I have a super nice film here : How to build a A-380 in seven minutes! The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)
You owe it to yourself to visit the Airbus assembly halls in Toulouse. They have a "portes ouvertes" day. The size of these halls is such that from high up in the public area you just see motionless monsters, hardly any human activity, just here and there ant-like creatures going about their business. Quite impressive.
Makes one proud to be an European...
The A380 flew more than hundred (or is it already hundreds?) of test-flights, so that could long have included MTOW flights. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.