expensive to be practical but a tenacious and aptly-name airbus executive charles champion would’t no far an answer be encouraged his design team to think outside the box yeah where there are lots of a real design some look at the double one of their first ideas the double buubble a double-wide fuse large and large and look promising what computer analysis showed that would be far to heavy and not sufficiently they came up with this history-making concept a full-length double-decker passenger cabin with a third deck below the cargo soace wise it’s the equicalent of two complete wide-body cabins one on top the other the new plan called for an aircraft and 2.5 meters lobger than boeing 747 it was 15meters wider and five meters taller when they ran the design figure through the conputer they had a shark the plane was far too heavy we cane up with figures and my god this the weight of the aircraft doesn’t work we came up with courage figures in my god this is the launch of the problem or two three months afterwards we relaunched a very strong challenge on the weight the team set out to bring the bass weight of the aircraft beliw 277 tons that’s only about 50 percent heavier in the 747 an ambitiobs goal for a plane designed to carry over 100 more passengers and their luggage halfway around the world unless champion and his engineers were faced with a design challenge that called for a likely plane carrying over 550 passengers at a lower cost per seat not to mention quieter and less polluting than anything in the air the design team they would have to rethink everything they needed lighter material more powerful engines larger wings even bigger and smater factories every componant would
have to be scaled up from super-sized to mega size but even while the engineers were still scratching their heads over the details the ever sales force was already hard work seducing customers with visions of the future they’ve created a full-sized interior mock-up that promised passengers in coach some relief from the grind of travel with seats an inch wider than other plates and overhead bins ten percent larger each plane can also feature a new interior illumination scheme to eliminate the upsetting effect created when flight attendants suddenly switch on overhead lights the kinder gentler system in the a380 mimics the gradual transition from day to night and back to daytime again these and other innovations make the plane distinctive but it’s the promise of opulent luxury that really turns heads to help build excitement