Airbus A380: Inside the World's Biggest Jet - by Bill Sweetman
The world's biggest airliner also has the smartest cockpit, with screens that show more and make it easier to fly.
The four massive 70,000-pound-thrust high-bypass turbofan jet engines driving the A380 will actually be quieter than the engines on many smaller planes. That's because high-bypass engines employ carefully sculpted blades and wider fans (116 inches in the A380's Rolls Royce model) to acceleratE more air past the engine core and out the rear, allowing the engines to operate more slowly and quietly without sacrificing thrust.
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