Hardly noticed by the public, the largest aircraft parking lot in Europe has been built in a semidesert in Spain. Close to the city of Teruel in the east of the country, aircraft from a wide variety of airlines have been mothballed. Their future uncertain. Since the coronavirus crisis, these include the largest and most expensive aircraft in the world. For example, the Airbus A380 and the jumbo jet, the Boeing 747: two symbols of a decadeslong "air war" between Airbus and Boeing. Fourjet airplanes are considered fuel guzzlers and CO2 sinners.
Even the modern A380, which is approved for up to 853 passengers, was withdrawn from service by many airlines after just a few years of operation. Never before in the history of aviation has such an expensive series aircraft been taken out of service after such a short time. But its end is far from certain. This is demonstrated by the history of the Emirates airline, which is relying more than ever on the A380 model and has taken delivery of around half of all aircraft built. Without the A380, the airline's success would have been just as impossible as the rapid development of Dubai into one of the most important intercontinental transportation hubs.
The documentary "The Battle for the Giant Planes" uses exclusive footage and entertaining eyewitnesses to tell the adventurous stories of the battle for size in aviation. Both Airbus and Boeing threatened to fall into the abyss with the development of a giant aircraft. But for both of them, the gamble paid off in the end.


Chapters
▷ 0:00 Introduction
▷ 2:01 Emirates airline and its A380, flight to Dubai
▷ 4:11 First Class on the upper deck
▷ 5:00 First airport in Dubai in 1959
▷ 6:10 Sir Tim Clark, President of Emirates, on the importance of the A380
▷ 8:35 Dornier Do X takes off on Lake Constance
▷ 9:14 Wiking starts in Hamburg on the Elbe
▷ 9:40 First airliners (Boeing 314 Clipper) fly across the Pacific
▷ 11:40 Ronald Marasco on the first Boeing 747 for Pan Am, 1969
▷ 15:50 Candice Adams on the profession of stewardess/flight attendant
▷ 17:18 Teheran 1970
▷ 19:20 Lufthansa Jumbo Jets
▷ 20:25 Barbara Kracht on the founding of Airbus in Toulouse in 1970
▷ 22:20 Supersonic passenger aircraft Concorde
▷ 23:00 Airbus Showroom: A300B, A220, A350, Luxury in the A380
▷ 25:20 First flight of the A300
▷ 28:25 Scott Hamilton, author of "Air Wars", on the competition between Boeing and Airbus
▷ 29:09 Boeing 747 as Air Force One, carrier of the Space Shuttle and the flying space telescope for NASA and DLR: SOFIA
▷ 29:50 John Leahy on the development of the A380
▷ 32:00 Airbus plant in HamburgFinkenwerder
▷ 33:18 Susanne von Arciszewski on the problems of assembling the A380
▷ 37:15 Singapore Airlines gets first A380, followed by Air France, British Airways and Lufthansa
▷ 38:50 Lufthansa orders new Boeing 747B
▷ 41:10 Fiona Moroney and Heba Makram on the training of flight attendants at Emirates
▷ 44:00 Two engines against four
▷45:00 Aviation engineer Sonja Schweicker on the last delivery of the A380
▷ 46:20 A380 fan Arun Rajagopal about the A380



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