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http://www.businessweek.com:/print/premium/content/03_45/b3857024.htm?mz
NOVEMBER 10, 2003
INTERNATIONAL COVER STORY
Mega Plane
Airbus is building the biggest airliner ever, and more than 100 A380s have
been ordered by the airlines. A brilliant leap-or great folly?
The trucks will lumber onto the highway shortly before midnight, a ghostly
caravan of seven custom-built flatbeds creeping along a road that has been
closed to other traffic until dawn. Looming against the night sky, the cargo
will look as immense and improbable as pieces of the Eiffel Tower being
hauled through the French countryside: an airplane wing so long it would top
a nine-story building if stood on end. Massive cylinders of aluminum
fuselage. A tail fin as big as the wing of a midsize jet.
These are the pieces of the Airbus A380, the biggest passenger plane ever
made. Starting next April, the nighttime convoys will become a routine sight
on the highway between Bordeaux and Toulouse, in southwestern France.
Sections of the plane