While developing the A380, Airbus faced mounting technical and financial challenges that forced multiple redesigns. Engineers ...

A year ago [Ramy RC] set out on a momentous challenge: to build a 1:21 scale Airbus A380-800 RC model with functional engines, landing gear and all other details. Recently he finished the project ...

However, with low-cost carriers operating a more efficient point-to-point model, combined with the COVID-19 downturn in the aviation industry convinced Airbus to end the production of A380s. This ...

Airbus marked 20 years since the first flight of its A380 superjumbo commercial passenger aircraft. Although production of ...

United invested in a revolutionary new aircraft design with one giant wing and an extra-wide cabin. It could replace some of ...

Eight spoilers on each wing ... A380’s mechanical ones. The nacelle sleeve on this Rolls- Royce turbofan is beginning to slide aft for thrust reversal. Phil Cooke—flightlineimages.com With the ...

Airbus and CFM — a joint venture between GE and Safran — plan to test open-fan engines on an Airbus A380 by the end of ... head of the Wing of Tomorrow program. "That folding wing system ...

Airbus will in the coming weeks begin work on a new scaled wing demonstrator under a project ... demonstrator ahead of flight tests aboard an A380 later this decade. Partridge says it is vital ...