The aircraft offers impressive long-haul capabilities.

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The aviation graveyard is littered with superlative aircraft that didn’t stay in the air for long. There’s Howard Hughes’ “Spruce Goose,” then the largest plane ever built and designed as a military ...

Looking at why there wasn't a taste for the Superjumbo in the United States.

Comparing the giants of the sky.

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 and ...

In simple terms, the Airbus A380 typically achieves better fuel efficiency per seat mile than most variants of the Boeing 747 ...

Singapore Airlines got artist Luca Iaconi-Stewart to build a paper model airplane of one of their Airbus A380s and it’s so impressively detailed that all the tiny paper seats on the model airplane can ...

Aboard Lufthansa Flight 8942, March 21—It took a mere 16 seconds for the largest airplane in the world to lift off runway 4L at JFK International Airport. The short takeoff, which we could watch on ...

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Airbus on Tuesday announced it's retiring the A380. Here are the reasons why. The aviation graveyard is littered with superlative aircraft that didn’t stay in the air for long. There’s Howard Hughes’ ...