Wow: Etihad A380 Formation Flying Video

By: Ben Schlappig

Updated: December 10, 2021
Published: November 30, 2015

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It’s rare to see a formation flying video of commercial planes. While it’s common for military planes, personally my love of aviation is centered heavily around commercial planes. Over the past few years we’ve seen some pretty incredible formation flying videos with commercial aircraft.

Like this A350 formation flying video from last year:

Or this Emirates A380 doing formation flying with Jetman Dubai:

Well, it seems Etihad may have gotten a bit jealous of Emirates’ formation flying routine, as they did their own A380 formation flying to celebrate the Grand Prix and UAE National Day. It was done in conjunction with Al Fursan, the UAE National Aerobatic team.

Here’s the incredible footage:

Amazing!

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Mr_Tudball New Member

December 1, 2015, 12:28 pm

On the subject of aviation videos, there is a new four part series from Nine Network in Australia about QF, titled Ready for Takeoff. (It's available on YouTube.) Part 2 is my favorite. It has a nice feature about the 80 year old gentleman who recently completed his 1,000th flight on QF. I hope I still have his passion for commercial flight when I'm in my 80s!

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John Guest

December 1, 2015, 4:28 am

Impressive video. Aegean did the same thing this year with one of their A320s and the Saudi Hawks for an airshow in Athens. They have also flown with a Dash 8 and the HAF Demo Team F-16. Truly impressive footage! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NerEH4pp9jU https://www.facebook.com/aegeanairlines/videos/10154403986478782/

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Stvr Guest

November 30, 2015, 6:03 pm

Good god a tax on carbon emissions can't come soon enough

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Return New Member

November 30, 2015, 6:00 pm

A380s create a ton of wake turbulence - especially where they are flying low, slow and clean (flaps up etc.) Hard to judge speed in this video, but this A380 would at least have been going low over the F1 track. The wake turbulence spreads out from the wingtips down and outwards, so the fighter jets only had a small envelope to work within.

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Red Guest

November 30, 2015, 4:29 pm

So, is this why they downgauged one of the normal LHR-AUH A380 frequencies to a 777 for a few weeks? I'd be pretty upset if I had booked the First Apartment and lost it because they wanted the plane for this stunt.

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