The Airbus A380 remains the largest commercial passenger aircraft to ever fly, proving as revolutionary today as it was when unveiled two decades ago. Outdoing even the great ‘Queen of the Skies’ Boeing 747, the A380 will still be the largest in terms of passenger capacity even with the imminent arrival of the Boeing 777X, which will be the longest passenger jet ever built, but not the largest overall.
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You might think the worlds largest passenger plane, the A380, needs all the help it can get to come to a stop after landing. With that assumption, youd think the A380 would have reverse thrusters on all four of its engines.However, reverse thrusters are just one tool in the A380s braking armory. When the A380 was designed, it was soon established that having reverse thrusters on all four A380 engines caused more issues than they solved. Lets take a closer look