How often do you travel with planes? How are they constructed? And what is inside of them?
Have you ever thought about these questions? Airbus plant in Hamburg offers exciting insights into the final aircraft assembly process! There you may also find answers to all of your numerous questions about aircraft production as well as gain some knowledge about Airbus products and see real-sized Beluga!
Airbus Humburg Production Plant
Now I will just tell you several interesting things about Airbus:
- Company’s production facilities are mainly located in four European countries, which are: France, Germany, United Kingdom and Spain; the final assembly is located in France, Germany and Spain depending on the aircraft model;
- Final assembly production is held manually (by peoples’ hands not by robots) to ensure the absence of errors; assembling of the aircraft tail part is the final step in the whole assembling process;
- The initial color of aircraft fuselage is green; it gets its final color (white, pink or combination of colors) at the painting shop;
- Airbus A380 is so enormous that Airbus A320 may stand under its wing;
- A380’s price is about $432 mio
- The diameter of A380’s engine is the same as the diameter of A320’s fuselage
- If A380 had only economy class, it would have 853 seats for passengers;
- If you could get all the wiring out of the A380 and put it straight on the road, it will be approximately 1000 km
- Airbus A300-600ST (Super Transported) is called Beluga
- Beluga is an aircraft for carrying aircraft parts (and even aircraft fuselages);
- Beluga is also used for the transportation of oversized cargo such as large volume loads for NASA’s space program;
- There are only five Beluga aircrafts in the world, so they are exclusive!
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