelandic is beautiful language ! and this airbus baby as well)))

[timothyngim]

He does have nerves of steel. Thats the bad thing about A380. Delay

[HumGuitar]

I thought that first announcer was going to say "do you want to touch my monkey?"

[Flykart]

At 1:56, it's cool that they compared it. Now we all know how big it is.

[Kristopher209]

does anybody know how much the wind was gusting that day?

[stefanfreyr]

According to the test pilot it was "40 knots, maximum 50 knots". That's 20 - 26 meters per second or close to 90 km per hour.

[PlatinumRomance]

DANG! that 737 was small small compared to the A380

[superbertie]

You didn't look closely enough it was a Cessna 152...

[PlatinumRomance]

No, i'm talkin about towards the end...the blue plane. I didn't even see a cessna.

[lwd8ball]

That last reporter was fucken fine i wouldnt mind flying with her anywhere

[quay0007]

Who the hell wants to fly with 500 to 800 passangers? this bird is going to the scrap heap just like all the other big birds.  remember the McDon Douglas Monster its sittin AZ as a cactus planter.

[uzercruzer]

The concept of this plane "flew over your head" so to speak. It's not gonna have 800 passengers...even though it's capable of it. The cool thing is: it'll have a bar, casino, little hotel rooms...lounge areas etc...ever been on a 10.5 hour flight sitting in a chair? Try doing that at home...lot's of fun, huh? This will get rid of that horrific boredom.

[TrapShooter123]

Nice video... I wonder how that thing would've done in Hong Kong if that airport was still there...

[saulo320]

Icelandic´s a german language.

[marianopicco]

I heard it was closer to old viking... with mixtures of danish which is Germanic.

[westindude]

Airbus..The New Boeing!

[honeyvera]

wow beautiful landing!

[alfathomas30]

whoa! I'm not a pilot and I can say that the landing sequence was scary. Good to know there are pilots with nerves of steel and skills of superman...LOL.

[corchooo]

beautiful

[thrax777]

i lol`ed when the 737 passed infront of it

[Ludman31]

I like the accent of the pilot (il est bien français lui !)

Icelandic have an horrible language :s (sorry but ...)

[marianopicco]

I like icelandic! ^^ listen to sigur ros they make it sound pretty...

[Ludman31]

okay I'll listen

[Metallirocks]

That reporter at the end was HOT!!! I want THAT plane and i want her in the cubicle of it;)

[Dannyd47]

haha i was thinking the same thing! maybe i should go to iceland..

[bruisedpetal]

whoa the size of it next to the 737 or whatever it is puts it in perspective- it's HUGE! It's hard to imagine it ever getting off the ground!

[flyer9k]

that was what i call aviatopn art.

[outsideobserver]

The pilot has nerves of steel AND BIG BAD BALLS.

[luis25s]

Actually, nerves of steel and BALLS OF STEEL TOO!!!!

[airgildaviss]

wow thats mazing kind of landing

[TGSC]

Why didn't Airbus just make freighter versions of the A380 to start with, and then transition to passenger planes? Airlines wouldn't get their planes any sooner than they do now, but at least Airbus would have money rolling in.

[wotan20]

Probably because prestige and marketing purposes <i>TGSC.</i> Can you quote any major passenger plane type which started its carrier as freighter? Its usually the other way around isn't it?

[TGSC]

Maybe, but why is prestige and marketing more important than income and manufacturer confidence?

[TGSC]

Perhaps it is about creating the marketshare and beating Boeing - the 787 is a very different concept, and allowing the 787 to corner the market might deteriorate the fundamentals of the A380 market. The 787 and A380 are not direct competitors, so if the 787 changes the market towards point-to-point-connections rather than bulk hub connections of the A380, the air traffic infrastructure could be hard to change if the A380 is delayed further.

[TGSC]

Perhaps it is about creating the marketshare and beating Boeing - the 787 is a very different concept, and allowing the 787 to corner the market might deteriorate the fundamentals of the A380 market. The 787 and A380 are not direct competitors, so if the 787 changes the market towards point-to-point-connections rather than bulk hub connections of the A380, the air traffic infrastructure could be hard to change if the A380 is delayed further.

[wotan20]

You are right that the A380 and the B787 serve different markets <i>TGSC,</i> -with some overlapping. To return to the original contention in your question, why marketing and prestige is more important than income and manufacturer's confidence? The contradiction is only on the surface. Marketing and prestige <b>is</b> long term profitability for a manufacturer, who is introducing a new product which is intended to be for sale for decades as a passenger carrier. -Cont.

[wotan20]

-Cont. I'm sure, that after a few years of successful operation, they will add the freighter variety to the line-up with a little less fanfare. You do have a point, that logically why not use A380 as a freighter, while the manufacturer revs up for passenger plane, but I don't think the business work that way. for one thing, I'm not sure, that the approval process would be that much different, that it would significantly push the product lunch that much earlier. -Cont.-

[wotan20]

-Cont.- Secondly, I'm not certain that the freighter operators themselves would be happy to get a less than full quality product, when they buy a new plane. Or if they do, how much discount they would demand to operate a testbed? In any case, the whole issue is mute, if Airbus keeps its present revised schedule, since it will deliver its first A380 to Singapore Airlines within 3 months.

[alfa0102]

icelandic is sexy

[starcityassassins]

Yawing that beast into the wind, and then swoosh round he comes to land on the centreline. Very nice. Thanks for the vid.

[xciu]

Amazing pilot.

[pracs92]

very interesting, thanks!

[magonzz]

Thanks for the entire story in english subs poster.

[saxjsax]

um why can't airbus unlike boeing fill their fucking orders?

[andymaque]

thats because unlike a boeing, everyone wants one for christmas so get in the que for some quality!

[live4honor]

Sony PlayStation 3 Anyone? :P

[nickfs2004]

because almost no airline wants luxury, they want fast aircrafts... but with the 737NG boeing couln't fill it's orders and airbus did;)

[lcf34]

Thanks as well stefanfreyr for posting the full video and the translation.

[smoothlennie]

The test pilot is French. Thanks to the poster of the video for giving us the full story, not just the landing videos.

[stefanfreyr]

Thanks for the nice comment. It was a pain in the butt to do the translation ;-)

[vudukungfu]

lemme guess, the pilot is Persian and his English teacher was French.

[wotan20]

Typical Yank. Jealous and ungrateful as Hell.