A380 II

As mentioned here are some of the specs for the A380. This is going to be very technical so please bare with me. :)

1. The wing is made of a new material(composite) called GLARE. Let me see if I remember this from my materials' lectures. It is 30% lighter than Aluminium and is fatigue resistant. Not bad. At least I did learn something in Imperial. :P Anyway, the downside to this is that it cost more and it doesn't seem to perform well in hot temperatures especially in deserts.
   
2. The flushing system. They used F1 technology. Ah ha. Cool eh. It only takes 8 seconds for the sewage to travel from the front toilet to the tail where the refuse storage is. Sounds long but traveling nearly 80m down with immense pressure losses and all it is definitely something to shout about.
3. The engine. Made by Roll-Royce. The Trent 900. It provides less noise and less pollution but with more power. This also in general makes the flight more quiet. So yay! I can sleep more peacefully now.
4. The vertical tail plane is as tall as a 7-storey building. And the horizontal tail is as long as a small plane. So, you can imagine the size of the plane. It's just big!
5. Control system. Everything went digital. Looks cool and it seems very easy to fly. Well, most of the time it will be on auto-pilot. But now, the screens are all digital. So okay la. We need some EE engineers out there. :) Don't worry, they have a lot of satefy measurely if these were to fail.
6. Landing gear. It is one of the most important part. It requires to withstand tonnes of load and especially absorbing the impact during landing. So, they have to be really really strong.
   
7. Cabin bins where you put your overweight hand carry bags. I know you all definitely hit the 5kg limit. Heh. So, it seems that they have motor to open up the bins and can withstand about 70kgs. So, no worries.
   
8. Seating configuration could go up to 800 seats. Now, that's carrying about 8 full double-decker buses.
9. All the main parts of the plane; wing, fuselage(body), tail, engine and all are built in different European countries. And all are brought to Toulouse, France for assembly. Airbus said that it would produce that plane every week.
10. Wires. About 500km in length and about 300,000 joints. The is also one of the major setback to the first delivery of the plane. Hmmmmmmm. Now, talking about that much cable. :)
11. The seats are also designed to be more comfortable. I know the present seatings on-board are hard and stiff but it is because they are made of fireproof materials. Hehehe. More materials come to play here.
12. Due to its size, most airports in the world have to resize their gates and runways. By an extra 30-40%. KLIA can fit 3 planes at the same time for now. The furtherest gates at the satellite building has been resized and the runways are bigger now. An additional 3 more gates will be added when the second satellite building is completed.
    

And here is a picture of the plane flying into KLIA. I'm sure you know what those 2 buildings are framing the plane. :P I can't wait to ride in it.