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EGTS is an electric taxiing system enabling an aircraft to taxi independently of its main engines or tug. [2]Each of the two main landing gear inboard wheels is driven by an electric motor powered by the auxiliary power unit (APU) generator, allowing the aircraft to push back from the gate without an airport tug and to taxi without the use of the main engines.
On 29 March 2015, Air Canada Flight 624, an Airbus A320-211 registered as C-FTJP, touched down short of the runway while landing at Halifax Stanfield International Airport in low visibility and heavy snow, colliding with a power pole and an antenna array, cutting power to the airport and causing the landing gear to separate from the aircraft ...
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 ...
Wright Electric built a two-seat proof-of-concept with 272 kg (600 lb) of batteries, and believes that batteries can be scaled up with substantially lighter new battery chemistries: a 291 nautical mile (540 km) range would suffice for 20% of Easyjet passengers. [6] Wright Electric plans to develop a 10-seater and eventually an at least 120 ...
EasyJet Flight 6074 was a scheduled flight on 15 September 2006 from Alicante, Spain to Bristol, United Kingdom on an Airbus A319-111. The flight suffered severe electrical failures during its flight and, as a result, it nearly collided with an American Airlines Boeing 777. The pilots continued their flight to Bristol and executed a successful ...
Airline A318 A319 A320 A320neo A321 A321neo Total Aero Flight — — 4 — 2 — 6: Aero Lloyd — — 15 — 11 — 26: Aerro Direkt — — — — 1 — 1
The first derivative of the A320 was the Airbus A321, also known as the Stretched A320, A320-500 and A325. [9] [25] Its launch came on 24 November 1988 after commitments for 183 aircraft from 10 customers were secured. [9] [26] The aircraft was to be a minimally changed derivative, apart from minor wing modifications and the fuselage stretch ...
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.