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Maiden flight for the first Airbus A-380 aircraft of Thai Airways

Hamburg, Germany - Five more will follow. No revelations about the case of wing cracks

The maiden flight of the first Thai Airways A-380, the Thai flag company, has been concluded yesterday March 6, 2012 in Germany. The aircraft, without the official livery, did its first flight after the tests operated in Toulouse, France, by the Airbus establishment where the assembling and system tests have been completed last November. After a four hour flight, the "Beast" (must remember the...

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Rome, Italy, 03/07/2012 12:38
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