Airbus A380 Makes 1st Flight to America

Mar 19, 2007 By MATT MOORE, AP Writer
Lufthansa Flying Airbus A380 to U.S. (AP)
Cabin personnel and crew are seen in a First Class section of he Airbus A380 as it is parked at the international airport in Frankfurt, central Germany, Sunday, March 18, 2007. On Monday the A380 will take off to New York as a Lufthansa test flight with some 500 passengers and crew on board. Long distance flights in the next days are aimed at testing the superjumbo's air condition system, the cabin light system and entertainment electronics. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

(AP) -- It may trail the historic impact of Charles Lindbergh's 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic, but the Spirit of St. Louis did not have a wingspan wider than a football field or space for more than 500 passengers.



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