One of Europe's major airports has installed these bizarre custom-made hangar doors to accommodate the world's largest passenger plane.

The doors at Munich Airport have been made with a large hole in the middle so they can close around the Airbus A380 leaving the tail fin sticking outside of the hangar.

Before the new rail-mounted gates were installed, the giant planes could only be maintained with the hangar doors left open, leaving mechanics and maintenance workers shivering on cold days.





https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-6396857/Airport-installs-custom-hangar-doors-accommodate-worlds-largest-passenger-planes.html

The doors which were built to accommodate the planes, measure 72 feet high and 36 feet wide.

It took four weeks to build the 20 ton doors.

There are five Airbus A380s which are part of the Lufthansa fleet and they have been based at the airport since March.

The large hole means the tail fin is left sticking a full 6.6 feet outside the hangar during maintenance work.

An airport spokesperson said the hole fits snugly around the plane and prevents chilly draughts.

They added that leaving the tail fin outside would not pose any problems even in the coldest conditions, as the planes are used to flying at temperatures dipping to minus 60 degrees Celsius.

Munich Airport, in the south-eastern German state of Bavaria, is the second-busiest airport in Germany and the seventh-busiest in Europe.

The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine jet airliner which can carry 525 people in a typical three-class configuration.

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Munich Airport, in the south-eastern German state of Bavaria, is the second-busiest airport in Germany and the seventh-busiest in Europe.

The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine jet airliner manufactured by Airbus.

It is the world's largest passenger airliner, and the airports at which it operates have upgraded facilities to accommodate it.



Manufacturer - Airbus

First flight - 27 April 2005

Primary users - Emirates, Singapore Airlines, Lufthansa

Produced - 2005 till date

Number built - 230 as of September, 2018

Unit cost - US$445.6 million(2018)



It provides seating for 525 people in a typical three-class configuration or up to 853 people in an all-economy class configuration.

The A380-800 has a designrangeof 8,500 nautical miles (15,700 km), serving the fourth- and seventh-longest non-stop scheduled flights in the world, and acruising speed of Mach 0.85 (about 900 km/h, 560 mph or 490 kt at cruising altitude).

Over here, the road leading to our "hairport" is in shambles..
Shithole

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these guys think on the go

omo.,,see developed world unlike our naija

Wow

Nice. That door big o.
22metres. More than 5ive storey building

People wah get sense

what about Nigeria airport what about Nigeria airport

kayojosephy:
The gap is thousand years and more... We are living a totally different time and era, flying in a plane to places like this is like travelling from the 18th century of Nigeria to 21st century life they live over there... The smartphone is the tool that keeps us abreast of their 21st century.... Explorers good job...

And another update from explorers which we get from our smartphone... Africa will get there one day...

Awesome plane, last flight for this Captain.
San Francisco to Frankfurt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJDvEMoFTow

Omoh see technology,meanwhile over here nah for night our technology dey fly.