First Airbus A380 Scheduled flight into Heathrow 18.3.2008

[johntheleveller]

video still brings back memory, Mel Wildman of firsttofly net group

[Itsnotawig]

What an ugly brute of a plane

[mikeleekok]

Singapooo Airlines makes everybody sooooooo happy.........

[Jesteria78]

oh my God, it's so big!

[JimTLonW6]

Certainly brought the crowds out! I don't have any particular interest in aeroplanes, but I do go to the London Wetland Centre in Barnes, which is right under the flightpath, and some guys do go there to photograph planes too.

[skybrex]

An excellent secne capture, at 0:35 it’s almost as if the A380 is scrapping across the house roof. It seems quite a lot of people have come over to see the A380. Thumbs UP!!!!!!!

[Fuff63]

Looks gigantic!

[ProstoMixtape]

where ist this pleace to see?

[gregvideo07]

see the earleir replies to this question !

[ProstoMixtape]

so you know where it exactly is? station underground?

cheers mate

[gregvideo07]

Yes, click on "view all comments" as I`ve answered this question before !!! It is Hatton Cross station, details in an earlier comment !

[AirbusAirliner]

I would loooooove to live by an airport! haha a BIG international one!!

[burtonboy67]

even plane spotters can have cute asses....

[rocksinger45]

I don't know about you, but I've never been on a 747 and said ... "Gee I wish there were 100 more passenger on this flight".

[Patrick3222]

Was this video taken somewhere in Sipson?

[injection1000]

not in sipson m8 it was at the start of 27L

[clubpenguinbuzz]

That thing is HUGE!

[TJkiwiOWEG]

well you cant very well miss a flying whale now can you?

[burtonboy67]

wow...excellent vid...might have to take a trip to that spot...where abouts is it....i know heatherow......but where...???

[gregvideo07]

Look down the page, I have already replied to that question lol !!!

[nikhilpatel11]

its cool plane but my question is that in case of emergency if that plane crash it would losse more people than standerd 747

[skaazo]

cmon europe...way better than us

[gregvideo07]

And Airbuses float too !!! ..though wonder if the A380 would !

[Gamestar11]

it wouldnt float if the wings were full of fuel

[sorpno1]

was on board that flight

what an amazing aircraft sheer class

[prussell890]

Airbus A380 way better and bigger than the Boeing 747-400!!! Cool Vid!!!

[syafiqpilot]

hey any snow in london on december??coz i'm going london on 20th december!i'm taking A380 there!I'm from singapore tough

[gregvideo07]

Sorry, no snow yet !! You may have to take a flight to Scotland from London to see some snow !

[syafiqpilot]

ooo but there snow falling in london rite??

[gregvideo07]

Sorry, no snow at the moment !

[JohnsonPBX]

It's just beautiful, and weird, such a big pleane and a so low speed approach...

[karolinA332]

A380 is great but Boeing 747-400 is the best!

[TTOIA]

there's a bunch of homos caught on tape near the end of the video

[dimplechops88]

Good old Myrtle Avenue~!!!

FAB video- i wish i had that day off work

[PropellerP]

Good eh.

[JMDDE]

that thing is ridiculous

[arro230]

can you please give the direction to this spot?

[gregvideo07]

Go to Hatton Cross Tube station ( Don`t even think about taking a car lol !), cross the road outside .. the A30, at the lights ( not the road with the pedestrian bridge ..wrong road ) turn right and walk along the pavement for about 5 minutes..you are then there !

[magaboosa]

wow! Where abouts is thisplace. I wanna go!

[mono14]

i have to be honest after seeing the pilot and his crew on the live news, i sussed a rat straight away.

[anthony2154]

Whens the first commercial airbus A380 coming into San Francisco intl?I cant wait anymore! if anybody has a schedule of when put it on my profile here please.

[mono14]

i wouldnt live that close to heathrow, not now the pilots have discovered the belly flop landing. hey has anything come of the enquiry into that crash yet. i think the wet soggy grass saved em myself. took the impact and snapped the undercarriage off so it slid to a halt. just a thought.

[georgecurrysama]

hey you can see my house !!

[SatansMother]

Must be great living in a house that close to the airport.

[boekentasvernietiger]

maybe , untill you can't sleep of the B 747-400 or the B777 , you wil speak different after some days living there .. :)

[hesave]

Why was there a guy wearing a suit at the end? Also, who were those stoned kids at the end?

[gregvideo07]

They made a youtube video of their own, with their singing ! its on here somewhere !

[foxymm]

Thats what i call an aircraft!

[abz132890]

I live 5 mins away lol

[Raunchpot]

bloody hell

[victormanflo]

GOD I WISH I WAS THERE!!!!

[nlr1591]

Imaging living there.

hahaha

[3461167]

hehe, that's what she said..

[3461167]

good god that's huge.

[timmo2k]

HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE PLANE!

[gregvideo07]

Thanks for all your comments ! ..especially from SIA ( was it really from sia ! wow thanks!) and first to fly group. Glad you found the video of interest, and I see many of you have posted great videos yourselves too ! PS . For the opposite extreme in flying, check out my Barra Airport video if you`ve not done so !

[ThAtYoUnGwAzZoCk]

cool video! i would be scared as hell if i were that close to it. im goin to singapore in a weeks time so im hoping to go on this model plane with singapore airlines

[britishairwayspilot1]

i saw one of the the drivers in a car slowing down think wtf was that?

[kelseycosgrove]

but i se my self on your film i rated your vid 4 star because i dident like it i loved it

[siaInternational]

Nice video. Thanks!

[robotusch]

Wahey, I can actually see myself in the beginning of the video :D

So many people were out on Myrtle Avenue, despite the rather dodgy weather (and it did start raining while walking back to The Green Man).

[Maguirerichardson]

I've just had it fly over my head 11.42 am Easter Sunday (a bit late) - out west 27L - and it was stunning - in my opinion it is another plane that you will have to stop and look at - every time. Nice video that captures the moment!

[jonferrari2007]

That was awesome, but i wouldn't fancy living in one of those houses!!

[cyprussunizhot]

were is the best place and the most legal to plane spot at heathrow.

[district008]

I wanna see this. Where the place situated that they were viewing this from? I know Heathrow but what street,viewing area? Also how would I find out when the A380's touching down in the future?

[johnto]

I think it's at the end of a cul-de-sec called Myrtle (or Murtle) Road. It's opposite Hatton Cross Tube Station.

[gregvideo07]

Yes, this video was taken from the field at the end of Myrtle AVENUE (Myrtle road is a completely different place!) which is a great place to watch planes landing on runway 27Left .. which they do for half the day, switching in the afternoons between the left and right runways (27R and 27L ). ( The schedule can be found on the baa Heathrow website. You can easily get to the field by crossing the road (A30) outside Hatton Cross tube station and walking about 5 mins to the right.

[gregvideo07]

ps forgot to say, on occasion they land from the West not the East, Windsor is a good placve to go in that case !

[MadZuup]

I love that plane and i love the voice of the rolls royce motors ^^

[hsl44det1]

I don't know which more stupid, watching birds or watching planes?????/

[Concordelover]

Neither. But listening to your stupid comments isn't exactly fun either so shut up!!!!!!!

[mafiamitchels]

the group was laughing at the end because one of them was treading in dog shit.

[bethnalboi]

I was on the flight. Fantastic very quiet inside and loads of room in economy. Had a fabulous breakfast and rception with a jazz band at Changi. Everybody had their photos took and will be sent a special set of stamps. Then on boarding we found a laptop bag at our seat full of goodies and after take were given a signed 1st flight certificate. The cabin service and food were fab. A great way to end my holiday.

[AirSquirrel1]

....lucky you must have been amazing!!!!!!!

[gregvideo07]

Must have been great, you lucky thing ! I think Singapore airlines will do well out of being the first to fly these !

[MadZuup]

Sombody said that it is a casino in the economy class? Love that plane and i Love Singapore airlines ^^

[gregvideo07]

Thanks for the comments, (well, some of them !!). Glad I struck lucky and was with the crowd waiting on 27L not those waiting on 27R, who can`t have been very pleased at all ! Yes, its an amazingly quiet plane, especially considering its size.

[raymondrayban]

its not as noisy as a747 would i be right

[CHEF123456789]

guys at the end of the film are dicks

[terryjmorgan20]

you guys need to get out & meet some people who are a different sex to you,get a life sad fucks.

[HAHAHADIIIIIIIIIIVE]

Hehehe im famous, i can recognise myself in your vid! i was glad i decided to go there as there were quite a lot of people on the other runway, i did say i had some reason to beleive it would land on the other runway, as it did when it came in on its first flight, but they seemed quute confident that it would land where they were, sorry they missed out i hope they did get to see her land at least

[ahmetsb]

Fabulous...thanks for sharing!

[11nufc11]

lol

[11nufc11]

lol

[trikovich]

yay!

[TIRtilt]

Good video. I missed the damn thing as we were waiting at runway 27R with other mugs. Why did they land it at 27L when everything else was landing at 27R? Bloody waste of day!!!

[tjf4375]

Aaargh that's frustrating! Did they revert to using 27R again after the A380 or was it just the noise abatement changeover?

[gregvideo07]

All the other planes carried on landing on 27R ! though I think they did change later in the day.

[tjf4375]

It must have been an amazing sight, looks like such a slow approach too, wish I could have been there! Do you know if there will be an arrival on Good Friday at all?

[dimplechops88]

brilliant!! i wish i could havebeenthere!!

[billyposter]

Amazing but ugly bird.