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 ...ECHNOLOGY
Airbus plans adaptive A330/A340 wing
TOULOUSE
Variable camber will enable
use of the same wing for both
the twin-engined, 5,000
n.m.-range A330 and the four-
engined, 7,000 n.m.-range
A340 airliners despite their
differe...
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 ...rbus. Spoilers and ailerons will
work together on landing to give lift
dumping across virtually the full span.
The increased braking efficiency will
allow thrust reversing to be omitted from
the A340's outboard engines, Airbus
believes.
Variable camber will enable Airbus to
use the same wing for both the A330 and
A340 despite their different flight regimes,
while contributing a 3 per cen...
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 ...he new long-rangers
The Airbus alternative
Maximum commonality is the Airbus aim: commonality between the A330 and the A340 and common
ality with other Airbus products.
"We are really launching two versions of
the same aircraft," says Stuart Iddles,
Airbus Industrie senior vice-president
commercial. "We will aim ...
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 ...rld Airliners
The A340 family includes the baseline CFM56-powered -300 (above) and the Trent-powered -500/600
A340
The four-engined A340 was launched in parallel
with the A330 in June 1987. Two CFM56-5C-
powered ver...
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 ...IRCRAFT DEVELOPMENT
Testing times
The A340-600 (top) will enter set-vice by mid-2002, with the -SOO (bottom) following later that year
Airbus is performing an
unprecedented amount
of pre-entry-into-
service systems
testing for its A34...
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 ...340 DESCRIBED
Lufthansa will redeye the first A340 in January i
companion, has never been tried before
"...because the market never demanded it",
says Pierson.
He might add that it took four yea...
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 ...340 DESCRIBED
MONITORING, GROWING AND BUILDING THE A340
Derived from the central flight data system of the A320, and with considerably more power, the A340 central maintenance system
(CMS) will mo...
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 ...340 DESCRIBED
• post-flight reports, indicating warnings,
cautions and status messages displayed on
the electronic centralised aircraft monitor
(ECAM) during the last flight leg (Class 1
and 2 f...
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 ...irectory: world airliners
AIRBUS A340
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Length(m)
Wingspan (m)
Height (m)
Wing area (m2)
Cabin width (m)
Max take-off weight (kg)
MTOW option 1
MTOW option 2
Max landing weight (kg)
MLW option 1
MLW option 2
O...
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 ...33U/A340
dropped, while the design of the TA9 and TA11
was being refined with, for example, the new
flightdeckof die A320 being adopted, including
its sidesticks in place of the control columns, plus ...
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 ...5 FLYING YEARS
Air Canada is a major Airbus customer, and has
launch commitments for both the A 340-500 and
-600. Final assembly (right) oftheA330/A340 is
undertaken by Aerospatiale in Toulouse
The first A340, a -300, had its first flight on 25
October, 1991. JAA certification was awarded
on 22 December, 1992 and Lufthansa put the
aircraft ...
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 ...IRTRANSPORT
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A340-500/600 changes compared to A340-300
A340-300
1m fin tip
extension
and10%
chord extension
A340-600
Three frame (1.6m)
wing box extension/
fuselage plug
Tapered
wing insert
1.6m wingti...
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 ...340 DESCRIBED
COMMON WING HOLDS
KEYTOA330/A340 T
he A340 wing is virtually identical
to that of the A330. Its design
represents a rare, if not unique,
achievement among commercial
jet airliners...
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 ...he pleasant anticipation of a trip to Caracas aboard one of Lufthansa's A340 route-proving flights was rudely shattered with
the news that there had been a coup in
the Venezuelan capital. It had to be
Orlando, Florida instead — hardly a
match for the palm-fringed isla...
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 ...e prospect of
losing its only customer to date, EVA
Airways, which has re-opened the bidding
for its ultra-long-haul requirement.
Avoiding ETOPS
"Range is only one part of the attraction of
the A340-500," says Leahy. "Independent
surveys consistently show that Asian trav
ellers prefer to fly in four-engine aircraft."
He says operators can also avoid "the com
plexities and uncertainties o...
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 ...IR TRANSPORT
FLIGHT-TESTS MAX KINGSLEY-JONES / TOULOUSE
A340-600 doses on certification
Airbus expects approval for new long-range model in May but has not yet finalised route proving plans with customers
Uncertainty over deliveries mars an otherwise smo...
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 ...kg.
Much effort has been made in the pro
duction of the new family to reduce the
empty weight with, for example, titanium
used in the landing gear and engine
mounting pylons. However, the early
A340-500/600S have weighed in heavier
than the target, with the deficit believed to
be around 850kg. This is largely thought to
be associated with the aircraft's wing.
Weight savings
"We'll be ba...
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 ...the cabin will be "easily
the lowest in our fleet, and in some cases
half that of other modern aircraft".
Another air-conditioning innovation,
which was requested by Lufthansa and
applied to all A340s, has been to split the
system into six temperature-independent
sections lengthwise within the cabin. This
should end the suffering of those who
freeze when the system adjusts automati
cally...
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 ...irms that
the European consortium has
"embarked on studies" of a 600-
to 800-seat, 13,000km
(7,000nm)-range competitor to
the Boeing 747.
Such an aircraft, he says,
could be developed from the
A340, but it would enter the
market "...certainly not before
the end of the century...and
then only if the programme
makes commercial sense".
Pierson says that direct oper
ating costs of the air...
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 ...ECHNICAL: SIMULATION
T-CSF scores A330/A340 first
BY GILBERT SEDBON
IN PARIS
Thomson-CSF, working with Aerospatiale, is to supply
Airbus Industrie with simulators
for its A330 and A340 airliners.
The contract covers four A330/
A340 ...
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