
Four Rolls Royce Trent 900 engines, each with 72,000 pounds of thrust, get the big bertha off the ground.
According to Airbus, the A380 sets "new environmental benchmarks in air-transport [with] unmatched fuel efficiency of less than three litres per passenger per 100 kilometres."
Credit: Luke Anderson/ZDNet Australia
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shauno
30/10/2007 10:48 PM
Wrong! The 787 dreamliner is not the A380's direct opposition its a totally different aircraft in the same class size as say the A330 340 and 777. Although Airbus does not have any thing near ready to rival the 787's technology in the same class. The only opposition to the A380 is the 747.
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gwe
06/11/2007 04:14 PM
exelent
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