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• Unlike Airbus, Boeing lets aviator override fly-by-wire technology .
• MIAMI -- As the Airbus A320 jetliner descended through 3,000 feet on its final approach to the airport, co-pilot Rudy Canto glanced off to the right and spotted a regional jetliner bearing down on the Airbus plane.
• Airbus, below, uses a "side-stick controller," a joystick to the pilot's left and the co-pilot's right. But the biggest difference is that the pilot can't override the computer on the Airbus plane. ...
• But one of seven flight-control computers on the A320 took over and the Airbus plane climbed sharply and turned away from the regional jet just in time to avoid a collision. ...
• The flight was actually a demonstration for a group of journalists earlier this month in one of the $12 million A320 flight simulators at the new Airbus Industrie training center in Miami.
• Airline passengers can't see it, but this is the most significant difference between Boeing and Airbus planes.
• But Airbus has taken a much different philosophical approach to using computers than its rival. ...
• On all Airbus planes other than the older A300 and A310, computers prevent the pilot from putting the plane into a climb of more than 30 degrees where it might lose lift and stall. ...
• John Lauber, former board member of the National Transportation Safety Board and now vice president of safety and technical affairs for Airbus, said good arguments can be made for either the Airbus or Boeing cockpit philosophy on soft or hard limits.
• Though fly-by-wire was used on jet fighters and on the supersonic Concorde, the first Airbus plane with the technology was the A320, which entered service in 1988. The same system is also used on the Airbus A330 and A340 widebody jets.
• Airbus also eliminated the wheel-and-control column, or yoke, that is used on all Boeing jets. Instead, Airbus pilots control the plane by moving a small, hand-held joystick off to the side. ...
• "The benefits are numerous," Canto said of the Airbus system. ...
• "It's like having power windows in your car," said Larry Rockliff, vice president of the Airbus training center in Miami who has served as an instructor for every model of Airbus plane. ...

• Threat on Airbus Aid .
• threat to revive a formal complaint at the World Trade Organization over EU government aid to aircraft-maker Airbus, saying the move was unnecessary. ...
• The decades-old dispute centers on government subsidies provided to aircraft giants Boeing and Airbus. ...
• Zoellick now serves as deputy secretary of state but continues to represent the United States in talks over Airbus. ...
• trade representative, said the United States may reinstate a formal complaint with the World Trade Organization over government aid to France-based Airbus. ...
• "Despite our best efforts it's clear that the (European Union) is unwilling to eliminate launch aid subsidies for Airbus," Mills said. ...
• Airbus concedes public aid reduces its financing costs but argues it does not constitute a subsidy since it is repaid to governments with interest as well as a share of future aircraft royalties. ...
• Chicago-based Boeing has long been frustrated that Airbus has continued to get government money to help it develop new planes such as the A380, even though it has become Boeing's commercial equal in recent years. Last year, Airbus delivered more planes than Boeing for the first time and it will do so again in 2005. ...

• Airbus A340-200.
• Airbus Industrie was formed in 1970 as a multinational effort between Germany, England and France to create a high-capicity twin-jet transport (this developed into the A300). Today Airbus Industrie has become the world's second largest manufacturer of civil airliners which seat over 100 passengers. In it's first 25 years Airbus has sold over 2,100 aircraft, with more than 1400 in service worldwide. The consortium is headquartered in southwest France near the city of Toulouse and owned by Europe's four leading aerospace companies (Aerospatiale of France, Daimler-Benz Aerospace Airbus of Germany, British Aerospace, and Casa of Spain). ...
• Talk about Airbus A340-200 in the Jet forum.
• Download Airbus A340-200 for Microsoft Flight Simulator.

• Airbus-Vermittlung gescheitert.
• Noch ist sie 2678 Meter lang, die Landebahn des Airbus-Werks auf Finkenwerder. ...
• Hamburg - Die Verhandlungen mit der Neuenfelder Kirchengemeinde sind gescheitert: Sie will ihr Grundstück nicht verkaufen, das für die Verlängerung der Airbus-Landebahn auf Finkenwerder benötigt wird. ... Senat und Airbus hatten dem Papier zugestimmt. ...
• In einer Woche muß sich der Senat gegenüber Airbus erklären, wie es weitergeht. ...
• Schuld sei der Airbus-Konzern, der "starr und stur gegenüber uns Hamburgern an der Verlängerung festgehalten" habe. Airbus habe keine Abstriche bei der Länge der Piste gemacht. Außerdem habe Airbus eine Arbeitsplatzgarantie verweigert. ...
• Airbus bezeichnete diese Vorwürfe als "unangemessen". "Ich bin enttäuscht, wenn behauptet wird, Airbus sei nicht bereit gewesen, sich zu bewegen", sagte Airbus-Chef Gerhard Puttfarcken. ...
• Der Airbus-Schock - und wie es dennoch weitergehen kann. ...
• Scheitert Airbus, dann verliert das ganze Land vom 20. ...

• The Airbus A300 first flew in October 1972. ...
• The Airbus A-310 is a downsized version of the A-300. ...
• The Airbus A-320 competed with the Boeing 737 and the McDonnell Douglas MD-80. ...
• The Airbus 330/340 could accommodate two or four engines. ...
• The Airbus A-380 is the world's largest airliner, accommodating up to 656 passengers. ...
• Airbus Industrie.
• During the 1970s, Europe's Airbus Industrie emerged to become the strongest rival of Boeing, the world's top commercial planebuilder. Though based in Europe, Airbus had its origins in the work of an American executive, Frank Kolk of American Airlines. ...
• Together they agreed to build such a plane, calling it the Airbus A-300.
• Ziegler also was a strong supporter of the proposed Airbus, and persuaded De Gaulle to give it increased backing as well.
• There were close links between the Concorde and Airbus programs, with many key people working on each in turn. For instance, Ziegler was De Gaulle's man who rescued Concorde; he then became president and chief executive officer of Airbus. His successor at Airbus, Bernard Lathiere, had also been a Concorde man. “I loved Concorde as a mistress and Airbus as a son,” Lathiere declared. ...
• To stir interest within the United States, Airbus leaders selected an American engine, built by General Electric. ...
• Airbus Industrie took shape formally late in 1970. ...

• Airbus Military.

• COMMERCE Airbus 2004 Deliveries Top Forecast.
• Airbus, which is owned by EADS and the UK's BAE Systems, said it expects to make 350 to 360 deliveries in 2005, a 10 percent rise over 2004. ...
• Airbus said today that it delivered 320 aircraft in 2004, up from 305 in 2003 and at the top end of the company's guidance of 305 deliveries "at best" in 2004.
• The figures mean that Airbus is keeping ahead of archrival Boeing (NYSE: BA) as the world's leading jet maker in 2004, with a 53 percent share of the cut-throat global market for large civil jetliners.
• 2 billion), Airbus said in a statement. ...
• "These results are very encouraging and confirm that the market is slowly recovering from the downturn of the first half of the decade," said Airbus Chief Executive Noel Forgeard.
• Looking forward, Airbus, which is owned by the European defense contractor EADS and the UK's BAE Systems, said it expects to make 350 to 360 deliveries in 2005, which would be a 10 percent rise over 2004.
• and Europe on this matter be overcome through constructive discussion rather than through legal recourse," Airbus said.
• EU, US Set Deadline for Airbus/Boeing Deal - Mandelson (11-Jan-05) .
• EU Demands Clarification on Boeing-Airbus .

• COMMERCE Airbus 2004 Deliveries Top Forecast.
• Airbus, which is owned by EADS and the UK's BAE Systems, said it expects to make 350 to 360 deliveries in 2005, a 10 percent rise over 2004. ...
• Airbus said today that it delivered 320 aircraft in 2004, up from 305 in 2003 and at the top end of the company's guidance of 305 deliveries "at best" in 2004.
• The figures mean that Airbus is keeping ahead of archrival Boeing (NYSE: BA) as the world's leading jet maker in 2004, with a 53 percent share of the cut-throat global market for large civil jetliners.
• 2 billion), Airbus said in a statement. ...
• "These results are very encouraging and confirm that the market is slowly recovering from the downturn of the first half of the decade," said Airbus Chief Executive Noel Forgeard.
• Looking forward, Airbus, which is owned by the European defense contractor EADS and the UK's BAE Systems, said it expects to make 350 to 360 deliveries in 2005, which would be a 10 percent rise over 2004.
• and Europe on this matter be overcome through constructive discussion rather than through legal recourse," Airbus said.
• EU, US Set Deadline for Airbus/Boeing Deal - Mandelson (11-Jan-05) .

• Airbus A340.
• Virgin Atlantic Airbus A340. ...
• The Airbus A340 is a long-range widebody commercial passenger airplane manufactured by Airbus. ...
• Airbus' new aircraft was launched in 1988 as a long-range complement to the short-range A320 and the medium-range A300. ...
• Airbus' engineers designed the A340 in parallel with the twin-engined A330: both aircraft share the same wing and similar fuselage structure, and borrow heavily from the advanced avionics developed for the A320.
• In 1997, Airbus launched two lengthened variants of the A340, the long-range -500 and high-capacity -600 series. ...
• List of Airbus A340 operators .
• Details on the Airbus family of aircraft (http://www. airbus. ...
• History and pictures of the Airbus A340-300 (http://www. ...
• net - Airbus A340-200 (http://www. ... net/aircraft/jet_aircraft/airbus/A340-200/) .
• Airbus A340 Production List (http://www. ... net/data/list/Airbus/A340/) .

•   Consider that Boeing's commercial airplane products are much older designs than the Airbus series and therefore that they are more expensive to manufacture.   Where Airbus would use a modern technique such as molded plastic, reinforced with carbon fiber or fiberglass (cheap; this is how my Diamond DA40 is built), Boeing would use a labor-intensive pre-WWII technique of bending or machining aluminum.   Airbus's lower costs give it the ability to undercut Boeing on prices. ...
• Imagine Boeing trying to sell a 747 against an Airbus A380. ...

• The Airbus A320 .
• More photos of Airbus A320.
• Perhaps the most important contributor to Airbus Industrie's success as an airliner manufacturer, the four member A320 family is a significant sales success and a technological trailblazer. ...
• Apart from a small weight saving, the advantage of Airbus' fly-by-wire is that as it is computer controlled, an inbuilt flight envelope protection makes it virtually impossible to exceed certain flight parameters such as G limits and the aircraft's maximum and minimum operating speeds and angle of attack limits. ...

• Airbus_Discuss · The Airbus Discussion Group .
• The Airbus-Discuss Group is for discussion of operational, technical and regulatory matters specific to the Airbus family of airplanes. ... Only pilots qualified on the Airbus, and other professionals directly involved with the Airbus are qualified for membership of the list. (ATC, mechanics, ground instructors, regulatory persons involved with the Airbus are all welcome). ...

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