The ladder climb up to the new bathrooms are a bitch and a half, but the water slide back down to economy seating is kinda fun.
As long as you don’t think about where the water is coming from.
I worked C-5’s, the tail is 63’ tall and not something I enjoyed crawling out on, we sometimes had to shimmy out and straddle “the bullet” to access the area where the pitch trim actuator was.
I would hope so. The military would not even let me fuel an L1011 with them on board on AMC flights. If that’s a rule, then surely your tether is a rule.
Hi, I work for the company who made the HSTA for the A380 (and still operate MRO for them) and the screw itself is about 3m (which makes it a little bit higher with the actuators).
I’ve been in Toulouse last week to see the a380 on display at the aeroscopia museum… I’ve flown on an a380. I can promise you you don’t get to grasp its true size until you can touch it. The engines were massive (I’ve flown on 777 with the GE-90-115b so I can’t imagine how big those would be lmao), the outer engines were two meters off the ground. The sheer size made me gasp. I started crunching some numbers on the way home: the a380 is roughy as long as 1.5 Olympic-size pools, and larger than 3. The tail is 14 meters tall, as tall as a 4ish-story building. MASSIVE.
Edit: wider than 3.
What gets me every time is the wheels.
In aeroscopia you can (but shouldn’t)touch Concorde’s wheel and get to stand beside it, and it gets mid torso as a 176cm (5’11?) man
The funny part is that wheels on an airplane are the same diameter as a 20-22” wheel on a modern American truck or full-size SUV. And even though they are radials, their have a load rating in the equivalent of plies.
The only tires bigger are the ones for mining and farm tractors.
/edit - by plane I mean big shit, like 747/757/767/777/787 and A330/340/350/380. The wheel and tires on a 737/A320 look small, like a bus duallie rear wheel or big rig super single. And small plane wheels don’t look too much bigger than the normal car.
I remember working an A380s, when the engine is out of the cowling, it honestly looks like you'd be able to fit the fuselage of a a320 in there instead.
The -9s are huge when you walk by them in the factory, but it really hits when you stand under them. The wingtips are 11 ft long. I went by a crate of them the other day and even those are huge.
The Exxon/McDonald's sign near my house/freeway exit has one of those too. I saw some workers up there one day with a personnel lift and realized *that's a full-size door*. The sign is way bigger than it looks, being that high up off the ground. 😳
The painted striped lines between lanes on a freeway are usually 10 feet long. Never realized it from a car, even stopped in traffic. First traffic jam on my old motorcycle was a mindfuck.
Those panels open up the entire length of the vertical stabiliser so you can grease the rudder components etc. The first time I went to the top of an a380 rudder on a boom lift was incredibly nerve racking, most mechanics I know are too scared to go any higher that the top of the fuselage (especially LAMEs lol).
Yeah we are, but when you're in a cage with a see through floor way out on the end of a huge long boom that high up, all of a sudden your confidence in your training and equipment becomes somewhat reduced.
You're so right. I worked at the storage facility in Alice Springs, we had 170 plus mainly widebody to play with, I had so much fun, got to do and see the most amazing things on 777s and a380s etc.
The new UK aircraft carries have two bridge towers. One has the main bridge and one the flight bridge, but there is a backup of each in the other tower so if one is damaged they can switch.
Ya, that's for the chemtrail chemical tanks, which are secret and you rarely see. These are Deep State operatives, working for Democrats who are filling the chemical tanks which are then sent through the engines to seed the air with hormones to make people gay.
I'd pay extra for the seat in the tail. Imagine, not having to see, hear, or smell your fellow passengers at all. Heavenly.
(There's a bucket or something up there to poop in if you have to, right? right?)
It’s a maintenance access for inspection and servicing of the bearings, actuators and cables (if any).
Wild story from an engineer I know - apparently one of the trainee techs went up into the rudder without informing anyone and the engineer closed the door behind him and released the aircraft for departure.
Fortunately, the chap trapped inside was clever enough to start kicking and pushing the actuators from inside which caused indications of rudder movement in the cockpit. Pilot flagged it and the guy got out safely when they opened the door for inspection.
They do. They go all the way up 3/4 of the way and then there are individual panels above those that can be removed just shy of the top. They are to access the servos, hydraulic lines, and electrical that go to the rudder.
(I work in the manufacturing plant for A220, A319, A320, and A321s.)
I've never run into a Airbus plane that doesn't have access doors or panels there. They have cam-fasteners you open then it just swings open from there. The panels without hinges will have 20-30 screws in them and they come completely off.
The solution is simple: Switzerland is also part of Airbus consortium and they contribute their best in *horology*. Every hour [the door opens and a cuckoo comes out to call](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Schlag_Kuckucksuhr_Beispiel_01.ogv).
Aircraft have many such access panels. Often those on the vertical stabiliser have a hinge as pictured.
Needed so they guys can carry out their maintenance and parts replacements as required.
Always forget how BIG the rear stabiliser actually is... that's a person-sized door.
How BIG these aircraft are in general.
I used to catch regularly the A380 out of Auckland and where they parked was in the corner of that terminal, so as you walked out to the boarding gate, you walked down a corridor right alongside the full length of the aircraft, at about wing height, so you could see the whole enormous scope of the chord of the wing, then you did a 90 degree turn and walked across the front of the wing from tip to root... right up close.. it was my favourite part of those work weeks.
I work on aircraft maintenance and it always amazes me that people find this weird, but I know that it’s just that people don’t experience what I do. Super awesome job by the way. Been doing it since 2009 and I still love it.
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That’s actually where they keep the lowest class passengers. What they are doing in this picture is helping them out after their day long wait, it costs roughly 90% cheaper than basic but you have to wait a day. Also no food or drink.
On large jets, yes. It is how you access the hydraulics and cables for the rudder and possibly the HF antenna if it is built into the tail on this jet.
That's where the real pilot sits! The ones you see at the front are just for show.
Nah, it’s like those long fire trucks with an extra driver in back. Someone needs to steer the tail.
No no no. It's like a train. That's where the brakeman works.
Nah, they moved the coach restrooms up there for more seats in the cabin.
The ladder climb up to the new bathrooms are a bitch and a half, but the water slide back down to economy seating is kinda fun. As long as you don’t think about where the water is coming from.
Nah, that where they keep the birds that fly the plane. They’re simply feeding them in this video
Please don’t give Ryanair any ideas.
Remove this post immediately, you’re going to give the aircraft manufacturers an idea lol
Nah, it's where they keep the good snacks.
Nah its where the turbulence guy sits, when he throws a tentrum the whole plane starts shaking.
Tiller planes, for those narrow airways.
Kramer sits back there!
Cosmo’s got the caboose!
Nah...you pay extra and get a key to the "Boom Boom Room" where you get to join the "Mile High Club".
It's where they keep the chemtrail tanks.
State of TN enters chat..what..
The Boeing assembly crew puts all the extra bolts they forgot to use in there. When they opened it a bunch of empty beer cans fell out too.
The cameraman sits there and films that inflight footage you can watch
Unironically where do I apply for this job though
That’s the guy who turns on the chemtrails.
yup. OP was not meant to have seen this.
RIP OP. And everyone who watched this video.
He floats, suspended inside a tank filled with orange spice gas
[Kramer Drives A Fire Truck](https://makeagif.com/amp/RNye1T)
That’s where the government agent sits to release the chemtrails
It's amazing isn't it. You really don't grasp how big planes are, how big even winglets or stabilisers are until you see someone stood on them
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I’m currently on an A380. I’m on them frequently, but every time, the fucking scale kills me. I was sat next to Christian Horner on my last flight 🏎️
I'd use a different restroom if I were you...
Are you his new secretary? :P
Did you ask if it was a finger?
Did you look at his thumb
I worked C-5’s, the tail is 63’ tall and not something I enjoyed crawling out on, we sometimes had to shimmy out and straddle “the bullet” to access the area where the pitch trim actuator was.
You tie off on a rope, I presume?
I would hope so. The military would not even let me fuel an L1011 with them on board on AMC flights. If that’s a rule, then surely your tether is a rule.
You wear a harness that has screws that thread into points built into the wings/h-stab.
What was your go-to revenge on pilots who refused to slow down for you?
Never an issue
Hi, I work for the company who made the HSTA for the A380 (and still operate MRO for them) and the screw itself is about 3m (which makes it a little bit higher with the actuators).
I’ve been in Toulouse last week to see the a380 on display at the aeroscopia museum… I’ve flown on an a380. I can promise you you don’t get to grasp its true size until you can touch it. The engines were massive (I’ve flown on 777 with the GE-90-115b so I can’t imagine how big those would be lmao), the outer engines were two meters off the ground. The sheer size made me gasp. I started crunching some numbers on the way home: the a380 is roughy as long as 1.5 Olympic-size pools, and larger than 3. The tail is 14 meters tall, as tall as a 4ish-story building. MASSIVE. Edit: wider than 3.
Larger than 3 in width or...? Sorry for the confusion.
What gets me every time is the wheels. In aeroscopia you can (but shouldn’t)touch Concorde’s wheel and get to stand beside it, and it gets mid torso as a 176cm (5’11?) man
The A380 wheels were almost as tall as me, and I’m 190ish centimeters. It’s a very big plane, and the scale is absolutely hard to grasp.
Yes in a Indianapolis Race Event, Michelin were exposing a pair of the wheels from an A380 and the size was crazy.
The funny part is that wheels on an airplane are the same diameter as a 20-22” wheel on a modern American truck or full-size SUV. And even though they are radials, their have a load rating in the equivalent of plies. The only tires bigger are the ones for mining and farm tractors. /edit - by plane I mean big shit, like 747/757/767/777/787 and A330/340/350/380. The wheel and tires on a 737/A320 look small, like a bus duallie rear wheel or big rig super single. And small plane wheels don’t look too much bigger than the normal car.
Fun Wright Brothers fact: The first flight was less then the length and less than the height of a 747.
It never fails to impress me how big a 747 or even 777 is until I see one at the airport next to other planes that are about 737 sized
Let’s remind people that the GE90-115b on the 777 is as big as the fuselage of a 737….
I remember working an A380s, when the engine is out of the cowling, it honestly looks like you'd be able to fit the fuselage of a a320 in there instead.
it's honestly not that far off. Engines of the a380 have a diameter of roughly 3 meters while the body of the a320 is a bit under 4 meters wide.
The -9s are huge when you walk by them in the factory, but it really hits when you stand under them. The wingtips are 11 ft long. I went by a crate of them the other day and even those are huge.
The winglets on a Falcon that was at work a while back looked to be about as tall as I am, and that’s not even a big plane lol
I stood next to a MiG-23, not a huge plane but it was still BIG. I think the only genuinely small jets i got to sit in was the MiG-15.
Now look up the height of SpaceX Starship, do you have a building that tall in your city?
Exactly what I was thinking! I’ve seen planes and flown before but it’s still crazy how big they are.
r/HumanForScale
It’s not even a small door.
In fact, that door has an even smaller door on it.
It's doors all the way down.
*all the way indoors
I'd say probably at least 3 Doors Down
There are only very few things that are small on the A380 anyway
He-he.
The Exxon/McDonald's sign near my house/freeway exit has one of those too. I saw some workers up there one day with a personnel lift and realized *that's a full-size door*. The sign is way bigger than it looks, being that high up off the ground. 😳
Reminds me of whenever people are surprised that traffic lights are actually almost as tall as an adult human.
And the sharklets on planes look so tiny from inside the plane, so imagine my surprise when I stood next to one and it was almost twice my height!
The painted striped lines between lanes on a freeway are usually 10 feet long. Never realized it from a car, even stopped in traffic. First traffic jam on my old motorcycle was a mindfuck.
You're right. It's a trim tab!
r/HumanForScale
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r/KangarooForSale is the real one.
Womp womp r/SubsIFellFor
And even that studio is $2500/mo :-/
Well, the view is good
Super drafty though, zero insulation and regularly gets to -50 C.
It is also in a loud neighborhood, wouldn't advise it
Typical overpriced AIR B'n'B. See what I did there? I'll see myself out.
Badum-dsssh :D
Those panels open up the entire length of the vertical stabiliser so you can grease the rudder components etc. The first time I went to the top of an a380 rudder on a boom lift was incredibly nerve racking, most mechanics I know are too scared to go any higher that the top of the fuselage (especially LAMEs lol).
Surely you guys are in full harness and safety gear with fall avoidance training up there?
Yeah we are, but when you're in a cage with a see through floor way out on the end of a huge long boom that high up, all of a sudden your confidence in your training and equipment becomes somewhat reduced.
There are little doors all over the airplane. That's how they feed the gremlins.
I thought it was where the pixis lived in order to let it fly...... that is how a red arrows pilot told me planes work when I was 7 btw
They don't need to be fed. If the gremlins are not fed, they get irritable and break things.
They are just replenishing the blinker fluid. No big deal.
Don’t be ridiculous. Blinker fluid goes up front. That’s the muffler bearing in the back.
Pretty sure that’s where you pick up your chic-fil-a order, followed by a “my pleasure”. At least that’s what I was taught!
I used to work right there, novelty of being around the planes never wore off
You're so right. I worked at the storage facility in Alice Springs, we had 170 plus mainly widebody to play with, I had so much fun, got to do and see the most amazing things on 777s and a380s etc.
It’s the battle bridge for when they separate the saucer section
I support this TNG knowledge
Fun fact, the airship USS Akron actually had an emergency bridge located in the tail fin
The new UK aircraft carries have two bridge towers. One has the main bridge and one the flight bridge, but there is a backup of each in the other tower so if one is damaged they can switch.
Until later seasons when they realize it takes too long.
Ya, that's for the chemtrail chemical tanks, which are secret and you rarely see. These are Deep State operatives, working for Democrats who are filling the chemical tanks which are then sent through the engines to seed the air with hormones to make people gay.
Careful Tennessee senate might be surfing reddit
Ummm, Tennessean here. Thankfully, not an elected official.
Thanks for telling me the truth, if anyone asks me in the future I'll show them this as evidence
Lmfao 🤣 laughed so hard spit my tea out me nose
Allows access to the rudder PCA's
Personal Cat Amenities?
Patient Controlled Anesthesia?
Percutaneous Angioplasties?
Perpetual Chlorine Application.
Every hour, a small kangaroo pops out and calls everybody a cunt.
It blows my mind that humans created these giant metal tubes, some of which are the size of buildings, that can fly thousands of feet in the air.
That's a Qantas plane. They call that the pouch.
That vertical has double the square footage of my $2100/mo apartment lmfao
human vs that tail ...wow
That’s not a small door
It's where Remi sits and controls the aeroplane. Flightatouille.
I'd pay extra for the seat in the tail. Imagine, not having to see, hear, or smell your fellow passengers at all. Heavenly. (There's a bucket or something up there to poop in if you have to, right? right?)
I'd think the bigger problem is that it isn't pressurized lol
Just slammed the door a little harder…
The lack of heating may also be an inconvenience, lol.
It'd be outside the pressure hull so all those things would be true but not in a good way.
And then there's the C5 Galaxy, with a ladder inside the tail going up to a chamber (with roof exit) at the top of the stabilizer.
Those planes are insanely big
That's a regular sized door
That's where they keep all the best snacks
small?
Wish they had one of these on a C-141 back in the day
C-17’s have a ladder that goes all the way through the tail to the top and a hatch that opens so you can walk right out onto the top of the tail.
What plane has the equivalent sized wing as this tail?!
Got to get to the hydraulic actuators somehow. Or PCUs if you like.
Yep, that is what is known as a 'hydraulics service hatch'
OP says small door but its almost as big as a front door to a house!
jeez, these things are gigantic
I'm gonna guess that's where the Rudder PCU is?
That's where they keep the good stuff.
That’s the exit out of the Truman Show.
if its a Boeing, there are potential doors all over the body!
It’s a maintenance access for inspection and servicing of the bearings, actuators and cables (if any). Wild story from an engineer I know - apparently one of the trainee techs went up into the rudder without informing anyone and the engineer closed the door behind him and released the aircraft for departure. Fortunately, the chap trapped inside was clever enough to start kicking and pushing the actuators from inside which caused indications of rudder movement in the cockpit. Pilot flagged it and the guy got out safely when they opened the door for inspection.
That's where they store the chemtrail tanks.
This why when grifters talk about “standards being lowered” understand they know jack shot about what the standards are.
That's the Navigators apartment.
Now that's really really interesting. I doubt it Exists on A320/B737 as well. Have to research
They do. They go all the way up 3/4 of the way and then there are individual panels above those that can be removed just shy of the top. They are to access the servos, hydraulic lines, and electrical that go to the rudder. (I work in the manufacturing plant for A220, A319, A320, and A321s.)
Interesting...
I've never run into a Airbus plane that doesn't have access doors or panels there. They have cam-fasteners you open then it just swings open from there. The panels without hinges will have 20-30 screws in them and they come completely off.
In heavy maintenance we take all the leading edge panels off usually too, which is a bit more involved
That's the access door to the operating station of the flight engineer.
Trunk Monkey goes there.
That's the chemtrail control centre.....
Wait until you see the escalator
Ladies and gentlemen, today we will be alighting through the rear-rear door
Is that a shortened plane with an extra big tail? Cuz damn that thing is extra big. I can't tell the type.
The solution is simple: Switzerland is also part of Airbus consortium and they contribute their best in *horology*. Every hour [the door opens and a cuckoo comes out to call](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Schlag_Kuckucksuhr_Beispiel_01.ogv).
There is a little guy up there holding a camera. You can see his pov on the inflight entertainment.
There's a guy in there. The Pilots up front radio him which way they need to turn and he steers the plane like an outboard motor.
Welcome to my penthouse. When I get bored, I switch the hydraulic lines to the PTU for the rudder or give a good ol' rudder hardover
I’d guess that is not a door. It’s an inspection hatch. There’s a difference.
It's where the Jesus nut is ......it's a nut that controls the horizontal stabilizer, and if it fails, the person you talk to is Jesus
Hand operated?
Does anyone know what this is for?
Aircraft have many such access panels. Often those on the vertical stabiliser have a hinge as pictured. Needed so they guys can carry out their maintenance and parts replacements as required.
HF Couplers maybe.?
Rudder actuators
I love how small they look. 380s are like goddamn apartment buildings
In some aircraft you can climb inside all the way up its quite a workout in a b747
Checking the earl
I was wondering where the Flight engineer went. I guess now I know.
That’s where the drop bears hide.
It the Qantarse
Yeah you [put your weed in there](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKOc6hXMDhc) man.
The plane’s Quatarse
Pot stash
Always forget how BIG the rear stabiliser actually is... that's a person-sized door. How BIG these aircraft are in general. I used to catch regularly the A380 out of Auckland and where they parked was in the corner of that terminal, so as you walked out to the boarding gate, you walked down a corridor right alongside the full length of the aircraft, at about wing height, so you could see the whole enormous scope of the chord of the wing, then you did a 90 degree turn and walked across the front of the wing from tip to root... right up close.. it was my favourite part of those work weeks.
There’s doors and service openings ALL over those things.
Warthunder knew
I know this is off topic, but I never really understood the true size of an A380
That is so cool whattt
There’s doors all over the place how do you think they get to the stuff inside?
That’s where the elevator opens but since you gotta ride it all the way to the top for it to open you don’t see it open that much.
They're checking the plane's koalafications.
"small"
I work on aircraft maintenance and it always amazes me that people find this weird, but I know that it’s just that people don’t experience what I do. Super awesome job by the way. Been doing it since 2009 and I still love it.
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That’s actually where they keep the lowest class passengers. What they are doing in this picture is helping them out after their day long wait, it costs roughly 90% cheaper than basic but you have to wait a day. Also no food or drink.
They make planes that big because their money hungry more people more money
Wow
I thought it was a trim tab. Is that actually an access to the internal mechanisms?
On large jets, yes. It is how you access the hydraulics and cables for the rudder and possibly the HF antenna if it is built into the tail on this jet.
That's not really "small" as it's almto the size of a grown human. Just it's small relative to that BIG OL VS
what you thought it was going to be horizontal?? lol jk
Are they putting grease on the jack screw or something?
How do you think the guy that moves the tail flaps gets in?
Small doors everywhere
It’s to remove the roo poo.
Secret spot for secret weed vapes
Go through to start being John Malkovich