We were privileged (mainly due to Thai Airways’ order for a couple of A380s) to be recipients of a visit by the new Airbus A380, the world’s largest airliner. It landed at Chiang Mai airport in part to demonstrate that the A380 can land at secondary airports without difficulty.
We went out to a footbridge over Hang Dong road near the airport to watch it land. We waited in the hot sun for a long time while the schedule kept getting pushed back. The A380 had scraped its wing on a hangar door in Bangkok and finally they simply removed the vertical winglet on the wings.
Without further ado, here’s the hi-def video (taken with my Canon TX-1) of the plane landing:
2:44
Hi-def: MPEG-2, 1280×720, 376 MB
Hi-def: WMV, 1280×720, 9.5 Mbps, 153 MB
Hi-def: WMV, 1280×720, 3.6 Mbps, 58 MB (While I’m sure a videophile could, I can’t tell the quality difference between these first three)
Lo-Def: MPEG-4, 320×240, 1 Mbps, 22 MB (not recommended)
YouTube
Play the WMV files in something other than Windows Media Player. For some reason WMP squishes it down to 4:3 instead of properly displaying it at 16:9. (I recommend Media Player Classic.)
Here are some pics that my good friend Darren took with his Canon 10D:
Airbus A380 approaching Chiang Mai International Airport
Airbus A380 landing at Chiang Mai International Airport
