World's biggest airbus A380..started its commercial fly
The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine airliner manufactured by the European corporation Airbus, an EADS subsidiary. The largest passenger airliner in the world, the A380 made its maiden flight on 27 April 2005 from Toulouse, France, and made its first commercial flight on 25 October 2007 from Singapore to Sydney with Singapore Airlines. The aircraft was known as the Airbus A3XX during much of its development phase, but the nickname Superjumbo has since become associated with it.
The four massive 70,000-pound-thrust high-bypass turbofan jet engines driving the A380 will actually be quieter than the engines on many smaller planes. That's because high-bypass engines employ carefully sculpted blades and wider fans (116 inches in the A380's Rolls Royce model) to acceleratE more air past the engine core and out the rear, allowing the engines to operate more slowly and quietly without sacrificing thrust.
The four massive 70,000-pound-thrust high-bypass turbofan jet engines driving the A380 will actually be quieter than the engines on many smaller planes. That's because high-bypass engines employ carefully sculpted blades and wider fans (116 inches in the A380's Rolls Royce model) to acceleratE more air past the engine core and out the rear, allowing the engines to operate more slowly and quietly without sacrificing thrust.
