Big Bird comes in for a landing.

At 12h17 pm local time, the Airbus A380 touched down at Trudeau International Airport in Montreal. An absolute monster of a plane, the A380 represents the pinnacle of aircraft technology. I took these pictures with a 18-200mm zoom and it was maxed out.

It came in earlier then scheduled and the traffic in the area was brutal, therefore no parking. We just double-parked in the street and had just enough time to jump out of the car and start snapping away.

It was all over in just about 30 short seconds. The plane is supposed to come back on this thursday (15 nov), I hope it lands around the same time...I'll try to set up a couple minutes before!


Man, that thing was big...I'm lucky enough that the office is a couple of klicks away from the airport so a bunch of us went planespotting and we were not alone, at least, on this side of the airport. Apparently, at the intersection of hwy 40 and hwy 13 (one of three viewing hotspot) the cops were telling folks to go back the way they came, they were causing a huge traffic jam. Robert, my collegue, was just a little south of that area and took this video with a Palm PDA. Pretty cool!




My other collegue François also snapped a good pic. Merci vieux!



Our area was filled with bystanders, helicopters news teams....all gawking at this hunk of metal, plastis, rubber, wiring and electronics driven by four of the biggest engines you can see. I hate flying, (scared, actually) but brother, that was a cool display of Aircraft Savoir-Faire!