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Directory: world airliners Hill II I Mill—^——• •!•• Flight International's annual World Airliner directory is published in two parts on consecutive weeks. This week's Part 1 comprises airliners with more than 100 seats. Part 2, published next week, comprises civil airliners/utility aircraft seating from 10-12 passengers to 100 passengers, or with equivalent cargo capacity (including members of families that seat slightly more than 100, ie, the Avro RJ1007RJ115). Two aircraft, the 737-600 and Airbus A318, appear in both editions of the directory as they straddle the regional and large aircraft markets. The aircraft data tables, compiled by Flight International's sister on-line news and information service Air Transport Intelligence from, where possible, infor mation supplied by the manufacturers, includes dimensions, operating weights, powerplants, operating performance and passenger accommodation. All data, and the performance measures in particular, are intended only as a guide and must be interpreted with care. They should not be used for opera tional purposes. Powerplant data includes engine manufacturer, type and variant with the nominal sea level/ISA static thrust or power of each (lb thrust or kW). Performance data includes maximum and normal cruise speeds in knots and where applicable Mach number under ISA conditions. Maximum operating altitude is also provided. Field lengths for take-off and landing are for a typical mission under sea level ISA conditions. Take-off field lengths include the dis tance required to accelerate the aircraft to flying speed, reject the take-off and stop within the runway length remaining. Design range with pax/payload is the typical mission data with stated passenger or cargo load, published by manu facturers. Option range(s) data is for higher MTOW(s). Accommodation Seating capacity is provided for typical one-, two- and three-class layouts as quoted by the manufacturer. In many cases, the one-class layout is also the exit limit. Sales and in service figures are sourced from manufacturers and the Airclaims CASE database (+44 (0) 20 8897 1066) and are correct to October 2003. Conversions Except for altitude, which is quoted in feet, (1,000ft = 305m), speed, which is quoted in knots (1 kt = 1.85km/h = 1.15mph), and jet engine thrust which is quoted in pounds (1 lb = 0.00445kN); metric measure is used as follows: 1 kW = 1.34hp (shp); 1 m = 3.28ft; 1 m2 = 10.76ft2; 1 m3 = 35.3ft3; 1 kg = 2.2lb; 1 litre = 0.264 US gal = 0.22 Imp gal; 1 km = 0.54nm. Some figures are rounded for ease of reading. Abbreviations APB Aviation Partners Boeing ARIA Aeroflot-Russian International Airlines BA British Airways BAe British Aerospace CAA UK Civil Aviation Authority CFMICFM International EA GE/P&W Engine Alliance EADS European Aeronautic Defence and Space EFIS electronic flight instrumentation system ETOPS extended-range twinjet operations FAA US Federal Aviation Administration FAR US Federal Aviation Regulation FCS flight control system FMS flight management system GE General Electric GECAS GE Capital Aviation Services GPS global positioning system IAE International Aero Engines IAI Israel Aircraft Industries ICAO International Civil Aviation Organisation ISA international standard atmosphere ILFC International Lease Finance JAA European Joint Aviation Authorities JAR European Joint Aviation Requirement LCD liquid crystal display Moll memorandum of under standing MTOW maximum take-off weight P&W Pratt & Whitney P&WC Pratt & Whitney Canada PTF passenger to freighter R-R Rolls-Royce STC supple mental type certificate TCAS traffic alert and collision avoidance system. AEROSPATIALE/BAC Airbus (Support) 1 Rond Point Maurice Bellonte, Blagnac Cedex F-31707, France Tel: +33 (61) 5 93 33 33 Fax: +33 (61) 5 93 37 92 Telex: 530526 FAIRBU www.airbus.com Concorde After 27 years, the supersonic airliner era has drawn to a close in 2003 following the decision by the two Concorde operators - Air France and British Airways - to phase out the 100-seater due to esca lating maintenance costs and reduced demand. The decision was announced jointly by the two air lines on 10 April, with Air France stopping revenue services on 31 May and BA on 24 October. BA attributed the decision to expected future Concorde maintenance costs well above earlier pro jections, with Concorde manufacturer/spares supplier Airbus forecasting that those costs over the next few years would be £40 million ($62 million) higher than airline projections. Engineering sources close to Air France say that a diversion incident in February was a key factor in the carrier's decision to stop operating Concorde as soon as possible, although the airline officially denied this. The diversion fol lowed a severe in-flight fuel feed leak, forcing the Paris-bound Air France aircraft to divert to Halifax, Canada, while en route from New York. The retirement announcement sparked off a war of words between BA and Virgin Atlantic's chairman Sir Richard Branson, who has been pushing for BA to sell him part of the fleet for continued service. However this effort was scuppered by BA's unwill- ingless to sell and Airbus's lack of enthusiasm to AEROSPATIALE/BAC CONCORDE Length (m) Wingspan (m) Height (m) Wing area (m2) Cabin width (m) Max take-off weight (kg) Max landing weight (kg) Operating empty weight (kg) Max zero fuel weight (kg) Max payload (kg) Powerplant 4x 62.1 25.56 11.4 358.25 2.87 185,070 111,130 78,700 92,080 11,340 38,000lb R-R/Snecma Olympus 593 Standard fuel capacity (I) Normal operating speed (kt) Normal operating speed (Mach) Max cruise speed (kt) Max cruising altitude (ft) Take-off field length (m) (sea Landing field length (m) (sea Accommodation (typical) Design range with pax level/ISA) level/ISA) 117,020 430 2 1,176 62,000 2,900 2,150 100 6,200km/100 provide continued support. The Air France Concorde era finally ended on 27 June, with the last example landing at Toulouse Blagnac airport on delivery to Airbus to form the centrepiece of a new museum. Other recipients of Air France aircraft included the Paris-based Musee de I'Air et de I'Espace; Technick Museum Speyer, Sinsheim, Germany; and the Washington DC-based National Air and Space Museum. BA operated its last Concorde transatlantic services on 24 October. The ferry flights of its five air worthy aircraft to final resting places at museums in the Barbados, the UK, and the USA, will be undertaken in the coming weeks. One of the two grounded aircraft is expected to go on display at London Heathrow. Aerospatiale (now EADS) and British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) (now BAE Systems) jointly developed the Mach 2 airliner, which made its first flight from Toulouse in France in March 1969. Air France and BA put the aircraft into service on 21 January 1976. Services were temporarily halted in August 2000 after the crash of an Air France Concorde near Paris Charles de Gaulle on 25 July. The crash inves tigation determined the disaster was caused by a complex chain of events which started with a single tyre failure. A modification programme was devel oped - the core of which involved the installation of Kevlar liners in the fuel tanks. The first modified air craft returned to the skies commercially on 7 November, 2001. Before the retirement, a BA-led life-extension programme under way since the early 1990s would have allowed the aircraft to remain in service until around 2010-11. A further extension to allow the fleet to fly until 2015 had been considered. Production The aircraft were assembled on dual production lines in Filton and Toulouse. Of the 20 Concordes built, four were prototype/pre-production models and 16 were production examples, 14 of which were delivered to the two airlines. 1 Rond Point Maurice Bellonte, Blagnac Cedex F-31707, France Tel: +33 (61) 5 93 33 33 Fax: +33 (61) 5 93 37 92 Telex: 530526 FAIRBU www.airbus.com 48 21-27 OCTOBER 2003 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL www.flightinternational.com
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