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World's Biggest Airliner - Building The Airbus A380
Channel: Channel 4
Aired: Saturday 18th June 2005
Duration: 1:42:17
In April the maiden flight of the Airbus A380 made aviation history.
For 35 years the Boeing 747 had reigned supreme as the world's biggest
airliner, but the A380 is 45% bigger. Its development took over 10
years and ’6 billion. With exclusive access to the project since 2003,
World's Biggest Airliner: Building the Airbus A380 tells the compelling
story of the multi-billion-pound gamble to build the world's biggest
airliner.
Constructing a plane on this unprecedented scale poses huge challenges,
particularly when constricted by tight deadlines and especially because
Airbus's main production plants are spread across France, Spain, Germany
and the UK. Each component is so big that new factories have to be built
before work can begin on the plane. The gigantic wings are just one of
the components that must make a huge and difficult journey to Airbus
headquarters in Toulouse, from the factory in north Wales. The enormous
fuselage travels from Hamburg. Each journey is a nightmare, by barge
on unpredictable rivers, by sea, and finally by road, squeezing through
the tiny village of Levignac with inches to spare before reaching the
final assembly line.
The programme provides an incredible insight into the unique challenges
of building an airliner on this unprecedented scale, before its grand
unveiling in front of thousands, and its awe-inspiring maiden voyage in
the hands of Airbus's test pilots.
Virkeleg vert å få med seg!
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World's Biggest Airliner - Building The Airbus A380
Channel: Channel 4
Aired: Saturday 18th June 2005
Duration: 1:42:17
In April the maiden flight of the Airbus A380 made aviation history.
For 35 years the Boeing 747 had reigned supreme as the world's biggest
airliner, but the A380 is 45% bigger. Its development took over 10
years and ’6 billion. With exclusive access to the project since 2003,
World's Biggest Airliner: Building the Airbus A380 tells the compelling
story of the multi-billion-pound gamble to build the world's biggest
airliner.
Constructing a plane on this unprecedented scale poses huge challenges,
particularly when constricted by tight deadlines and especially because
Airbus's main production plants are spread across France, Spain, Germany
and the UK. Each component is so big that new factories have to be built
before work can begin on the plane. The gigantic wings are just one of
the components that must make a huge and difficult journey to Airbus
headquarters in Toulouse, from the factory in north Wales. The enormous
fuselage travels from Hamburg. Each journey is a nightmare, by barge
on unpredictable rivers, by sea, and finally by road, squeezing through
the tiny village of Levignac with inches to spare before reaching the
final assembly line.
The programme provides an incredible insight into the unique challenges
of building an airliner on this unprecedented scale, before its grand
unveiling in front of thousands, and its awe-inspiring maiden voyage in
the hands of Airbus's test pilots.
