Comments on: Airbus Planning on 900 Passenger Super A380? http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2007/11/airbus_planning_on_900_passeng/ the Gadget Guide | Technology and consumer electronics news and reviews Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:20:02 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Lloyd Jenkins http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2007/11/airbus_planning_on_900_passeng/comment-page-1/#comment-3574 Lloyd Jenkins Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:57:39 +0000 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2007/11/airbus_planning_on_900_passeng.html#comment-3574 <p>Overall, this superjumbo is the perfect way to move a mass of people over a considerable distance for a cheap price per litre of fuel per seat. As a long distance aircraft mainly relying on autopilot, the fly-by-wire design is practicle, and as for cost of aircraft and airport maintenance, these super birds do leave a really clean image with reduced airport taxes as air traffic decreases and passenger numbers increase. I like.</p> <p>And as world population rises, we should consider crashes of larger aircraft as magnitudinal as we do now the 737-800 (we should already, what with 6 billion people as our population). And don't forget that there has not been a major crash since the A 380 has come out (albeit it has been a year or two of service compared to 30 years by the 747, which has an almost perfect flying record in terms of crashes).</p> Overall, this superjumbo is the perfect way to move a mass of people over a considerable distance for a cheap price per litre of fuel per seat. As a long distance aircraft mainly relying on autopilot, the fly-by-wire design is practicle, and as for cost of aircraft and airport maintenance, these super birds do leave a really clean image with reduced airport taxes as air traffic decreases and passenger numbers increase. I like.

And as world population rises, we should consider crashes of larger aircraft as magnitudinal as we do now the 737-800 (we should already, what with 6 billion people as our population). And don’t forget that there has not been a major crash since the A 380 has come out (albeit it has been a year or two of service compared to 30 years by the 747, which has an almost perfect flying record in terms of crashes).

]]> By: Me http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2007/11/airbus_planning_on_900_passeng/comment-page-1/#comment-3573 Me Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:41:19 +0000 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2007/11/airbus_planning_on_900_passeng.html#comment-3573 <p>Let's compare this concept plane with a 747 three-class seating 416 passengers. Say we assume that per chance 1 in 1M flights goes down of each type (obviously unrealistic figure at present since 747 flights out-number A380 flights, but in the future...). It then takes ~2M flights for an equal amount to die in the 747 crashes. Then let's compare to an equal amount of 737 flights with about 100 passengers and find that we'd have ~9M flights to equal the deaths for one crash of this proposed A380.</p> <p>Ok, these figures are rough but do indicate obviously that a single crash of an extended A380 will be devastating. There is no denying it that if these planes do one day become more "domesticated" there will be really bad effects.</p> <p>Now let's introduce an increasingly turbulent world stage with many groups looking for ways to kill anyone associated to a western society (or just for whatever sick reason they think they should kill people) and here is the "perfect" big tin can in the sky to plummet to Earth. </p> <p>Word of warning: doesn't matter how safe men design something, it eventually breaks or gets broken.</p> <p>Like I implied this is a futuristic view of the situation. Ok, enough from me.</p> Let’s compare this concept plane with a 747 three-class seating 416 passengers. Say we assume that per chance 1 in 1M flights goes down of each type (obviously unrealistic figure at present since 747 flights out-number A380 flights, but in the future…). It then takes ~2M flights for an equal amount to die in the 747 crashes. Then let’s compare to an equal amount of 737 flights with about 100 passengers and find that we’d have ~9M flights to equal the deaths for one crash of this proposed A380.

Ok, these figures are rough but do indicate obviously that a single crash of an extended A380 will be devastating. There is no denying it that if these planes do one day become more “domesticated” there will be really bad effects.

Now let’s introduce an increasingly turbulent world stage with many groups looking for ways to kill anyone associated to a western society (or just for whatever sick reason they think they should kill people) and here is the “perfect” big tin can in the sky to plummet to Earth.

Word of warning: doesn’t matter how safe men design something, it eventually breaks or gets broken.

Like I implied this is a futuristic view of the situation. Ok, enough from me.

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