Airbus A380 has landed in Heathrow

I wouldn't normally characterise myself as being a plane spotter but when I heard on the news that the new Airbus A380 was going to land in Heathrow's terminal 3 to check the feasibility for landing and handling the plane, I had to go up to the 4th floor to assess the monster.
After flying from Berlin via France (passing over the factory) it landed at exactly 13.20 BST

The plane is huge when compared to the other planes that landed before.
Even when the plane had landed, it was still possible to follow the movement of the tail and thus determine where the landing strip is. It kind of looked like a sharks tale moving across behind the buildings in the foreground.

At present 16 airlines have signed contracts for purchase of the planes. Each can be build within a couple of days.

Singapore Airlines will be the first to put it into route traffic between London and Singapore.