A380 lands with exceptional grace, as smooth as butter
- An Airbus A380 was filmed landing seamlessly at an airport in Germany
- The smooth landing makes the plane look weightless
- The Airbus in question belongs to Lufthansa, which operates four in total
Published on Aug 07, 2024 at 3:20 PM (UTC+4)
by Alessandro Renesis
Last updated on Aug 07, 2024 at 5:07 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Tom Wood
An Airbus A380 was filmed while landing at Düsseldorf Airport with exceptional grace.
The landing is so smooth and seamless it makes it look like the airplane is almost weightless.
Not bad for an airliner that weighs 560 tons.
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The landing maneuver was captured on camera by a YouTube channel called Cargospotting.
Upon landing, the A380 produced no smoke and almost no sound.
The Airbus A380 is surprisingly agile
The Airbus A380 is 73 meters long and 24 meters tall, but it is surprisingly agile for such a large plane.
A while back, another plane spotter filmed the A380 taking off vertically, like a rocket, like it weighs less than a light aircraft.
It’s quite fast, too.
The Rolls-Royce Trent engines it uses give it a top speed of 1,185km/h – or Mach 0.95.
It’s a very similar engine to the one the A350-900 uses, but bigger and more powerful.
Airlines that operate Airbus A380s
At the time of writing, British Airways, Qantas, Singapore and Qatar Airways all operate between 10 and 12 Airbus A380s.
Then you’ve got other airlines that operate only a few, such as Etihad and Lufthansa, which have four each, or Korean Air, which operates nine.
But no one gets even close to what Emirates does, as the United Arab Emirates flag carrier operates a whopping 123 Airbus A380s.
Interestingly, Emirates reportedly plans to retire its entire fleet of Airbus A380s by 2035.
When they made the announcement in 2021, the idea was to replace the A380s with Boeing 787s.
Then again, it’s been a few years now, and there have been a few Boeing-related issues, so we don’t know whether that prediction is still considered accurate by Emirates.
