6 decently sized ones. Could maybe fly with 4 big engines but it’s an old design
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Those planes, even though more efficient, still won’t be good for most airlines since it would still take quite a lot of fuel.
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Well if anything that would have made it worse, increased capacity with the same wings, and not much more powerful eingeins would have only compounded what I said…
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Yep, the An-225 is about 28ish years old now.
Six. Which is two more than the A380F, which makes it even heavier.
So
In conclusion
The idea isn’t the greatest, considering the fuel burn and weight problems. So there we have it, the concept will never come into reality, unfortunately…
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Buddy I don’t think any of DHL’s, UPS or FedEx’s main concerns are regarding fuel efficiency. They operate aircraft vastly inefficient due to their age. A300, B757 etc
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but gives it more power. I’m not going to start a fight or anything here but I’d say that Airbus would’ve
had to add more powerful engines and loads of design changes to make the A380F fly safely.
The AN-225 has great wing placement as there is a lot of ground clearance, it was purpose built for cargo. The A380 arguably should have been built for cargo and then pax. I think it could have been successful in the cargo industry
Yes, I ment the pax version though,
But also increases it’s thrust output. I’m not sure what you’re point is from the start…
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I’m sure you are all guessing at this point. Freighters have the same engines as the passenger variants.
Yes, I know they do.
But the current A380 engines wouldn’t be able to handle all that cargo.
Ok, let’s clear the waters, it had nothing to do with efficiency, it was the volume to weight ratio. If you filled the plane up to whare it would be profitable it would not be able to take up. Cargo takes up more volume than pax, and is almost as, if not more dense than pax. A plane that is profitable with pax is not nessarly profitable with cargo for that reason…
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wow this topic really took off (pun intended)
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Here is djaviation’s Response in Youtube. Seen this pop up months ago. 👇
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6 engines to 4 engines @Altaria55
The A380 is too heavy to begin with. Adding heavy cargo would require A LOT more fuel etc. Thus, making it not efficient at all.
And the aircraft’s MTOW would be exceeded with all of that cargo and xtra fuel
The main thing that would make operating a A380F costly is that the upper deck would lay mostly unused, only the lower deck can handle the larger cargo crates while the upper deck doesn’t have that kind of space so only small individual packages would have loaded there (extremely time consuming)