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The A380 is 24.1 metres high - as high as an eight-storey house, 5 giraffes or 14 people standing on top of one another.

The A380 has space for up to 853 passengers, as many as live in the Gallmertsgarten local authority in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

The A380 contains 530 kilometres of cabling, the distance from Berlin to Wuppertal.

The A380 has a floorspace of 550 square metres on the main and the upper decks, approximately as much as 10 squash courts.

The A380 is 73 metres in length, longer than two adult blue whales laid end to end.

The A380 has a take-off weight of 560 tonnes, equivalent to 112 adult African elephants, the largest land mammals on earth.

An A380, when fully laden and fuelled, weighs as much as 485 Volkswagen Golf cars. That weight is borne by 20 tyred wheels, compared with 1,940 for the cars.

The A380 has a price tag of 225 million Euros, as much as 1,000 terraced houses worth 225,000 Euros.

Each wing of the A380 has an area of 845 square metres, enough standing room for 2,800 people, or parking space for 70 cars.

The take-off thrust of the A380 is equivalent to the power of 2,500 medium-sized limousines.

The A380 has a volume of 1,570 cubic metres, as much space as could be taken up by 4.5 million tennis balls or 35 million table tennis balls.

The A380 has a fuel capacity of 310,400 litres of kerosene, equivalent to 940,606 cola cans or 1,552,000 Singapore Sling cocktails.