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AVIATION => Operational => Topic started by: Yeebsy on March 18, 2008, 08:33:31 PM

Title: A380 into Heathrow
Post by: Yeebsy on March 18, 2008, 08:33:31 PM

Jeez this thing is big, god help us all if it ever goes down a bit quicker than it's designed to do. Anyway here is a 'fire service' vantage point for its first flight.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvR1Oe6CfoQ

Title: A380 into Heathrow
Post by: graham31 on March 18, 2008, 09:14:09 PM

this mite be a daft question but why was the fire engine spraying water on the plane?

Title: A380 into Heathrow
Post by: Yeebsy on March 18, 2008, 10:17:56 PM

It's just traditional, the fire service salute the first inaugural flight of a new aircraft or the last flight of a retiring pilot.

Title: A380 into Heathrow
Post by: Clevelandfire on March 18, 2008, 10:47:58 PM

dont know what the fuss is all about she's only a titch !

Title: A380 into Heathrow
Post by: Yeebsy on March 18, 2008, 11:28:19 PM

Quote from: Clevelandfire

dont know what the fuss is all about she's only a titch !

Your right, this is the smallest one of this bread.

Title: A380 into Heathrow
Post by: graham31 on March 19, 2008, 09:01:16 PM

now i know.

It's true what they say every days a school day

Title: A380 into Heathrow
Post by: Wiz on March 20, 2008, 06:23:55 PM

Quote from: Yeebsy

It's just traditional, the fire service salute the first inaugural flight of a new aircraft or the last flight of a retiring pilot.

That's a disappointment. I thought the firemen had hit on another moneyspinner to supplement their meagre wages - An aeroplane wash!  In my imagination the film was just showing the initial part of the plane-wash process, and that actually just a bit down the tarmc there would have been dozens of firemen with soapy sponges standing on ladders at different heights! Shame.

Title: A380 into Heathrow
Post by: Yeebsy on March 21, 2008, 12:13:24 AM

Jeez wiz, shut up, the management might read this and implement it. :(

Title: A380 into Heathrow
Post by: messy on March 21, 2008, 04:43:21 PM

It's not the spraying down which would be an issue with me, it's the leathering off afterwards!!!

Title: A380 into Heathrow
Post by: Yeebsy on March 21, 2008, 08:59:14 PM

Don't think they make a chamois big enough. :0

Title: A380 into Heathrow
Post by: Clevelandfire on March 21, 2008, 11:30:28 PM

kill a few nearby cows it will be fine

Just makes sure they haven't got foot and mouth or BSE cos that may make the bird a bit tetchy in flight