No matter how annoying it gets to squish into an economy seat, it’s hard to deny that aeroplanes are awe-inspiring. Watching Qatar Airways’ recent Airbus A380 assembled highlights how intricate the design of these beastly machines really is.
They’re million pound winged buses that soar thousands of feet above the ground for thousands of miles like some kind of freakish wizard trick. It’s nuts that we figured out how to make these things.
Qatar Airways chronicled how its first Airbus A380 went from a bunch of gleaming aeroplane parts to a functional carrier in a webseries on YouTube. Here are the rest of the episodes if you’re looking for your daily dose of aeroplane porn:
Anyone else have a sudden urge to buy a plane ticket?