You can't appreciate how gigantic the A380 is unless you see it in person. There was one next to us at De Gaulle a few years back. Absolutely massiveness
massive yes, but definately useless, that's why they stopped production.....and flying on them, pfft.....melbourne to Singapore as an example...1hr 15 mins longer on them....., Emirates wont have their order filled any time soon with the things...
I’m a 69yo disabled veteran and and retired pilot. I flew for a living for 35 years. Over all those years I flew a variety of aircraft. The nicest flying jet that I flew was the Lockheed L1149 4 jet engine corporate use aircraft. I was fun. The FAA Examiner who gav3 me the type rating checkride had been President Johnson’s Jetstar pilot. Damn that was a great flying machine.
I think you are talking about the Lockheed L-1329 JetStar. The Lockheed L-1149 was a proposed turboprop powered version of the L-1049 Super Constellation that never went into production. Lockheed made some very nice planes....
Once again a absolute visual masterpiece! I can see the effort put into the models and renders! Some shots even looked real! Very awesome work Nick! Cheers to another 100k!
Once again a visual masterpiece the doco tells us the Lockheed has a distance to travel of 3.2k nm or 5.9k km yet the 747(?) flies 7.73k nm or 5.9k km . . . . . Yes what a visual masterpiece ! ! !🤩😵💫 masterpiece of what running out of gas ! ! ! !
Have to say, Boeing made the right call to develop 777 and later 787 while cancelling 747-500 600 and 700... Which would be quite interesting to see those featured next on Found And Explained. I hope they can recover with recent blunders...
Well Boeing had originally looked at a double deck design based on the 767 for the 777 design, but after modeling evacuation times, aircraft fitment at airport terminals, weight airport aprons were designed to support, etc. They decided that much larger aircraft were self defeating. The short career of the A-380 has proving this.
Wow! Has it been 2 and half years already? I remember the original video and I'm so happy to see how much your channel has grown. Your skills have also improved a lot!
the cgi is absolutely stunning and looks almost like real life! but if it were built, just imagine a billionaire getting a hold of it and making it into a flying mansion!
I’m an aircraft engineer on the A380 - believe me, she is huge to work and very labour intensive. MTOW of 565 tonnes for an aircraft that can travel halfway around the globe always amazes me. Just don’t ask me about wheel changes and lightning strike inspections and repairs 😮
I just flew on a British Airways Airbus A380 from Miami to London Heathrow. It's truly like being in a flying house. It's incredibly wide and majestic. I was just wondering, how long have you been an engineer on the A380?
When we thought Lockheed was already crazy with the CL-1201, they propose this. I wish Lockheed had entered the civilian aircraft more. Their L-1011 was apparently quite lived and they also had a piston engine/later turboprop that saw success. Shame I was born too late to experience Lockheed’s aircraft.
The Lockheed Constellation/Super Constellation, yes--that was one of the most popular airliners of the pre-jet era. It was a beautiful aircraft--I saw the one on display outside the main building at Seattle's Museum of Flight. (I'd forgotten that the National Air and Space Museum also has one--but theirs is the military variant, on display at Udvar-Hazy with state national guard livery.)
That's one thought for what to do with it. But apparently the cargo conversions are difficult to load and unload compared to designed cargo planes. Airbus never developed a cargo version.
@@MyBelch The biggest military transports apparently occasionally carry one. But the weight does seem like a problem for doing this in any cost-effective way. You can see the C-5 heritage in the renderings of this thing--I think that was their starting point.
Yes, noticed it too. Stated is Range 3.200nm (5.900km) for vlsa, and 7.730nm (5.900km) for the 747. Correct values should be 7.730nm (14.300km) for the latter
Always love your videos because of the amazing animations / models you show and the information packed narration! Congratulations on another mile-marker in subscribers!
Bro , the Animation and everything Looked so Real... If this Video was shown at that time then we might have seen this Plane in Reality... Love every video you and your team make... The time and Effort goes is very big but the End Result is Amazin... Keep Bringin More... GOD bless you , your team and your families with lots of love and happiness and with good health and wealth...
Still this Very Large plane could do lots of good for the Airforce, IF such craft could land without destroying rundways. Wonderful video! Loved that little figure of Capt. Pickard inside the cutaway view. Awesome.
This plane is best for carrying both freighter and passenger similar to RoRo. If built it would be a revolutionary and a milestone in avaition world. Looking forward to see this in my generation.
Im glad it was never built, for one thing where's the taikfin lol? how the heck is that going to get off the ground being so heavy and fly and how much fuel would it need to even fly it!? I lovrd Lockheed's L1011 TriStars and as a passenger back in Aug 1974 flew on a pink one called Halcyon Breeze to Spain. When Court airlines went into liquidation during our second hoilday week we got back to the airport and there it was sitting in the heat hazy shimmer a massive awesome pink bird. The Captain ignored orders to stay put, but refused orders saying he wasn't about to leave his passengers stranded or that lovely plane there. He hurried us all across the runway with his crew and once on board and took off back for Luton. We were so happy. The Captain sent his hat around for a whip round and everyone emptied their notes and cash into it, to help pay for the fuel. He was our hero and got three cheers from us passengers and I never knew his name. If anyone does know, and of course he will no longer be with us, please tell me! I'd love to know! I was about 22 yrs old in 1974 Im now 71 and would dearly love to know who he was xx thank you for this video and good luck with your channel hon. Shared, cared 😘😘 xx
I appreciate you looking at my eyeballs through the screen and thanking me. That felt very personal. You're very welcome! I can say I feel as though I can see you edit your videos through my phone keyboard, and thank you for all of your hard work.
Thanks for doing the great animation of my team's design! This was never a serious proposal to build the aircraft, but instead a design study to identify the upper bounds of aircraft size given then current technology and the issue involved generally with very large aircraft. It is crazy to see this video 28 years after I gave the presentation at NASA Langley Research Center in 1996!
Look out for the LTA-ICC.. a 15,000 Passenger ZERO POLLUTION LTA (Lighter-Than-Air) Inter-Continental Cruiser... for a ZERO POLLUTION EARTH... with a Across the World travel for $500-700 per person... each way..
Absolutely beautiful engineering, Lockheed never abandoned the legendary C5 Galaxy design. 360’ view look around , this beast is definitely “ God of the sky “ ❤ ❤❤❤
just to TL;DR the plane, its a Russian / Soviet Experimental Rocket Plane, and i mean literally... Rocket... it used delta-v to fly alone. wiki on it for people who hate typing -> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bereznyak-Isayev_BI-1
@@raidenshotgun5997 Well, at least the Airbus engineers would also be joining in on the project with their own expertise. I still believe such an aircraft can be safely designed and built. There has to be a way.
This highlights a pretty distinct difference between how East and West approach aviation: Generally with the exception of some civilian aircraft that have military variants, there are no cases in the west of military aircraft with civilian variants. Whereas much of the civilian Antonov, Ilyushin, etc line was military derived. The West keeps the two spheres very separate, and while some stuff might flow from civilian to military spheres, it does not flow in the opposite direction. In the east the two spheres are fairly intermingled.
It was. Sadly, it competed for airline sales against the 747 and DC-10. Rolls-Royce suffered a lot of problems making reliable composite turbofan blades for the L-1011's engines, and by the time Lockheed could guarantee delivery of TriStars, airlines had already placed many orders for Lockheed's competitors. It was another great, well-designed aircraft that never sold enough units to pay for what they cost to be developed.
I cannot wait to take an A380 flight again. I took one and 2017 it was the best flight ever been on. And I was on the top floor also. This type of plane is purely magical.
@@stefan_5.7 oh well. It was on its way out anyway. Old , too thirsty, no spare parts. Now Ukrane can ask their USA / EU friends to build them a new one. Maybe Boeing and Airbus can help out. And Lockheed Martin can do rockets for commercial planes. 😆
Best flight in my live was in A380. Its so massive that you dont know if you are flying or you are still on the ground. I am really sad that all companies grounded A380 😢
The A-380 will fly until all of the airframes have to be retired. The transportation model that made the very large civilian transport model economic was hub-and-spoke. To the degree hub-and-spoke became passe, so did the very large transport. I wouldn't call the A-380 an absolute failure but the business model passed it by. I've never seen the A-380 either in the air or on the ground that I know of. I did see the AN-225 right over my head on the glide path into McChord in Lakewood, Washington. I may have seen the Boeing 787 on its first test flight, but I'm not absolutely sure.
@@foxgaming76yt24 not necessarily - big planes still have their needs. Look at Emirates - they want Airbus to make A380's again because they need more to keep up with current demand in airports like LHR and DXB because slots are hard to come by nowadays. Thus makes sense to use bigger aircraft.
@@coopermurray3265 For Emirates, sure. But it's pretty well known that the A380 did not have sufficient demand within the aviation industry to be considered a success. Nevertheless, it'll be interesting if Airbus decides to resume production again, although, I doubt they will
@@foxgaming76yt24 True. I wouldn't be completely surprised if airbus did come to the table to develop something like a 2 engine a380, providing Emirates would commit to a large order
@@coopermurray3265 I wonder how high the engine will have to be, I expect both the bypass ratio to be incredibly high and be large at the same time, so a new engine is most likely needed, and I'm not sure if any of the main/well known engine manufacturers are willing to design a relatively new engine design just to accommodate for something of a novelty aircraft for a single airline.
my goodness is that a cool looking plane, the split rudder and top mounted wings are a combination that looks so good, cant speak for how good it would actually perform however.
Impressive plane. But indeed, the demand for big airplanes was once realistic, but changed over the last 10 years. The A380 is one example of that changed demand. Nice sims. Can someone make this plane for X-plane or FS?
The only airline that is still using the hub and spoke model as its main model is Emirate's and they have said they would like a aircraft to add to the A380 fleet. I really think a refreshed Galaxy would be a great fit and ticks so many boxes, it would hold more PAX and cargo than anything in the market, the cabin can remain windowless replaced with one uninterrupted screen down each side, there would be no gate configuration changes required and cargo loading and unloading would be very quick with the front and back ramps.
Lovely to see someone actually made a video about this plane. A small mistake to be mentioned here. 7:24 Small error there. 7730 nautical miles is not 5900 km, but 14300 km (rounded down from 14316 km).
Getting older, the past is more distant I can say I feel heaps safer in the air nowadays than in the seventies and eighties. The aircraft nowadays like riding an air suspension RV cruising along. The atmosphere, terrain, speed deadliness part hasn't changed, but a Boeing Dreamliner with nice seats (AirNZ) is quite smooth and comfy.
4 GEnx engines in their largest planned size can support a Mach 0.7 freighter of 800 tones MTOW which could be divided 320 tonnes max each for aircraft, fuel and payload - fuel and payload mix varied for task. It would have a main gear of two 6-axle units (24 wheels) and two separate nose wheel gear.
The A380s are being returned to service in VERY high demand to the point Airbus is designing the Airbus A380-Neo (A381 etc)... double decker jumbos with two engines. As the facilities and staff are still in place, it would be a simple task to assemble different components on same scale. The point to point A320 type craft were being pushed over the past decade as it was utilising airport capacity in smaller/regional airport. Not everyone is flexible in their travel plans to be able to take a once a day or once a week flight between remote airports.
A380's are being returned to service because (a) Airlines are still making payments on them and (b) They haven't even reached the half-way point of their useful life. Only 251 airframes in service, Dr T, over half went to Emirates. Nothing to brag about IMO.
@@itjustlookslikethis Most pages that mention the A380, speak as if they have all been consigned to the permanent 'scrap yard'! This is not factual. Most are back in service or in process of being returned to service. With growing demand, more will be required. If building planes in the late 2020s, they would be assembled from parts designed and made with more current technologies.
Bro just imagine Ryanair flying this thing: And ladies and gentlemen, we will be coming in for landing... annndd touchdow- *causes a worldwide magnitude 10 earthquake*
Very interesting. The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy military transport aircraft was originally conceived as a large passenger plane. This design looks like an extension of that original idea. Large cargo aircraft are here to stay. Who knows, right?
I do find it funny at the suggestion Lockheed should of focused on something like the "Airbus" A220 when it was designed and built by Bombardier. So even Airbus wasn't focusing on that aspect. I would also point to how it ended for Bombardier to develop the A220. Not so well either.
Possible basis for a C-5 replacement. C-5 design is now 60 years old and even with mid life extensions its just kicking that can down the road for a little longer.
Well, Lockheed has experience building heavy airlift aircraft such as the C-141 and more notably the C-5 which this is reminiscent of except for the tail and lack a rear cargo door.
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Ayyy, congrats man! Been subbed since you were at around 40k if I'm remembering right, it's been cool to watch things grow from here :D
what is that breathing in the background at 1:05 and 1:20?
Been here since 20-30k
You can't appreciate how gigantic the A380 is unless you see it in person. There was one next to us at De Gaulle a few years back. Absolutely massiveness
massive yes, but definately useless, that's why they stopped production.....and flying on them, pfft.....melbourne to Singapore as an example...1hr 15 mins longer on them....., Emirates wont have their order filled any time soon with the things...
@@whatthe7387 I'm not financially invested 😆
A 380 is a masterpiece which is its owner's pride and the competitors' envy.
The plane is a symbol of luxury, not a means of economy.
@@franciskt4171 nah they didn't spend all that money on them to lose money lmao
I see almost everyday 😅
2:10 i like how Lockheed martin is so used to making supersonic jets that they have to specify that the jet is subsonic.
I wouldn't like to imagine Ryanair flying this.
Oh fuck, the airport collapse
2000 passengers go brrrrrr...
Imagine Aerosucre getting their hands on one of these
Ryanair CEO: 900 passengers? Nah, remove the seats and 5000 passengers will fit inside (very safe, just like in a bus, but in the air)
Rip
I’m a 69yo disabled veteran and and retired pilot. I flew for a living for 35 years. Over all those years I flew a variety of aircraft. The nicest flying jet that I flew was the Lockheed L1149 4 jet engine corporate use aircraft. I was fun. The FAA Examiner who gav3 me the type rating checkride had been President Johnson’s Jetstar pilot. Damn that was a great flying machine.
69? Nice!
Wasted 30 minutes searching Google for a Lockheed L1149... don't think it's exists
@@Fc3s808 that's the jetstar
@Fc3s808 Elvis presley owned one as well and it's on display at Graceland
I think you are talking about the Lockheed L-1329 JetStar. The Lockheed L-1149 was a proposed turboprop powered version of the L-1049 Super Constellation that never went into production. Lockheed made some very nice planes....
Once again a absolute visual masterpiece! I can see the effort put into the models and renders! Some shots even looked real! Very awesome work Nick! Cheers to another 100k!
Thank you sir
omg right! there were moments where i was like "wait!! they actually built them???" lmao
Srilankan
@@Benspringroll they used flight simulator mods 💀
Once again a visual masterpiece the doco tells us the Lockheed has a distance to travel of 3.2k nm or 5.9k km yet the 747(?) flies 7.73k nm or 5.9k km . . . . . Yes what a visual masterpiece ! ! !🤩😵💫 masterpiece of what running out of gas ! ! ! !
7:06 It's so good to finally see a proper range projection and not just the funny circles!
If only the conversion to metric was correct. See 7:18. But I agree with you.
@@erikziak1249 I was reading through the comments to see if I needed to point that out but here you are.
Man. Sometimes I wish we lived in a world where designs weren't limited by practicality
You might get that eventually with a post-scarcity civilization but the concept of mass production would also end.
Anyone who loves aerospace agrees.
Have to say, Boeing made the right call to develop 777 and later 787 while cancelling 747-500 600 and 700... Which would be quite interesting to see those featured next on Found And Explained.
I hope they can recover with recent blunders...
Well Boeing had originally looked at a double deck design based on the 767 for the 777 design, but after modeling evacuation times, aircraft fitment at airport terminals, weight airport aprons were designed to support, etc. They decided that much larger aircraft were self defeating. The short career of the A-380 has proving this.
The Triple 777 and A 350 are plenty big enough.
I disagree.
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Ich hoffe nicht. Diese gigantischen Flieger gehören verboten. Eine Umweltkatastrophe
Wow! Has it been 2 and half years already? I remember the original video and I'm so happy to see how much your channel has grown. Your skills have also improved a lot!
the cgi is absolutely stunning and looks almost like real life! but if it were built, just imagine a billionaire getting a hold of it and making it into a flying mansion!
It should be the next Air Force One! Or just simply, The Flying White House 😂
I’m an aircraft engineer on the A380 - believe me, she is huge to work and very labour intensive. MTOW of 565 tonnes for an aircraft that can travel halfway around the globe always amazes me. Just don’t ask me about wheel changes and lightning strike inspections and repairs 😮
I just flew on a British Airways Airbus A380 from Miami to London Heathrow. It's truly like being in a flying house. It's incredibly wide and majestic. I was just wondering, how long have you been an engineer on the A380?
@@bobby1970 about 5 years chief
@@peanuts2105 That's awesome.
I really like how the cutaway model even showed a few bags falling out of the side of the storage compartment. Nice touch lol.
Great video, as always! The detail of the luggage falling down from the airplane at 5:52 made me laugh!!
When we thought Lockheed was already crazy with the CL-1201, they propose this.
I wish Lockheed had entered the civilian aircraft more. Their L-1011 was apparently quite lived and they also had a piston engine/later turboprop that saw success. Shame I was born too late to experience Lockheed’s aircraft.
The Lockheed Constellation/Super Constellation, yes--that was one of the most popular airliners of the pre-jet era. It was a beautiful aircraft--I saw the one on display outside the main building at Seattle's Museum of Flight.
(I'd forgotten that the National Air and Space Museum also has one--but theirs is the military variant, on display at Udvar-Hazy with state national guard livery.)
This could've been an amazing cargo plane, like the an-225
That's one thought for what to do with it. But apparently the cargo conversions are difficult to load and unload compared to designed cargo planes. Airbus never developed a cargo version.
Was the an-225 that was, bigger than this one please? Xx
Standard shipping containers are far too heavy to ship by air.
@@MyBelch The biggest military transports apparently occasionally carry one. But the weight does seem like a problem for doing this in any cost-effective way.
You can see the C-5 heritage in the renderings of this thing--I think that was their starting point.
Flying the A380 is still the most comfortable plane! I wish something like this was built that could give a bit of room to move around.
I've flown many, many times in 747s and A380s and can report there is no difference as a passenger. None whatsoever.
Thank you. It's great to have seen this channel grow. Keep up the great work. Can't wait to see what you do next.
Good and interesting as always. But I think there is a typo in the range discussion at 7:18, you use 5,900 km twice in conversion from nm ..
Yes, noticed it too.
Stated is Range 3.200nm (5.900km) for vlsa, and 7.730nm (5.900km) for the 747. Correct values should be 7.730nm (14.300km) for the latter
Yup, I saw that too
Saw that too
Lockheed has never had much success in the private sector, which is too bad. I loved flying on the amazing and comfortable L-1011.
What an amazing looking plane. It would have been quite a spectacle watching this thing landing and taking off.
Thanks for the great detail you go in to for these videos! The 3d graphics are always IMPECCABLE!
Always love your videos because of the amazing animations / models you show and the information packed narration! Congratulations on another mile-marker in subscribers!
Bro , the Animation and everything Looked so Real... If this Video was shown at that time then we might have seen this Plane in Reality... Love every video you and your team make... The time and Effort goes is very big but the End Result is Amazin... Keep Bringin More... GOD bless you , your team and your families with lots of love and happiness and with good health and wealth...
Exellent presentation. You guys found some real gems in the 3D graphics - really good. I love the luggage falling out with the blow-up model!
Super impressed with the visuals on this bad boy. Keep it up!
Still this Very Large plane could do lots of good for the Airforce, IF such craft could land without destroying rundways.
Wonderful video! Loved that little figure of Capt. Pickard inside the cutaway view. Awesome.
Nice touch with the Boeing Sonic Cruiser in the background at 5:23 and 12:57
I like how the bags spilled out when you took the roof off.
Its great to see your animations get better and better with each video!
This plane is best for carrying both freighter and passenger similar to RoRo. If built it would be a revolutionary and a milestone in avaition world. Looking forward to see this in my generation.
The ending was so heartfelt. ❤️ I am really happy to be subscribed to this channel! And looking through the screen: you are very welcome!
Thank you for doing more bigger planes. I hope there will be much more!
Oh yeah, me too man, me too! 😁
Im glad it was never built, for one thing where's the taikfin lol? how the heck is that going to get off the ground being so heavy and fly and how much fuel would it need to even fly it!? I lovrd Lockheed's L1011 TriStars and as a passenger back in Aug 1974 flew on a pink one called Halcyon Breeze to Spain. When Court airlines went into liquidation during our second hoilday week we got back to the airport and there it was sitting in the heat hazy shimmer a massive awesome pink bird. The Captain ignored orders to stay put, but refused orders saying he wasn't about to leave his passengers stranded or that lovely plane there. He hurried us all across the runway with his crew and once on board and took off back for Luton. We were so happy. The Captain sent his hat around for a whip round and everyone emptied their notes and cash into it, to help pay for the fuel. He was our hero and got three cheers from us passengers and I never knew his name. If anyone does know, and of course he will no longer be with us, please tell me! I'd love to know! I was about 22 yrs old in 1974 Im now 71 and would dearly love to know who he was xx thank you for this video and good luck with your channel hon. Shared, cared 😘😘 xx
7:22 7730nm are 14300km.
thanks
The visuals are amazing! Mustard certainly has a rival now
That thing looks cool AF!
I appreciate you looking at my eyeballs through the screen and thanking me. That felt very personal. You're very welcome! I can say I feel as though I can see you edit your videos through my phone keyboard, and thank you for all of your hard work.
Is it just me, or is there a Concorde shown at 10:05?
Thanks for doing the great animation of my team's design! This was never a serious proposal to build the aircraft, but instead a design study to identify the upper bounds of aircraft size given then current technology and the issue involved generally with very large aircraft. It is crazy to see this video 28 years after I gave the presentation at NASA Langley Research Center in 1996!
Would love to see you do a video on the Lockheed Martin Box Wing aircraft designs that we also developed.
This plane is my favorite of the never built airplanes despite its flaws. I am glad to see its video get a remake.
Look out for the LTA-ICC.. a 15,000 Passenger ZERO POLLUTION LTA (Lighter-Than-Air) Inter-Continental Cruiser... for a ZERO POLLUTION EARTH... with a Across the World travel for $500-700 per person... each way..
@@AjayAjay-gz3oz Ask me, it's a sneaky way to combat overpopulation. Would I fly on it? At my age, it all depends!😄😄😄
shoulder deckers for passenger planes is a no go
Small refinement, the Boeing 747 range of 7730 nautical miles translates to 14316km, not 5900km. :)
Awesome content as always F&E
Keep up this beautiful work 👍
Absolutely beautiful engineering, Lockheed never abandoned the legendary C5 Galaxy design. 360’ view look around , this beast is definitely “ God of the sky “ ❤ ❤❤❤
The tailfin looked so cursed XD
wanted to quickly leave a suggestion for a plane to look at, The BI-1 if it wasn't already looked at
just to TL;DR the plane, its a Russian / Soviet Experimental Rocket Plane, and i mean literally... Rocket... it used delta-v to fly alone. wiki on it for people who hate typing -> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bereznyak-Isayev_BI-1
3:01 *lockheed actually having a website*
You forgot to mention:
With just a single design flaw, the fuselage could have disintegrated mid-flight under its own weight.
I'm sure the engineers would eventually come up with a design that actually works and is safe.
@@bobby1970 I'm sure those same engineers thought the same for the Boeing 787 Max
@@raidenshotgun5997 Well, at least the Airbus engineers would also be joining in on the project with their own expertise. I still believe such an aircraft can be safely designed and built. There has to be a way.
@@raidenshotgun5997 What the hell is a 787 Max? Are you mixing a 737 Max and a 787?
Are you talking about my wife again? Hee-haw!
This highlights a pretty distinct difference between how East and West approach aviation: Generally with the exception of some civilian aircraft that have military variants, there are no cases in the west of military aircraft with civilian variants. Whereas much of the civilian Antonov, Ilyushin, etc line was military derived. The West keeps the two spheres very separate, and while some stuff might flow from civilian to military spheres, it does not flow in the opposite direction. In the east the two spheres are fairly intermingled.
I never knew 3200 and 7730 nm both equalled to 5900 km, but it's nice to have less details to remember
I laughed when the luggage fell out of cargo compartment during the cutaway removal!
Neat little details.
You know it's heavy when it has 2 landing gears.
Thumbs up for the cutaway sequence. I had to giggle at the cargo falling out and Captain Picard standing there... 😁😇✌️
It's not until you drive a 380 do you realise how smooth they are, a credit to Mitsubishi.
Drive!?!?!?
this seems more plausible than that one sky hotel thing
I wonder if someone has made a model of this for Flight simulator yet? Love to give it a whirl in the sky!
Fun Fact: the actual plane with the reg VH-VXP is a Qantas 737
Would be nice to see Lockheed return to commercial aviation. The tristar was such a gorgeous aircraft.
It was. Sadly, it competed for airline sales against the 747 and DC-10. Rolls-Royce suffered a lot of problems making reliable composite turbofan blades for the L-1011's engines, and by the time Lockheed could guarantee delivery of TriStars, airlines had already placed many orders for Lockheed's competitors. It was another great, well-designed aircraft that never sold enough units to pay for what they cost to be developed.
I cannot wait to take an A380 flight again. I took one and 2017 it was the best flight ever been on. And I was on the top floor also. This type of plane is purely magical.
I wonder what it's size would would've been compared to the Antonov AN-225
Good question. Did the Antonov stop flying after being bombed ?
@@borisyurinov4822 yes it was practically demolished and they don't know if it's worth it to rebuild
@@stefan_5.7 oh well. It was on its way out anyway. Old , too thirsty, no spare parts. Now Ukrane can ask their USA / EU friends to build them a new one. Maybe Boeing and Airbus can help out. And Lockheed Martin can do rockets for commercial planes. 😆
Imagine they just named it Lockheed Very Large Plane
Very nice video. Small error: 7:17 You copy pasted the range in km over to the 747.
Yep. Just noticed that too!
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Best flight in my live was in A380. Its so massive that you dont know if you are flying or you are still on the ground. I am really sad that all companies grounded A380 😢
ANA still flies the a380 called the flying honu (turtle)
not every company
Emirates , BA Lufthansa have been flying them since last year
The A-380 will fly until all of the airframes have to be retired. The transportation model that made the very large civilian transport model economic was hub-and-spoke. To the degree hub-and-spoke became passe, so did the very large transport. I wouldn't call the A-380 an absolute failure but the business model passed it by.
I've never seen the A-380 either in the air or on the ground that I know of. I did see the AN-225 right over my head on the glide path into McChord in Lakewood, Washington. I may have seen the Boeing 787 on its first test flight, but I'm not absolutely sure.
@Phillip Banes
A380 was only made for Emirates.
Others just tried it as an experiment
rip to the people who lost their luggage when the top was taken off at 5:50
I think we have reach in an era where big plane are no longer in use
That's pretty obvious lmao
@@foxgaming76yt24 not necessarily - big planes still have their needs. Look at Emirates - they want Airbus to make A380's again because they need more to keep up with current demand in airports like LHR and DXB because slots are hard to come by nowadays. Thus makes sense to use bigger aircraft.
@@coopermurray3265 For Emirates, sure. But it's pretty well known that the A380 did not have sufficient demand within the aviation industry to be considered a success. Nevertheless, it'll be interesting if Airbus decides to resume production again, although, I doubt they will
@@foxgaming76yt24 True. I wouldn't be completely surprised if airbus did come to the table to develop something like a 2 engine a380, providing Emirates would commit to a large order
@@coopermurray3265 I wonder how high the engine will have to be, I expect both the bypass ratio to be incredibly high and be large at the same time, so a new engine is most likely needed, and I'm not sure if any of the main/well known engine manufacturers are willing to design a relatively new engine design just to accommodate for something of a novelty aircraft for a single airline.
5:50 Love how they modeled luggage falling out for no reason at all xD when they ripped the cap back on that bad boy.
Thanks so much haha I thought it would be funny
"It is unsinkable. God Himself could not sink this vessel." - Cal from Titanic 🙄
my goodness is that a cool looking plane, the split rudder and top mounted wings are a combination that looks so good, cant speak for how good it would actually perform however.
They should make the giant jet. It’s beautiful. 🎉
At 5:50 luggage falling out as the model is dissected. Brilliant.
Impressive plane. But indeed, the demand for big airplanes was once realistic, but changed over the last 10 years. The A380 is one example of that changed demand. Nice sims. Can someone make this plane for X-plane or FS?
Thank you for making these quite informative videos!
Jean Luc Picard @ 6:07. Love it!😉
Captain Picard inside the scaled model plane! Nice detail!
The only airline that is still using the hub and spoke model as its main model is Emirate's and they have said they would like a aircraft to add to the A380 fleet. I really think a refreshed Galaxy would be a great fit and ticks so many boxes, it would hold more PAX and cargo than anything in the market, the cabin can remain windowless replaced with one uninterrupted screen down each side, there would be no gate configuration changes required and cargo loading and unloading would be very quick with the front and back ramps.
I need to build that thing in Besiege one day. I just know it's gonna be a pain in the *** to do so
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Great bro
Congrats on 400K!
Lovely to see someone actually made a video about this plane. A small mistake to be mentioned here.
7:24
Small error there. 7730 nautical miles is not 5900 km, but 14300 km (rounded down from 14316 km).
7:17 it says that 7,730 nm is 5,900 km - same as 3,200 nm before.
Yep.
chuffed for you, been watching for well over a year now love your stuff
Getting older, the past is more distant I can say I feel heaps safer in the air nowadays than in the seventies and eighties. The aircraft nowadays like riding an air suspension RV cruising along. The atmosphere, terrain, speed deadliness part hasn't changed, but a Boeing Dreamliner with nice seats (AirNZ) is quite smooth and comfy.
My 1st time here. All the tech described in detail. Thanks for the upload.
Something tells me that spirit airlines would be able to fit 1,300 seats
5:24 Nice touch of the Boeing SST on the left there 👍🏻
4 GEnx engines in their largest planned size can support a Mach 0.7 freighter of 800 tones MTOW which could be divided 320 tonnes max each for aircraft, fuel and payload - fuel and payload mix varied for task. It would have a main gear of two 6-axle units (24 wheels) and two separate nose wheel gear.
The A380s are being returned to service in VERY high demand to the point Airbus is designing the Airbus A380-Neo (A381 etc)... double decker jumbos with two engines. As the facilities and staff are still in place, it would be a simple task to assemble different components on same scale.
The point to point A320 type craft were being pushed over the past decade as it was utilising airport capacity in smaller/regional airport. Not everyone is flexible in their travel plans to be able to take a once a day or once a week flight between remote airports.
A380's are being returned to service because (a) Airlines are still making payments on them and (b) They haven't even reached the half-way point of their useful life. Only 251 airframes in service, Dr T, over half went to Emirates. Nothing to brag about IMO.
@@itjustlookslikethis Most pages that mention the A380, speak as if they have all been consigned to the permanent 'scrap yard'! This is not factual. Most are back in service or in process of being returned to service. With growing demand, more will be required. If building planes in the late 2020s, they would be assembled from parts designed and made with more current technologies.
Bro just imagine Ryanair flying this thing:
And ladies and gentlemen, we will be coming in for landing... annndd touchdow- *causes a worldwide magnitude 10 earthquake*
Very interesting. The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy military transport aircraft was originally conceived as a large passenger plane.
This design looks like an extension of that original idea. Large cargo aircraft are here to stay. Who knows, right?
I love your videos thank you for putting so much effort into them.
This Chanel has come a long way since i last checked in a year ago
I do find it funny at the suggestion Lockheed should of focused on something like the "Airbus" A220 when it was designed and built by Bombardier. So even Airbus wasn't focusing on that aspect. I would also point to how it ended for Bombardier to develop the A220. Not so well either.
2:52 this images pops up in my head when I'm thinking about the C5 replacement.
Love it when the acronym includes adverbs like "Very" in them
Congratulations on reaching 400K, Nick!
Possible basis for a C-5 replacement. C-5 design is now 60 years old and even with mid life extensions its just kicking that can down the road for a little longer.
Well, Lockheed has experience building heavy airlift aircraft such as the C-141 and more notably the C-5 which this is reminiscent of except for the tail and lack a rear cargo door.
Copy+Paste Error at 7:20 - the metric value of the range is the same for VLSA and B747
Aww no, thank-you señor