Airbus A380

Karen Berger
Eric Harris
Rafael Perez
30 April 2005
http://www.airbus.com/product/a380_backgrounder.asp 1
Motivation for design
 The A380 aircraft was introduced to
help deal with the increasing number of
people traveling by air

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Dimensions
Length 238' 8"
Span 261' 10"
Height 79'
Wing Area 9100 ft2
AR 7.5
taper ratio 0.153
sweep 33 deg 30'
Stail 6968.2 ft2
Swet 45460 ft2
tail scrape angle 14.3o
t/c 0.09
Capacity 555-800
Empty Weight 610,700 lb
Full Weight 1,234,600 lb
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Dimensioned picture

79’ 1”

261’ 10”
239’ 6”
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/jetliner/a380/index.shtml 4
Performance

Max Cruise Speed 0.88 M

Max Cruise Range
Speed 0.85 M

Ceiling 43,000 ft

5600 nm freighter
Range
8000 nm passenger

Vstall 121 kts

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 Propulsion
Trent 900

Seats/
Engine EIS Power Applications Range (nm)*
Payload
Trent 970 2006 70,000lb Airbus A380-800 555 8000 T/W=0.055
311kN

Trent 977 2008 76,500lb Airbus A380-800F 150 5600

340kN tonnes

http://www.rolls-royce.com/civil_aerospace/products/airlines/trent900/intro.jsp 6
Propulsion
Engine Alliance GP-7267

Thrust 81,500 lbs

T/W 0.066

http://www.enginealliance.com/gpintro.html 7
Controls
 2 ailerons/2 actuators per wing
 8 Spoilers
 Conventional Rudder/Elevator

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Aerodynamic data
Wing Loading 135.74 lb/ft
Clcruise 0.492
Clmax 2.6
implied L/D 20.3
np 115.2
cg 101.05
∂Cm/ ∂Cl -0.48905
flat wing span load 4715.5
load split (Wing/Tail) 93% on wing
for trim cruise at CL=1
Cl at tailscrape-1deg 2.68
Cdo 0.0121
Static Margin 14.15

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 CL distribution
Cl distribution
1.6
1.4
1.2
Wing
1
Horizontal Tail
0.8
Cl

0.6
0.4
0.2
0
-1.2 -1 -0.8 -0.6 -0.4 -0.2 0
b/2
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Additions
 No data on the airfoil could be found
 No band aids are knows since flight
testing has yet to begin
 Flight tests expected soon and will reveal
needed changes

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References
http://www.airliners.net/info/stats.main?id=29
http://www.aerospace-technology.com/projects/a380/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380
Jane's All the worlds Aircraft 2001-2002, 2003-2004, 2004-2005
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/jetliner/a380/index.shtml
http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~mason/Mason_f/A380Collins.pdf
http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~mason/Mason_f/A380Weisman.pdf

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