Mer info om A380 First Flight

[LN-SEK]

Fra en diskusjon på A-net....

Interesting News About The A380 First Flight (http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/1981239/)

Besides the pilot and co-pilot there will be 4 engineers on board. All will be wearing helmets and parachutes. One of the lower cargo doors will be armed with explosives so that they can eject it. This opening can be used to jump out of the plane if they encounter a live threatening problem.

The A380 MSN001 with registration F-WWOW will be caring 20 tones of test equipment. They can meassure 15000 different parameters. These will be send online to the ground for instant and later analysis. The 4 engineers will also monitor data and try to smell, hear or see any abnormalities. That is why they will each be placed at different locations within the plane. So they will work as human measurement equipment.

Short before the take of the entire Toulouse Airport will be closed. Only a Corvette private Jet owned by Airbus will be allowed to start. This Jet will check if the A380 is loosing fluids or if something breaks of. The Airbus photographers will also be onboard in order to capture the first in flight pictures of the A380. They will start in northerly direction in order to avoid the city of Toulouse. They will fist fly the aircraft with the gears lowered for one hour around the airport in companion of the Corvette so that they can return quickly if they encounter any problems.

If everything is OK they will say goodbye to the Jet and climb to higher altitudes and fly to a French Military restricted airspace around Brest.

The first flight will be flown by "direct law". This means that the pilots will fly the A380 directly with no computer corrections or flight envelope protection. Only acoustic signals will warn of stall or max speed.

[Bizflyer]

Er det noen som vet når giganten skal i lufta for første gang?

[LN-RKF]

Noen som vet om det har vært tilsvarende sikkerhetsforanstaltninger i forbindelse med andre testflyvinger?

F.eks når det gjelder første flight med 747.. eller 777.. eller A340?

[LN-SEK]

På Concorde prototypen(e) så hadde de utskytningsseter om jeg ikke husker feil.

På 747 så tror jeg ikke de hadde mulighet til å hoppe ut. Amerikanerne er vel litt mer cowboys og tar mer sjanser ?

[Falcon]

Originally posted by LN-SEK
På Concorde prototypen(e) så hadde de utskytningsseter om jeg ikke husker feil.
(...)


Den maskinen som står på Duxford har i alle fall et slags "rømningsrør" som flygere og teknikere kunne baile gjennom selv ved overlydshastigheter.

[DY]

Originally posted by Bizflyer
Er det noen som vet når giganten skal i lufta for første gang?

Som det skrives i ett innlegg i linken som svar på samme spørsmål:
Quoting 22right (reply 1):
Any idea as to the expected date(s) of the maiden flight?


Probably someday in April. Airbus wont give any dates. They say that weather and airplane have to be in perfect conditions.

[LN-KGL]

Og nå ser det ut til at datoen for første flight er 9. april

Whopper without the lot ready for the skies
By Alexandra Smith, Transport Reporter
March 15, 2005

At last, the world's most anticipated aircraft since the Boeing 747 jumbo jet is ready to fly.

A specialist crew will fly the 555-seat behemoth, the A380 Airbus, in every imaginable condition, including sub-zero temperatures, snow and torrential rain.

Code-named MSN101, the first A380 to take to the skies will fly for at least 600 hours over the next year, with different weights on board, taking off and landing at various airports and undergoing rigorous cabin tests.

The French-based company is expecting thousands of passionate aircraft enthusiasts to surround its Toulouse base to watch the jet take off. Although Airbus is remaining tight-lipped, the first test flight is expected to be on April 9.

An Airbus spokesman, David Velupillai, said the company had flight tested 12 different aircraft in the past 15 years, but the double-decker A380 marked a new era in commercial aviation.

"This will be the first time we have had any information on the aircraft, and this is something we have been preparing for for more than five years," he said.

"There is a big mood of excitement in Toulouse, and I think there will be literally thousands of people parked in their cars around the perimeters to watch it take off on its first test flight."

Mr Velupillai said the extensive test flights would be a gradual program. Initially the aircraft will be essentially a shell with no interior fittings. Further tests will build up to a fully functional aircraft, with all the usual features.

"There will eventually be pretty much a representative airline cabin because being such a closely controlled environment we will need to test things like the airconditioning," he said.

Singapore Airlines will be the first to take delivery of the A380 next year, and will use it on the Sydney-to-London route.

Qantas and Emirates will also be flying the A380 next year.

Meanwhile, Boeing's latest assault on the aviation industry, the 777-200 long-range aircraft, took off for the first time last week as the company began its program of test flights for the plane. The 300-seater will be able to fly non-stop from London to Sydney, with Pakistan International Airlines the first airline to buy the jet.

Kilde: http://www.smh.com.au/