Sunday, October 30

A380 in Frankfurt, Germany

This is it!!! The first landing of the A380 at an international airport.




From the South, were the large parking area of the (former) Air Base is, thousands were watching it behind fences too high to look over. Somewhat contradicting their own spectator-event and thus somewhat ignoring this massive interest Fraport directed the A380 to land on the northern runway which made it worse. Fortunately I went there pretty late, shortly past 8, so I didn’t waist my time waiting in the dark as a friend I met there did, who was freezing since hours. I don’t regret having gone there for this historical moment, but it certainly left something to be desired. What was really positively surprising is how quiet the A380 is Amazing. Even the A320s landing made more noise, and that are hardly noisy aircraft. The noise-level of the beloved 744 is certainly of an older generation. All those egoistic anti-airport-expansion protestors (motto: creating new jobs is great, but god-damn not near my house! In Germany called the St.Florian-principle) here around FRA should keep their mouths shut, the A380 makes the general noise level certainly lower.


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