2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16
The competitive spirit will never leave humanity. In any area of life, people are trying to surpass previous achievements, to become the first, to win a pedestal. The aircraft industry is no exception. The title of "the largest aircraft in the world" is one of those goals that has been driven by more than one aircraft manufacturer. Today, this place of honor among passenger liners is occupied by the development of European aircraft manufacturers - Airbus A380.
Its development took more than 10 years, but the work of aircraft designers was not in vain, the largest aircraft is also one of the most economical, fuel consumption is 3 liters per 100 km per passenger. This he owes to his small specific gravity due to the use of composite materials in construction. The proportion of carbon fiber in the A380 is 40%, wings and fuselage are made of it.
The largest aircraft in the world used for passenger transportation, the dimensions are impressive: the length of the aircraft is 73 m, the height is 24 m, the wingspan of the giant is 79.8 m. The liner consists of two decks. The lower one is for economy passengers.class, upper - for traveling business and first class. The crew of the vessel is 27 people for a seven-hour flight and 30 people for a 14-hour flight.
Because of the gigantic size, only very large airports in the world can accept the Airbus A380, and in our country there are only two - Domodedovo and Novosibirsk Tolmachevo. The range of a non-stop flight is 15.2 thousand km. At one time, the largest passenger aircraft can carry from 525 to 853 passengers, depending on the comfort of their placement in the cabin. And in terms of comfort, it has done a lot. The liner has two bars, 15 toilet rooms, two shower cabins for first-class passengers. Armchairs can be transformed into horizontal beds, they provide the possibility of massage. In addition, in all places the largest aircraft in the world can offer a refrigerator for drinks, a multimedia system with a 17 screen, access to satellite communications. To view the surrounding space, any passenger can get on the screen a picture broadcast from external video cameras mounted on the largest aircraft in the world.
The Airbus A380 made its first flight in 2005, and in January 2006 the liner made a transatlantic flight. The commercial use of this aircraft began in October 2007 after it passed a set of acceptance tests. In order to reimburse all the funds spent since 1994 on the development of the liner, the aircraft manufacturer - the Airbus concernS. A. S. - it will be necessary to sell at least 420 aircraft. True, as some experts estimate, the number of airliners sold in order to recoup the spent 12 billion euros should be more.
In addition to the main modification of the A380-800, plowing the airspace today, it is planned to release 5 more modifications of the airliner: A380-900 79.4 m long (to be presented to the world in 2015); A380-1000, which will be the longest aircraft (87 m) and will be able to carry more than 1000 passengers at the same time (A380-800F - cargo modification); A380-800ER - extended range aircraft; A380-700 - short version (67.9 m).
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