A bird, a plane? No, it’s a superplane: Heathrow hails arrival of world giant

THE world’s largest passenger plane, the 555-seater Airbus A380 superjumbo, took to the skies above London yesterday.

With test pilot Ed Strongman at the controls, the double-decker aircraft drew to a halt outside the new pier at Heathrow Airport.

Flying in from the Berlin Air Show, the plane had taken a deliberate detour so it could fly over two Airbus British plants — Broughton in north Wales, where the plane’s wings are made, and Filton in Bristol.