On April 27, 2025, Airbus marked 20 years since the first flight of its A380 superjumbo commercial passenger aircraft.

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

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

The design of the A380’s wings, with their large area, comparatively gentle sweep (33.5 degrees), and massive flaps, give the Airbus a landing speed that is 20 knots slower than that of a 747.

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 ...

The Airbus A380 was an engineering marvel when it first rolled out in Toulouse, France almost twenty years ago. With its four powerful engines, massive wing, double-deck fuselage, and tail ...

Innovations include open-fan engines, folding wings, and automatic taxiing ... and Safran — plan to test open-fan engines on an Airbus A380 by the end of the decade. They are also planning ...

They’re massive pieces of engineering that seem to defy physics as they hang in the air during takeoff and landing, but double-decker passenger airplanes — the Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 ...

The Airbus A380 flight took off on Wednesday (Apr 23) but was directed to land at the Logan International Airport in Boston around 2:30 am local time on Thursday (Apr 24) due to the incident which ...

The 'blended-wing body' plane built by startup JetZero ... seats across on the world's largest commercial airliner, the Airbus A380 — though no carriers signed on. The Z4 will be shorter than ...