New A-380 Pics
 

This site has a collection of the A-380's most recent visit to Iqaluit (neé Frobisher Bay). The text is in French:

http://charles1.ca/photos.htm

...but you can visit a humourously-translated version here (Via google babelfish):

http://tinyurl.com/2gyxbz

"Famished engineers were made deliver food of a popular snack"

Cheers,
Geoff Glave
Vancouver, Canada

Thanks for the pics Geoff........I wonder why they were in the frozen north ?

Probably cheaper / easier to do cold-weather testing in the frozen north than build a giant freezer :)

Assume it's to make sure the doors still open, the engines still start after a night in the cold etc. I recall watching "21st Century Jet" where they did similar things with the 777 - i.e. coat it in six inches of ice and make sure the doors still popped open.

Cheers,
Geoff Glave
Vancouver, Canada

PS For those who are interested, today in Iqaluit the high is minus 29, sunrise is at 8:36 and sunset 14:56.

LOL.....good one.....I meant "our" frozen north versus, say Russia's or someone else's in Europe.

According to...

http://www.tetracom.ca/transtalk/?p=721

...it's because of the relatively dry, very cold weather and its 2,745 metre runway. Might also help that some of the federal bureaucrats may speak both French and English.

Cheers,
Geoff Glave
Vancouver, Canada

Interesting....thanks !!

Thanks for the great photos.

Nice pictures!

Cant wait to see the "apparatus" with installed seats in 2 weeks!

Must be a big event in our frozen north to lighten up their dull winter

Now those interiors are going to be a lot closer to what we will experience than all the glossy artist's renderings we've seen! Nice shots...now I've gotta head out into similar weather down here!

Mounties per capita? :)

"Let us go, go up on the floor".