Airbus A380

What keeps a plane like the new Airbus A380 in the air?

Aviation "history" was made on the morning of April 27, when the first Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial aircraft, made its maiden flight departing Blagnac International Airport in Toulouse, France, at 10.29h local time, flying west of Toulouse in South West France. The A380 weighs more than 420 tonnes (almost a million pounds), so what keeps such a hulk in the skies?

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