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On Sat 18-Oct-2025 11:46p, Aviation Hq@2:292/854.0 said to Rug Rat:
AH>  
AH> A valid question could be ... if the 747-8 can be converted to a
AH> freighter, why couldn't all these parked A380s ... ?
AH>  
AH>  \%/@rd

Aganin, not pinking on you, but the question about an A380 conversion has been
asked, and covered adnauseum. 

The B747 was actually designed from the ground up to be converted into a
freighter.  Boeing thought with the indtroduction of SST (Super Sonic
Transport) that the future of subsonic transportation was limmited.  When Juan
Tripp approached Mr. Boeing to build the 747, Boeing figured they would sell a
few frames to Pan Am, then contiue selling the frames as Frieghters, and when
the originally sold Pax frames became available, convert and sell those as
well.

While airbus did initially offer a Freighter version, they ran into a problem
of underengineering the floor of the second story, so it could not be used to
carry freight.  The structur could also not support the fuse without the
flooring (With the additional problem of there would be no bennifit for the
volume of a single floor A380 without a nose loading cargo door.)..

The cost to retrofit was deemed to be prohibitively expensive for either a
dedicated freighter or conversion.

Heck the F could not even save the 747-8 program, and the potential of the
777X-F was the final nail in the coffin.

Rug Rat (Brent Hendricks)
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