Originally Posted by
BahrainLad
In fact, I think some of the A380 wing design goes back to pioneering work done by Hawker-Siddely, but I am not entirely sure where I read that.
There are some fine pictures on airliners.net (unfortunately I can't go searching for them now) which show the Airbus wing
twisting under take-off load, as opposed to the Boeing wing which just bends.
Looks a bit bizarre but doubtless there's a perfectly reasonable explanation...