To Paris on the A380....

The highlight of our trip from our cottage near Brighton to Paris was a ride in the new A380 Airbus.

The A380 is a double-decker that carries almost 600 people including crew. It is a lot fatter than a jumbo to accommodate the double-decker configuration. Its gigantic, its quiet and its fast.

The interior is similar to a normal Jumbo with 10 seats across.

The best feature is that it has tail-cam, nose-cam and belly-cam. You can select each camera to watch the flight as you like on your personal seat back audio-visual display. Amazingly scary and enthralling at the same time.

Here is a shot from tail-cam on approach to CDG Paris airport.