From: "James Rubottom" <jrubotto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 9:05 AM >I haven't seen anyone mention the first flight of the A380 yet. There are > photographs at: > <snip> The initial climb shown on CNN wasn't quite that of a DC9, but it wasn't all that much short of it. Of course, its TOW wasn't very high. They said less than 900,000 pounds. Why should A340 be underpowered with four engines when the A330 flies ok on two? They're the same airplane, aren't they? Gerry http://www.pbase.com/gfoley9999/ http://foley.ultinet.net/~gerry/aerial/aerial.html http://home.columbus.rr.com/gfoley http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/pollock/263/egypt/egypt.html