EURO LEADERS CLAIM LEAD OVER USA!

Drudge Report/AFP News ^ | 1/18/05 | AFP

[Red Badger]

How will it pass the FAA Emergency Evacuation time test?............

[GSlob]

There is a medical term for it - mania grandiosa, I think. To have the biggest toy and then proclaim it as a proof of one's superiority... in USSR it was hydroelectric dams, IIRC.

[Brett66]

The European states -- so easily accused of weakness -- backed this fantastic challenge 35 years ago

How impressive, maybe next century they'll offer macadamian nuts to the passengers.

[Mike Darancette]

Flying Cattle Cars.

[jimbo123]

Titanic or Hindenberg?

[ddantas]

The key part of this is that the European countries own part of Airbus. This distorts the aircraft market and makes us all worse off economically.

[marty60]

Oh wow, just can't wait to make a 10 hour flight with 850 people crammed into a box. Another SST.

[dfwgator]

"Uhhh, do you think they are trying to compensate for something?"

[Red Badger]

Graf Zeppelin or Spee?

[7.62 x 51mm]

... and overrun by muslims.

[Monti Cello]

I sure hope they have the economics and the bugs worked out.

That's an awful lot of prestige to invest in an oversized aircraft. And we are supposed to be the cowboys while the macho Europansies tout 'we've got a bigger fuselage than you'.

Not to mention it's a terrorist's dream come true.

[Centurion2000]

Airbus unveiled the world's biggest passenger jet in a glitzy ceremony in which the leaders of France, Britain, Germany and Spain hailed Europe's victory over the United States as the new king of the commercial skies.

We'll put up one of our planes ... you europeons put up two of yours. I prmoise that our plane will knock both of yours down FIRST.

Idiots.

[eleni121]

They must have solved the weight problem...you can't convince me to get on that bloated thing.

http://composite.about.com/b/a/099565.htm

[af_vet_1981]

Wait until on of these planes(God Forbid) drops out of the sky.

At the close of WWII, Britain led the world in commercial jet aircraft technology while the U.S. was largely relegated to transport aircraft.

A sad series of tragedies occurred, while British aircraft dropping out of the skies without explanation.

It was unforeseen metal fatigue and it led to U.S. dominance of the commercial aircraft market for decades.

[OldFriend]

This is a plane that will make mulitple stops along the way.......just what American's HATE.

[Red Badger]

[dfwgator]

Whatever happened to that other marvel of European aeronautical engineering?

[bubman]

This reminds me of when the Europeans (french) released the Concorde in the sixties only to realize that the times they were a changing for the airline industry. I would'n be surprised if the same happened with the A380. Maybe as a military airlifter, it could see more of a future.

[Piquaboy]

Where will they get enough passengers to fill this thing up? They have problems filling the small ones now. I don't even want to think about one of these things going down.

[dfwgator]

My Hindenburg picture was bigger, ha ha!!! ;)