The last ever Airbus A380 completed its final test flight over Germany and left a message in the sky for all the fans.
The Airbus A380 superjumbo holds a special place in many aviation fans' hearts -- and when the last of its kind made its final test flight, it returned that love with a message in the sky.
The pilots took a very special route, marking out the outline of a heart, which was picked up by flight-tracking serviceThe craft, registered as MSN 272, has been in Hamburg since March, which is its base for final tests as well as cabin fit-out and painting of livery.Passengers love the A380, but airlines gave up on it. Your window to fly in one is closing now that many are in storage.
The superjumbo's first delivery was to Singapore Airlines in 2007, and since then close to 250 A380s have rolled off the line in Toulouse."It's a painful decision," Airbus CEO Tom Enders said in February 2019."We've invested a lot of effort, a lot of resources and a lot of sweat into this aircraft." However, as aviation has begun its slow recovery, airlines including Singapore Airlines and British Airways havePutting together an A380 is a gargantuan task, with 1,500 companies involved in manufacturing all the individual parts, from rivets to bolts, to seats and engines. Four million individual parts needed to be flown, driven and shipped from 30 different countries.
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