Airbus A380

A pioneering marvel of the skies, it's packed with the cutting-edge technology.19th century rocket, An ancient Mongol Bow, The soaring genius of an eagle, The bicycle pump. Reveal the engineering connections behind the biggest airliner the world has ever seen.
Airbus A380-Engineering Connections.

If these wings were built to a conventional design, they'd need to be even larger and A380
wouldn't fit into the most of the world's airports.

Well basically the key thing to a wing is the cross-sectional shape . The wing is able to make the flow go a lot faster on the top than its goes on the bottom. As a result, the air above the wing is at lower pressure than normal, so the higher pressure underneath the wing pushes upwards, creating the lift for the whole aircraft.

Wingtip Vortex.
The airflow at the wing tip looks completely different, instead of a clean steady flow. High pressure air from underneath the wing is leaking around.

Install the winglet. No vortex. Basically, it's a barrier that stops the air getting around.

Bald Eagle. Take a look at the Wing Tip.
The Airbus designers found a brilliant solution by drawing inspiration from the animal kingdom.
He is a scavenger by nature and his lifestyle gives him a very similar problem to A380.
To soar high above the plain in search of the food, he need a thermal. A rising column of warm air around meters wide, so his wings can't be too long. otherwise his turning circle will take his outside the thermal. For the maximum lift, and minimum length. Oxford University zool gist Graham Taylor will show his wing how it works. This is the key to get rid of the wingtip vortex for highly-efficient flight. Those wingtip feathers are curled up the whole way through that it's turning around. Eagle uses his wingtip feathers create a Winglet.

Chicken Gun
Simulate the bird hit the fuselage of the airplane.

Set the chicken gun to fire a typical A380 take-off speed. 180 mph collision. Which will survive the chicken or aluminium ??

As the bow is drawn, the outside stretches, so that it is longer than before. But inside squeezes, making it shorter than before. So the bow has to handle two very different forces at the same time.

With a short bow, the bending is much greater, and the wood isn't strong enough. Mongols came up with the brilliant idea. Two different forces, use two different materials.

Buffalo Horn.

Sinew.

The combined properties of horn and sinew make for one idea weapon. The sinew placed on the outside of the bow. The horn placed on the inside of the bow. The bow can handle squeezing and stretching in the same time. So, you can get a very short bow and the same drawing. This is not only the weapon, but also a great concept. The composite.

Stiffness but with heavy impact it will be broken. Glass It's a brittle material, so it was deformed, cracks just propagated. The sudden impact made the cracks ripple  through the whole sheet.
It's actually riddled with microscopic cracks.

The upper exits stand nearly 8 meters off the ground. If there is emergency, the passengers have the long way to go to escape and survive. To satisfy international regulation, all 853 passengers must evacuate using only half of the airplane's 16 exits in 90 seconds.

Evacuation Slide.
Regulation requires the evacuation slide needed to be inflated within 6 seconds
so that the first passenger to arrive the door didn't block the exit.

Aspirator. Bernoulli's principle.

As the funnel gets narrower, the rocket gas moving through it speeds up caused the pressure to drop. Carburetor.

Bicycle Pimp
The landing gear uses the same principle of the bicycle pump. It may be bizarre. You can make the shock absorber by using the bicycle pump.