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By the mid-1960s, several European aircraft manufacturers had drawn up competitive designs, but were aware of the risks of such a project. For example, in 1959 Hawker Siddeley had advertised an "Airbus" version of the Armstrong Whitworth AW.660 Argosy, [8] which would "be able to lift as many as 126 passengers on ultra short routes at a direct operating cost of 2d. per seat mile".
Airbus SE (/ ˈ ɛər b ʌ s / AIR-buss; French: ⓘ; German: [ˈɛːɐ̯bʊs] ⓘ; Spanish:) is a European [8] aerospace corporation. The company's primary business is the design and manufacturing of commercial aircraft but it also has separate defence and space and helicopter divisions.
The aircraft was the smallest in Airbus's product range, and was developed coincidentally at the same time as the largest commercial aircraft in history, the Airbus A380. First called A319M5 in as early as March 1995, it was shorter by 0.79-metre (2 ft 7 in) ahead of the wing and 1.6 metres (5 ft 3 in) behind. [6]
The aircraft stopped in the grass out of the runway but was seriously damaged and was written off. 34 passengers suffered minor injuries. [15] On 24 May 2013, British Airways Flight 762, an Airbus A319-131 registered as G-EUOE, returned to London Heathrow Airport after fan cowl doors detached from both engines shortly after take off. During the ...
The Airbus A321 is a member of the Airbus A320 family of short to medium range, narrow-body, commercial passenger twin engine jet airliners; [b] it carries 185 to 236 passengers. It has a stretched fuselage which was the first derivative of the baseline A320 and entered service in 1994, about six years after the original A320.
Icelandair has received its first-ever Airbus aircraft, breaking from its all-Boeing fleet for the first time in its nearly 90-year history. The new A321neoLR planes, which can travel up to nine ...
The Airbus A340 is a twin-aisle passenger airliner that was the first long-range Airbus, [67] powered by four turbofan jet engines. [68] It was developed with technology from earlier Airbus aircraft and their features, like the A320 glass cockpit; it shares many components with the A330, notably identical fly-by-wire control systems and similar ...
The Airbus A330 is a wide-body aircraft developed and produced by Airbus. Airbus began developing larger A300 derivatives in the mid-1970s, giving rise to the A330 twinjet as well as the Airbus A340 quadjet , and launched both designs along with their first orders in June 1987.