Posted on 05/02/2005 6:48:03 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
It can be much worse than that. Some airports will have to stop the movements of all other aircraft on all the taxiways and runways when one of these things is moving on the airfield. In many cases parallel runways will have to be shut down. Of course this is so efficient.
[ Sorry, but a plane with 850 Indians on it would stink (literally) to high heaven. ]
Sorry, but a plane with 850 Frenchmen on it would stink (literally) to high heaven.
Stink is not the only thing you have to worry about.
What is going to happen when one those planes goes down with all 850 souls lost? Every time a plane crashes, they will refer to Airbus Flight XXX as the worst civil aviation disaster ever. The public relations effect will be a disastrous nightmare for Airbus.
I spent five years in the Air Foce and I hate to fly. There is no way I will even consider flying on a plane that large.
According to sources in the company, an Indian airline has asked for a plane with an all-economy configuration, which means a carrying capacity of 850.
Airbus Industries may have lost to its American rival Boeing in the race to sell its aircraft to Air-India, but the European company is seriously pursuing private airlines in India, pitching the biggest passenger aircraft ever built, the A380.
It's really too bad...that just means more people are going to die in each Airbust crash. =(
True, dat.
Hey, by the way, who actually won the French & Indian War?
Not to mention the time wasted going through TSA "security" sceenings. Geeesh Louise!!!!!
Now theres a disgusting thought..
Hopefully that won't happen very often. That was one of the arguments used against the 747 when it came out. One of the rebuttals is that with fewer planes flying around, it is easier for air traffic control to prevent midair collisions.
If it does as well as recent aircraft models, that may never happen. The 777 which has been in service since June of 1995 has never had a fatal incident. Neither have the A330, A340, or Next Generation 737s.
Only if it is flown into the Louvre or some other landmark in Paris. The worst civil aviation disaster in in history was Boeing 767-200 crash by AA flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Most of the people who died were in that tower. Many of the occupants of the South Tower started evacutating the building after they saw people in the North tower jump to their deaths, but before the second plane hit.
Exactly what a slaveship owner would count on. But 850 bags of peanuts may be more than anyone could manage.
You can on an ocean liner. Parked at a dock for two days, two hundred Tobys carrying aboard all manner of goods, food and household goods for the trip. I don't think this is what Airbus has in mind, tho.
good point.
FedEx is planning to buy 10 of the monsters, but doesn't have enough traffic on any lanes to support it. Maybe with a lot of growth, they could use a handful, but my guess is that it was done because
1) Fred Smith just loves airplanes and
2) wants to curry favor with the Euros.
The future is in the RJs and the Beyond-Regional-Mini-Jets.
That would be one hell of a fun party jet.
I doubt John Travolta has the dough for it (the rumor is he may buy a Convair 880 and fix it up).
The Saudi family has a nice duded up 747SP and a L1011 that are toys.
Seriously, I see a market for this capacity at a LOW cost. How better to get 850 more scabs to the US at a cheap price? The Indian Gvt will pay for it to get rid of them.
discovery channel did a speacial about that. Micro jets that would be about the price of a modest luxury car, about 45-60 k and be able to use regional executive airports. They would have such simplified and automated controls that they practically fly themselves.
Imagine what that would do to the superjumbos.
These capacities are going to be a reality and the norm as countries spread their poor to better countries.
Back in the day, I used to fly into Dehli on Pan Am One, which would arrive 20 minutes before Pan Am Two, coming around the other way. The two 747s would leave New York 20 minutes apart, One going East and Two going West. They would cross over in Dehli in the middle of the night.
So you had two 747s hit Pahlgam Airport within 20 minutes of each other, every day. To say it was mayhem is an considerable understatement. They never did fix the problem. They just had a slug of passengers arrive every day at midnight, and tried to get them out the door by 6 AM.
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