EAA Airventure à Oshkosh

The [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], the worlds largest commercial aircraft, touched down at Wittman Regional Airport for the first time EAA's AirVenture in Oshkosh, WI.
MSN004 completed the 127 km (69 nm) flight to Oshkosh at 1515 CDT (2015 GMT) after a seven-minute flying display for the assembled crowd that showed off the aircraft's envelope protection and slow speed handling qualities.
The landing on runway 36, which is 2438m (8,000 ft) long, was made significantly more challenging as there is only one taxiway able to accommodate the A380 1676m (5,500 ft) down the runway.
Adding to the difficulty of the landing was a perpendicular 14-knot crosswind gusting to 23 knots. The A380, MSN004, powered by Engine Alliance [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] engines crabbed significantly on final approach to runway 36.
After landing, Whitman Airport brought in a special sized tug from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York to accommodate the superjumbo.
[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] CEO Tom Enders was on hand to welcome the arrival of the superjumbo into Oshkosh along with other company executives.
MSN004 will spend Tuesday through Thursday on static display on the ramp which is one foot wider than the 79.8m (262-ft) wingspan of the A380.

.......Trust officials warned last week that there was an "unresolved issue" with XH558's port main landing gear "and its approval to perform further flights". They cautioned that the aircraft could be withdrawn from planned show appearances over the weekend.

But following an inspection process supported by parties including Kearsley Airways, Vulcan engineering authority [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] and the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], the aircraft was on 7 August granted an operating extension "sufficient to carry through the rest of the [current display] programme".....