Few airliners can make people stop and look, quite like the A380 does. Europe's super jumbo is not the largest aircraft - that's the giant one-off Antonov An-225 Mryia - but it's still an aircraft of superlatives. It has the widest wingspan, the greatest take-off weight and carries the most people of any passenger airliner ever made. No wonder it gets the kind of widespread recognition from members of the public as the Boeing 747 or Concorde.
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