[Leica] On the Road to Japan - Airbus 380's

[Philippe]

And "silent" on top of this.
Well all things compared ;-)

Amities
Philippe


Le 19 avr. 2015 à 12:03, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> a écrit :

> I flew in one on one of my recent trips to Asia or the US, but I do not remember which airline (not Emirates, I avoid those oil sheik airlines). Awesome plane, indeed.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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>> On 19 Apr 2015, at 02:22, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:
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>> Morning Luggers,
>> Esther and I have sadly left Miss Eloise and her parents in Hong Kong and have flown to Tokyo to visit our son Russell and his girl friend Kseniya.
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>> At the Hong Kong airport the lounge had good window access to one of the landing runways and so there was an opportunity
>> to exercise the Fuji XT 1 and the 50 - 200 zoom taking pictures of landing planes. At the gate just outside the lounge a British Airway
>> Airbus 380 was parked. That plane is really big!
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>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Japan15/BA-Airbus380-HK.jpg.html>
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>> I caught an A380 landing - this one an Emirates Airbus. Landing speed is 250km/h (150mph), maximum landing weight is 394,000kg (869,000 pounds).
>> I am amazed the wheels can take the strain!!
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>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Japan15/EmAB380.jpg.html>
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>> Emirates will be the major user of the airbus 380 with 140 aircraft ordered and 58 aircraft already delivered. Shows what oil money can buy.
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>> Please look large. C&C always welcome.
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>> Howard (in foggy Tokyo this morning)
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