Credits and licence
Not affiliated with Airbus. This figure is an independent illustration. It is not made, endorsed, sponsored or approved by Airbus, Rolls-Royce or any airline. Airbus and A380 are trademarks of Airbus; Rolls-Royce and Trent are trademarks of Rolls-Royce plc. They are used here only to name what is drawn. The drawing is not an engineering model and is not for operational, training or safety use.
The figure
An interactive, true-3D cutaway of the Airbus A380-800 on a turntable, drawn in the browser: the airframe is projected and painted every frame, and the lights, glow and effects are drawn with WebGL. Every size, rate and rule comes from the sources below; the numbers the project's truth sheet (in its source repository) marks as estimates are engineering estimates, and heights and time are compressed for the turntable.
Built with the Anatomy kit
The figure is built with the Anatomy skill's kit (the isometric and true-3D figure builder, the turntable, the painters and the WebGL layer), released under the MIT licence:
MIT License Copyright (c) 2026 Ryan Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Sources
The measurements and procedures come from these documents; the project's truth sheet (in its source repository) cites each number to one of them.
- Airbus, A380 Aircraft Characteristics: Airport and Maintenance Planning, issue Mar 30/05, Rev. 20 Dec 01/25. www.aircraft.airbus.com Primary. Chapters cited as AC 2-2-0 etc. The drawings are vector PDF.
- EASA TCDS EASA.A.110 Airbus A380, Issue 17, 05 Aug 2026. www.easa.europa.eu Primary.
- EASA TCDS E.012 RB211 Trent 900, Issue 12, 16 Mar 2026. www.easa.europa.eu Primary.
- EASA TCDS IM.E.026 Engine Alliance GP7200, Issue 03, 04 Jan 2013. www.easa.europa.eu Primary.
- Airbus, A380 Facts & Figures, Dec 2021. www.airbus.com Primary (marketing sheet).
- Airbus Safety First, A Focus on the Takeoff Rotation. safetyfirst.airbus.com (PDF mms-safetyfirst.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com) Primary.
- A. Hebborn (Airbus UK), A380 Landing Gear and Systems: An Overview, DGLR Hamburg, June 2008. www.fzt.haw-hamburg.de Primary.
- Collins Aerospace, Airbus A380 Lighting Equipment. www.rtx.com Supplier catalogue.
- 14 CFR 25.1385-1401 (nav light sectors, anti-collision 40-100 cycles/min). www.ecfr.gov Regulation (CS-25 identical).
- FlyByWire A380X docs (exterior lights panel docs.flybywiresim.com ; SOP docs.flybywiresim.com ; engine start and taxi docs.flybywiresim.com) and source (
fbw-a380x/src/wasm/systems/a380_systems/src/hydraulic/mod.rs,fbw-common/.../hydraulic/flap_slat.rs, issue #10183) github.com Secondary: a community simulation written to mirror the FCOM. Used for panel behaviour and SOP flow, and (as E) for surface rates. - Airliners.net "A380 Flap Settings" (quotes an EADS PDF) www.airliners.net ; Capt. Dave (A380 pilot) captaindave.aero Secondary.
- Avionics Today, A380 Innovations: A Balancing Act (2003). www.aviationtoday.com Secondary (trade press).
- Flight International, Creating a Titan (14 Jun 2005). www.flightglobal.com Secondary, paywalled; figures from the search abstract only.
- PPRuNe "Airbus Strobes" www.pprune.org ; Collins A320 LED anti-collision spec www.rtx.com Secondary, A320-family timing.
- Window pitch: www.airliners.net ; gear timing: www.airliners.net ; tail strike: quizlet.com ; sites: www.airframer.com , simpleflying.com ; flap/slat sequencing: Airbus patent US 9,457,888 image-ppubs.uspto.gov Secondary, low weight.