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Watch a Mammoth Airbus A380 Go From the Assembly Line to the Runway

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngxw37gqHQM

No matter how annoying it gets to squish into an economy seat, it’s hard to deny that airplanes are awe-inspiring. Watching Qatar Airways’ recent Airbus A380 assembled highlights how intricate the design of these beastly machines really is.

https://gizmodo.com/cheap-airline-seats-shouldnt-recline-at-all-1626921321

They’re million pound winged buses that soar thousands of feet above the ground for thousands of miles like some kind of freakish wizard trick. It’s nuts that we figured out how to make these things.

Qatar Airways chronicled how its first Airbus A380 went from a bunch of gleaming airplane parts to a functional carrier in a webseries on YouTube. Here are the rest of the episodes if you’re looking for your daily dose of airplane porn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq2vCL6NbTs

Anyone else have a sudden urge to buy a plane ticket?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_Q7-kjuAzE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od67OOlpSc0

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