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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.   
      
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