5.03.2007

For those whose eyes are glued to the engineering-spectacle-turned-business-gamble that is the Airbus A-380, I present the following:

* one 77 second video of a complete evacuation of this tin foil albatross, care of Gizmodo.

You are watching nearly 600 persons evacuate out of just one side of the airframe. I believe they are doing this in Germany, but you will soon see video of the same test being conducted here. The FAA and its equivalents have their quirky requirements, and there are a lot of fanboys happy to volunteer for the chance to sit in one of these things and then deplane it about as rapidly as practicable, so these tests are conducted at a mfg's expense in each country (or, in the case of the EU, I believe they now do it as a single body. If anyone has more information on this, I'd love to hear it.)

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