What is the gas mileage of the A380?
What is the gas mileage of the A380? Airbus states a fuel rate consumption of their A380 at less than 3 L/100 km per passenger (78 passenger-miles per US gallon).
What is the takeoff speed of the A380?
An Airbus A380 has a take-off speed of approximately 270 \ km/h.
How far can a A380 fly on a full tank?
The A380 features an 8,200 nautical-mile range (15,200 km), enabling it to service some of the longest routes in commercial aviation.
What is the shortest runway an A380 can take off?
When all is said and done, the Airbus A380 needs 3,000 m (9,800 ft) of runway to take off fully-loaded, while the Boeing 747-8 requires 3,100 m (10,200 ft).
How much fuel does a 747 burn on a 10 hour flight?
A plane like a Boeing 747 uses approximately 1 gallon (about 4 liters) of fuel every second. Over the course of a 10-hour flight, it might burn 36,000 gallons (150,000 liters). The 747 burns approximately 5 gallons of fuel per mile (12 liters of fuel per kilometer).
Why is the A380 being retired?
That was one of the reasons Air France, the first European airline to fly the jet, decided to ditch A380 on August 5. The estimated cost of upgrading economy and business classes, at over $45 million (£37m), was just too much compared to investing into newer aircraft instead.
What is the slowest speed an A380 can fly?
An A380 crosses the landing threshold at a docile 140 knots and touches down, depending on its landing weight, at a speed as slow as 130 knots, about the same touchdown speed of some corporate jets that weigh 1/50th as much as the world's biggest airliner.
Why is A380 not fuel efficient?
For an aircraft the size of an A380, to be as efficient as a smaller aircraft, it requires a much larger wingspan to avoid the induced drag penalty associated with smaller aspect ratio wings. The gatebox limit at airports prevents this increased wingspan resulting in much lower efficiency specifically for the A380.