Extra- Ordinary A380

The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, four-engined airliner manufactured by EADS (Airbus S.A.S.). It is the largest passenger airliner in the world. It first flew on 27 April 2005 from Toulouse, France. After lengthy delays, commercial flights are scheduled to begin in late 2007. During much of its development phase, the aircraft was known as the Airbus A3XX. The nickname Superjumbo has become associated with the A380.

Oh well enough of the introduction of A380 (thanks www.wikipedia.org). All of you might be aware of the fact that Singapore Airlines will receive the first A380, and will be first to fly it commercially. All the other airlines will receive A380 only in late 2008.

On 13-08-07 some students of Temasek Polytechnic and some other volunteers were taken to a tour around Terminal 3 of Changi Airport. And then had the rare chance of boarding into Airbus A380, and got the T3 is so cool. It has many special features. One of them is the butterfly roofs. The roofs are arranged in a special manner which will allow natural light to come inside the terminal. The air condition system is set from the ground, as the roof is so high. And the best of all is the vertical garden which is 5 storeys high and can be seen from both arrival and departure halls.

After looking around Terminal 3, all the participants were taken to Terminal to Board into A380, which was parked there. Separate boarding passes were issued to all participants. All were given hand carry luggage to take onboard A380 to act as a real passenger. And food was provided to all the passengers and was encouraged by the in-flight supervisor to throw the remaining all over the aircraft. Basically these tests were conducted to measure the time needed to board all the passengers into A380, the time to disembark all the passengers, and the time to clean the whole aircraft.

If you want my personal comment on A380, as a passenger it just looks like any other aircraft. Nothing special about it. It just looks huge from the outside, and the cockpit might have some additional features, and the flight might have a longer flying time. But as an economy class passenger, there is nothing special in it comparing to any other modern day commercial aircraft.

I am Tagged

I have been tagged by Parthi in his blog...lets honour the tag...I am inclined to acquiesce the request!! I am suppose to write 7 random things about me. So here goes...

1- My hair is curly, messy and it looks like fro. But it’s my natural real hair. I can’t help it...it’s not my fault... Some say, “It’s too messy, do something about it”. But when they ask like that I feel like “you are dark, do something about it”. I mean I was born with this, how can I change this???

2- I suck big time in Programming!!! I know my programming skills are not the best, after falling asleep half of my Microcontroller Technology lab. But then I unknowingly fell into the trap again for my major project, as I was put into the software group of the Boeing 747 aircraft project. This serious, as my grades are gonna get seriously affected...Let’s see how it goes...Never ever plan the future, just live it!!!

3- Finding House!!!Again!!! Finding house in Singapore has been the most important and most consistent quest that I have done so far in Singapore. In my 2 ½ year history in Singapore I have lived in 6 houses, and now looking for 7th. Interesting Hey!!??

4- Top Secret...My life nowadays have become top secret, and I am not allowed to speak about it...I am doing a Boeing 747 simulator for my Major Project, and my supervisor has restricted us not to speak in detail about it to anyone...so is project cyber...my part time job in airport, also is the same, as I am not allowed to speak much in detail about the proceedings to outsiders. Sometimes I feel like an undercover agent!!!

5- Setting new trend has always been me. And the latest addition to this is my necklace. It is just a plain black chain with a microchip attached to it as pendant. All those who are studying electronics can easily find one in their college’s component store. And a resistor as an ear stud will give a complete Eletro-cool look. Tech savvy style!!!, that’s how I call my trend. Feel free to follow me!!

6- There are times when you get addicted to some website and keep on checking it very regularly. My latest addiction is facebook. Due to some unavoidable things being scribbled on my wall, I had to go and keep on firing back. At least it keeps me entertained, so I don’t complain.

7- My latest mania is going to gym. I was going to gym regularly 6 months ago, then got bored by doing the same routine. But now with Senthuran, always being so fussy when selecting the food court and the food to eat, the disease infected me. The friends that u make will make who you are, is completely true. After Senthuran was affected by this gym mania, now 3 of us were infected and are accompanying him to the gym and, do some lifting. Me body is fit and strong now!!haha!!


Hope you all enjoyed the read...I hereby pass the tag torch to Arjuna...he can do it after his A/Ls.