A380 JFK-ORD March 20 th, 2007
Lufthansa A380 Lounge in JFK
A380 on the Ramp in JFK
Mike Gentile and Mike Schlicting at JFK
View from Boarding the Aircraft in JFK
Boarding the Aircraft (Upstairs Business Class is where everyone sat)
View of A/C from the Inflight Entertainment System
Outside View from Business Class on the Second Level Btw, Emirates (in the background) is going “Folks, we bought 29 of those…”
In Case of Emergency…Slides Deploy Everywhere
Camera Crew aboard the Flight
View from In flight JFK-ORD
Main Entrance Stair Case
Upstairs in Business
Economy Downstairs (1 st Cabin)
Downstairs in Economy
Economy Downstairs (2 nd Cabin)
Downstairs in Economy Notice How the Walls Slope Inwards toward the Bottom
First Class
The On Board Bar
Rear Stairs and Galleys Notice the Mock Wood Floors
View from the Lavatory
Tail Camera View of Everyone in Chicago to meet the flight
View from the Window of Everyone who met the flight
Leaving the Airplane
United Ground Handling Services - Always there when you need us…
Arrival Signage: Airbus, United, and Lufthansa
Supersize those Engines for me Please…
A heck of a lot of Wheels back there
Rear Back Wheels on the Main Bogeys have no Brakes! (but are steerable)
Where is all of the ground equipment going to go?
The “Tunnel” inside the Rear Cargo Hold
Trying to Open the Front Cargo Hold (The trick is to unlatch and within 15 seconds active the door Mechanism)
The Infamous Tow bar that Didn’t Fit!
The infamous backup Towbar from Airbus There is still a spare towbar in the Cargo Hold (but will it work?)
Michael Schlicting, United Ground Handling Services, 2007