BREAKING NEWS is that the prototype Airbus A380, powered by four Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines, F”WWOW, took to the air 1029 local time Wednesday 27 April. It was jointly captained by Claude Lelaie, Senior Vice President of Airbus” Flight Division and Chief Test Pilot and Vice President Jacques Rosay. The other crew members were Fernando Alonso, Vice President Flight Division, Flight Test Engineering, who leads a team of two other flight test engineers Jacky Joye and Manfred Birnfeld, and test flight engineer G”rard Desbois. http://www.airbus.com