Airbus considered names like UHCA and HDB before settling on A3XX, though A380 was another potential option due to cross-section shape. The A380, despite being generously-sized and comfortable for ...

This was both because the double-deck cross-section allegedly resembles a figure ... See the third and final installment of "Autopsy for the Airbus A380" here.

"One A380, to me, is six components -- three fuselage sections, two wings, and the horizontal tailplane," says Cazeneuve. Ro-ro ships Airbus has a fleet of three specially designed vessels to ...

The Airbus St. Nazaire plant has completed a major 138-foot part of the first Airbus A380 prototype. Tomorrow, the section will be shipped to Pauillac near Bordeaux, where it will be loaded on a ...

There’s nothing quite like seeing an Airbus A380 for the first time. It’s so big – the largest passenger plane ever built – that its wingspan almost runs the length of a soccer field ...

Officials expect thousands of onlookers to line airport fences to see the Airbus A380, an eight-story-high behemoth with a double-decked cabin and a wingspan nearly the length of a football field.

It’s huge, it’s wide, and it’s potentially a lot more sustainable. The Airbus A380, a behemoth of the skies, has completed a trial flight powered on cooking oil. The test airplane completed ...