Hi everybody! Last tuesday, the A380 serial number 2 (F-WXXL) came to the airbus site in Hamburg to get a new painting and the interior. They will also do the evacuation test and some others here. This is the first A380 that came to Hamburg for a full-stop after a short fly-by visit some weeks ago. Once they start production and delivery of the A380, there will be a couple of landings a week here in Hamburg, before they get delivered to the airlines.
It is a very nice place to spot the aircrafts there. The airport is located close to the river Elbe and for about half of the runway a dike protecting against flooding from high water in the Elbe runs parallel to the runway giving you a 7m (20ft) elevation to the runway surface. You can stand so close, one can almost touch the wing-tips passing in front of you. An aerial foto of EDHI is here http://www.eddh.de/info/landeinfo-ergebnisb.php?ueicao=EDHI but it is a few years old. In the meantime, the bay located in the center of the picture was filled and there are hangars for the A380 production now and the runway has been extended to the lower right corner of the picture, almost touching the water. I took some fotos of the A380 landing on tuesday and put them here http://www.t3r.de/fg/a380/ I also put 2 movies there for those with a fast internet-link, they are 37MB and 60MB. Hope you like this little story and the pics. Cheers, Torsten _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
