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The A321neo (neo being an acronym for "new engine option") is developed from the Airbus A321 and Airbus A320neo family. It is the longest stretched fuselage of Airbus's A320 series , and the newest version of the A321, with the original A321ceo entering service in 1994 with Lufthansa . [ 2 ]
The Airbus A320neo family is an incremental development of the A320 family of narrow-body airliners produced by Airbus.The A320neo family (neo being Greek for "new", as well as an acronym for "new engine option") is based on the enhanced variant of the previous generation A319, A320, and A321, which was then retrospectively renamed the A320ceo family (ceo being an acronym for "current engine ...
The first flight test on one of its intended production airframes, the Bombardier CSeries (Airbus A220), was on September 16, 2013. [ 19 ] The A320 engine, the PW1100G, had made its first static engine test run on November 1, 2012, [ 20 ] and was first tested on the 747SP on May 15, 2013. [ 21 ]
Since January 2014, following the merger of US Airways with American Airlines, all US Airways aircraft, except for the heritage A319s and A321 noted below, were painted in American's livery. The first jet to re-enter revenue service was an Airbus A319, tail number N700UW, which previously sported a Star Alliance branding.
The aircraft liveries and country, logo and airlines are used to provide a distinctive branding for corporates to support commercial gains. Often, symbols of national identity are also integrated to get accepted in an international market. [1] Liveries and logos are listed alphabetically by type of symbolism.
The following table shows total firm orders of A320neo family aircraft by customer and variant as of December 2021. [1] In the engine columns, the boxes filled in with a * signify that the airline has ordered all their A320neo jets with that particular engine.
The Airbus A330neo ("neo" for "New Engine Option") is a wide-body airliner developed by Airbus from the original Airbus A330 (now A330ceo – "Current Engine Option"). [4] A new version with modern engines comparable with those developed for the Boeing 787 was called for by operators of the A330ceo.
In aircraft livery design, a "hockey stick" means a continuation of the cheatline which is rotated through an angle so as to sweep upwards over the tail fin. Among the first hockey stick liveries were the Eastern Airlines' 1964 jet livery and Alitalia's 1970 livery. Hockey stick aircraft liveries remained in fashion until the late 1970s/early ...