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Details of A380: the flying giant

A380, will be the greatest airliner developed with one length of 72 meters and a wing span of 79 meters; it will be able to transport 555 passengers dislocates to you on two plans. C$r-a.pieno.carico its weight will be of 560 tons and will have a 14.800 autonomy of Km. This new giant of the air increases of 1/3 the number of passengers regarding the 747 reducing the shipping charges of the 15 for hundreds for passenger.

Three plans will work on the entire length of the airplane, the two advanced ones will serve for the passengers and will be connect from one large-scale to you in the front part of the airplane and from an other smaller scale in the posterior part. The plan more low will be classified above all to cargo operations but it could even be used after center of transactions or for services of cure for the children.

A380 will not come constructed in an only place but in various plants of the Airbus scattered in several localities of Europe: the wings will be realized to Broughton (United Kingdom), the tailplanes to Real Puerto (in Spain), parts of the fuselage to Amburgo (Germany), the part centers them of the fuselage and the cockpit to st. Nazaire (France).

All the several members will be transported to Tolosa where they will be assembled. For this purpose they will come used ships and the gigantic airplane Beluga; some roads have been increased purposely. In order to diminish the weight they will come used material innovated like carbon fiber and plastic to you. The 60 for hundreds are constituted from aluminum, the 20 for hundreds titanium and steel, the 4 for hundreds Glare that is a new material constituted from a succession of layers of aluminum (0,3-0,5 milimeter) and glass fibers impregnated of resin; Glare has better a resistance to the corrosion and to the heat, for this reason it comes used in the construction of the panels for the fuselage, moreover resists to fessurazione 10-100 times more of the aluminum because the glass-reinforced plastic layers do not allow the propagation of the leaks.

A380 is conceived in order not to occupy more than 80 m2 that they are the dimensions demanded from the greater world-wide airports. The motors have various powers to second that the airplane come employ you for the service fleeting or the transport goodses: it is Rolls-Royce BMW Trent 900, is the future GP7200 constructed from "The Alliance", branch (office) of Américains Pratt& Whitney ET General Electric will come produced in the plant Rolls-Royce di Derby, in the English Midlands. A380 will come constructed in various models, version A380-800F, as an example, will transport 150 tons having an autonomy of 10.000 Km. The cost will be of 220 million dollars and is previewed the first flight for the end of 2004.

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