Hooning an A380

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 09/03/2013 at 09:04 • Filed to: Planelopnik

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Pretty amazing what you can do in an A380 with no cargo/passengers and minimal fuel. I can only imagine how the flight computers must have been yammering in the cockpit.

Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole > ttyymmnn 09/03/2013 at 09:27

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Tex Johnson just said, "meh".

ttyymmnn > Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole 09/03/2013 at 09:36

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I was thinking of this very flight as I watched the video. I wondered if it would be possible to do the same in the A380 and, if so, just how much altitude you would need to pull it off.

"I was selling airplanes." Brilliant.

Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole > ttyymmnn 09/03/2013 at 09:39

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1G, so it should. At least according to Tex it would. I also wouldn't try it at less than 20,000 feet AGL.

Chteelers > ttyymmnn 09/03/2013 at 09:53

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3 ailerons per wing? or do I see more than that even?

Chteelers > Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole 09/03/2013 at 10:01

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"Yeah, just don't do that anymore."

They don't make em like they used to.

Averyrm - GTI YUP > Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole 09/03/2013 at 10:36

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The Airbus flight controls, under normal law, will only allow a 67 deg bank. If you want to properly hoon a civilian aircraft, you don't want fly-by-wire.

Thunder > ttyymmnn 09/04/2013 at 16:28

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How can you fly seat of the pants when the seat of your pants is so far from the center of gravity?

Really, though - that looks like they were playing with a massive airliner as though it were a Cub in the traffic pattern.

cbell04 > ttyymmnn 09/04/2013 at 23:13

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If they ended that with a massive stall/crash it would have summed up my entire simulator game playing time.