850 passenger jet...

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  Special K

  'Superjumbo' jet could carry 850 passengers By DIPESH GADHER / The Sunday Times In nine days' time one of the most eagerly anticipated aircraft ever built will be unveiled.

  To mark its arrival British Prime Minister Tony Blair will join Jacques Chirac, the French president, and the leaders of Germany and Spain at a huge aircraft hangar in Toulouse, southwest France. With a lavish sound and light show, a curtain will be pulled back and the four leaders - along with up to 5,000 invited guests - will finally get their first glimpse of the Airbus A380, the world's biggest passenger airliner.

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  Now that must be some really BIG..airplane!

  Special K
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  Realist

  special,

  it looks like a normal airbus but with two levels...kinda like a 747 with stretched hump.
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  Special K

  Airbus bets on building largest commercial plane: The Airbus A380 is set to be unveiled next month. It will be the largest passenger plane in history.

  Its wings stretch nearly the length of a football field, about 50 feet longer than any plane in the air today. Nose to tail, it is longer than two blue whales. Inside the cabin, it has room for at least 550 passengers &mdash and as many as 1,000.

  To put that in perspective, there are 131 towns in South Dakota that could fit their entire populations in one A380 ? the smallest six could do it at the same time.

  It's a true two-story plane: the second deck stetches the length of the plane, instead of just a smaller upper deck like on the 747.

  Airbus envisions that airlines will use the ample space aboard the long-haul plane for cocktail lounges and private suites that serve as in-air bedrooms and double as business meeting areas.
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  GermanXJW

  A "normal" Airbus is impressive by itself. I always think it is standing still in the air.
  
  This one is really unbelievable. The WTS could conduct a Circuit Assembly in it. :-)
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  stillajwexelder

  It will have great advantages in Hub to Hub opeartions - London Heathrow to Chicago , Frankfurt -New York, Amsterdam to Detroit - Honk Kong -Newark