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A more tangible benefit is the increased ability to exit the runway at a specified turnoff point. The European Aviation Safety Agency certified the system, initially for use on the Airbus A380, in 2009. [1] The second Airbus product to incorporate BTV will be the Airbus A320 family, which is much more widely used around the world than the A380 ...
The aircraft involved was an Airbus A380-842, [12] registration number VH-OQA, serial number 014. [ 2 ] [ 18 ] Having entered service in September 2008, it was the first A380 delivered to Qantas and had four Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines; [ 19 ] it was named Nancy-Bird Walton [ nb 1 ] in honour of an Australian aviation pioneer.
Airbus also offered, as an option, an improved maximum take-off weight, thus providing a better payload/range performance. Maximum take-off weight is increased by 4 t (8,800 lb), to 573 t (1,263,000 lb) and the range is extended by 100 nautical miles (190 km; 120 mi); this is achieved by reducing flight loads, partly from optimising the fly-by ...
Qantas Airways (QUBSF) suspended all flights of Airbus A380s after one of its planes was forced to make an emergency landing following engine failure. The A380 fleet will remain grounded "until we ...
Type MTOW [kg] MLW [tonnes] TOR [m] LR [m] ICAO category FAA category; Antonov An-225: 640,000: 591.7: 3,500: Super: Super Scaled Composites Model 351 Stratolaunch
An Airbus A340-300 from Kuwait Airways. Note the usage of an isolated 2-wheel unit in the central landing gear (similar to the MD-11) A340-500/600: 14 wheels [1x2]+[3x4] Airbus A340-600 of Virgin Atlantic: A350-1000: 14 wheels [1x2]+[2x6] Airbus A350-1000 of Qatar Airways: A380: 22 wheels [1x2]+[2x4+2x6] Airbus A380 in Airbus markings
There are 251 firm orders by 14 customers for the passenger version of the Airbus A380-800, all of which have been delivered as of December 2021. [1] There were originally also 27 orders for the freighter version, the A380F, but when this programme was frozen following production delays, 20 A380F orders were cancelled and the remaining seven ...
The Airbus 320, carrying 105 passengers and five crew members, landed safely and everyone disembarked at a gate, according to United and the Federal Aviation Administration.