This series has exclusive access to the amazing engineering challenge and multi-billion pound gamble of building the world’s biggest airliner. In 2006 the double-deck Airbus A380 will enter service carrying 555 passengers over 8,000 miles. More people over a longer distance than any other plane. Everything is on a giant scale. Fascinating engineering, real jeopardy and fierce human pressure. The story is told through the people who have to make the world’s biggest airliner fly. In the first quarter of 2005, history will be made as the A380 test plane thunders down the runway for the very first time. Will the British, French, German and Spanish teams pull together to achieve this huge milestone in the history of flight? Episode 1: The first episode of this amazing challenge follows the people behind the race to build the enormous wings, fuselages and other oversize parts for the new machine. Tens of thousands of people are involved. From giant factories in the UK, Germany, France and Spain, each vast component must make an incredible journey over thousands of miles. They must travel by road, river and sea to the Final Assembly Line in Toulouse, where the parts will be assembled. There is no margin for error in this ambitious plan. Schedules are tight and pressure is high as Airbus begins to create the world’s biggest airliner. Episode 2: This is the second episode of the exclusive, inside story of building the world’s biggest airliner, the Airbus A380. The plane has to be ready for its first ever flight in less than twelve months. It’s a huge undertaking, and in Toulouse, France, where the massive fuselage sections and giant wings have just arrived, the pressure faced by the team is beginning to show. As the pieces are joined together like a giant jigsaw, dramatic tests are carried out on the Rolls Royce engines that will power the A380 and the landing gear that must support its enormous weight. Delays creep in, but the day for revealing the plane to the world is now set. The press is waiting. Heads of State, major airlines and ten thousand VIPs are just about to arrive in Toulouse. But will the A380 be ready? Episode 3: The First Flight of the World¹s Biggest Airliner. It’s the most crucial event for the whole project. In Spring 2005 the first test plane of the world¹s biggest airliner will thunder down the runway and into the sky for the very first time. We¹ll be there to see how it performs. On the day of the first flight cameras will be on board, in the control tower and in the Airbus strategic control room as our key characters witness their baby fly for the very first time. It will be a landmark in the history of aviation and a massive news event across the globe. But only this series has the inside track on how it all came about.
This series has exclusive access to the amazing engineering challenge and multi-billion pound gamble of building the world’s biggest airliner. In 2006 the double-deck Airbus A380 will enter service carrying 555 passengers over 8,000 miles. More people over a longer distance than any other plane. Everything is on a giant scale. Fascinating engineering, real jeopardy and fierce human pressure. The story is told through the people who have to make the world’s biggest airliner fly. In the first quarter of 2005, history will be made as the A380 test plane thunders down the runway for the very first time. Will the British, French, German and Spanish teams pull together to achieve this huge milestone in the history of flight? Episode 1: The first episode of this amazing challenge follows the people behind the race to build the enormous wings, fuselages and other oversize parts for the new machine. Tens of thousands of people are involved. From giant factories in the UK, Germany, France and Spain, each vast component must make an incredible journey over thousands of miles. They must travel by road, river and sea to the Final Assembly Line in Toulouse, where the parts will be assembled. There is no margin for error in this ambitious plan. Schedules are tight and pressure is high as Airbus begins to create the world’s biggest airliner. Episode 2: This is the second episode of the exclusive, inside story of building the world’s biggest airliner, the Airbus A380. The plane has to be ready for its first ever flight in less than twelve months. It’s a huge undertaking, and in Toulouse, France, where the massive fuselage sections and giant wings have just arrived, the pressure faced by the team is beginning to show. As the pieces are joined together like a giant jigsaw, dramatic tests are carried out on the Rolls Royce engines that will power the A380 and the landing gear that must support its enormous weight. Delays creep in, but the day for revealing the plane to the world is now set. The press is waiting. Heads of State, major airlines and ten thousand VIPs are just about to arrive in Toulouse. But will the A380 be ready? Episode 3: The First Flight of the World¹s Biggest Airliner. It’s the most crucial event for the whole project. In Spring 2005 the first test plane of the world¹s biggest airliner will thunder down the runway and into the sky for the very first time. We¹ll be there to see how it performs. On the day of the first flight cameras will be on board, in the control tower and in the Airbus strategic control room as our key characters witness their baby fly for the very first time. It will be a landmark in the history of aviation and a massive news event across the globe. But only this series has the inside track on how it all came about.
