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    • Year
      1906
      2018
    • Length
      37 m
      56 m
    • Height
      12 m
      19 m
    • Width
      1 m
      8 m
    • Diameter
      3 m
      9 m
    • Wing area
      175 m2
      263 m2
    • Wingspan (Beam)
      35 m
      53 m
    • Wing loading
      3 kg/m2
      829 kg/m2
    • Swept
      4 m
      10 m
    • Sweep
      25 deg
      68 deg
    • Aspect ratio
      1
      26
    • Disc area
      1 m2
      460 m2
    • Main rotor diameter
      1 m
      62 m
    • Rotor number
      1 qt
      8 qt
    • Blades per rotor
      4 qt
      5 qt
    • Disc loading
      17 kg/m2
      73 kg/m2
    • Tail rotor diameter
      0 m
      5 m
    • Empty weight
      64113 kg
      96171 kg
    • Max. takeoff weight (Gross weight)
      113579 kg
      170369 kg
    • Loaded weight
      5 kg
      242500 kg
    • Crew
      1 per.
      3 per.
    • Useful load
      26 kg
      90700 kg
    • Payload
      23 kg
      122470 kg
    • Capacity passengers
      1 per.
      400 per.
    • Hardpoints
      1 qt
      2576 qt
    • Ground Speed
      96 km/h
      1500 km/h
    • Max. Speed
      720 km/h
      1082 km/h
    • Сruise Speed
      680 km/h
      1020 km/h
    • Stall Speed
      40 km/h
      258 km/h
    • Landing Speed
      68 km/h
      270 km/h
    • Minimum control speed
      24 km/h
      113 km/h
    • Never exceed speed
      107 km/h
      1050 km/h
    • Fuel Capacity
      23 l
      320000 l
    • Fuel External
      142 l
      10025 l
    • Power/mass
      0 hp/kg
      23 hp/kg
    • Thrust/weight
      0 kN/kg
      3 kN/kg
    • Afterburning thrust
      29 kN/kg
      980 kN/kg
    • Total Power
      0 hp
      60000 hp
    • Thrust
      379 kN
      569 kN
    • Service ceiling
      10000 m
      15000 m
    • Static ceiling
      3 m
      5485 m
    • Range (Ferry range)
      5440 km
      8160 km
    • Range PTB (Ferry range)
      720 km
      10000 km
    • Сombat radius
      277 km
      7210 km
    • Endurance
      0 h
      150 h
    • Takeoff roll
      20 m
      3200 m
    • Landing roll
      20 m
      2570 m
    • Maximum glide ratio
      7
      43
    • Load factor from
      2 G
      9 G
    • Rate of climb
      1 m/min
      36000 m/min
    • Rate of sink
      36 m/min
      56 m/min
    • Time to altitude
      0 min
      105 min
    • Propellers
      1 qt
      8 qt
    • Prop diameter
      1 m
      6 m
    • Prop blade number
      1 qt
      8 qt
    • Guns
      1 qt
      18 qt
    • Bombs
      1 qt
      250 qt
    • Missiles
      1 qt
      24 qt
    • Rockets
      1 qt
      76 qt
    • Torpedoes
      1 qt
      4 qt
    • Bombs weight
      2 kg
      39000 kg
    • Rockets weight
      1 kg
      48 kg
    • Number built
      204 qt
      306 qt
    • Price
      41 USD
      750000000 USD

Airbus A310
TypeAircraft
Company

Airbus Group

Scheme

Monoplane

Low wing

Geometry
Length (m)
1.9
 
46.7
88.7
Height (m)
0.6
 
15.8
50.1
Wings
Wing area (m2)
1.1
 
219
925
Wingspan (Beam) (m)
0.1
 
43.9
95
Weights
Empty weight (kg)
8
 
80,142
276,800
72400 kg - 83100 kg depending on variat
Max. takeoff weight (Gross weight) (kg)
154
 
141,974
575,000
141974 kg - 164000 kg depending on variant
Capacity
Crew (per.)
1
 
2
112
Speeds
Max. Speed (km/h)
25
 
901
28,165
Сruise Speed (km/h)
52
 
850
3,087
Power
Thrust (kN)
1.5
 
474
1,914
2 powerplants 220-260 kN each depending on vatiant
Performance
Service ceiling (m)
0.6
 
12,500
161,544
Range (Ferry range) (km)
4
 
6,800
40,700
5550 km - 7330 km depending on variant
Stat
Number built (qt)
0
 
255
43,000
Introduction 1982
First flight 03.04.1982
After the first several years of Airbus A300 being in service it appeared that most operators didn’t have enough passengers to fill the large airliner or wanted a lower aircraft-mile cost that’s why the need for a smaller aircraft emerged. Airbus decided to make an appropriate derivative of A300.

The capacity of a new aircraft needed to be smaller, but that meant that the wings and undercarriage of A300 were oversized. That fact could cause unnecessary fuel spending as the aircraft had extra weight. Likely, that time British Aerospace, which could design new wings, decided to join Airbus Industrie and became a full part of A310 program.

After years of work in 1978 at Hanover Air Show, Airbus presented a new A310 model. It was a twin-engined wide-body jet airliner with typical passenger load of 195 in two-class or 245 at economy. The main differences from A300 included shorten fuselage, different wings made by British Aerospace, redesigned undercarriage with carbon brakes fitted as standard, integrated drive electrical generators, etc.

The two versions were planned: A310-100 and A310-200. The last one got more demand as its range was on 1900 km longer and MTOW was higher. After its presentation in March 1979 Swissair ordered 10 aircraft and right after her 10 more were ordered by Lufthansa.

The orders continued to come and by the time when A310-200 performed its first flight on April 3, 1982 there were orders placed for 181 aircraft. There were no orders for A310-100 that’s why the company decided to stop offering it and none of them were constructed.

In the 1990s the demand for A310 got low as any operator wanted more advanced A330 and in 2007 the Airbus announced it cancelled the production of A310 together with A300.

In total 255 aircraft were produced several of them are still in service at Fedex Express with 20 aircraft; Air Transat (9); Mahan Air (8) also there are several in Pakistan International Airlines; and SATA International.

The Airbus A310 at the beginning gained more demand than its predecessor A300 what showed that the company learnt from own mistakes. The aircraft weren’t the masterpieces but they gave a really good start for the Airbus letting them to go further with more ambitious projects as A320 and A330/A340 and made them a serious competitor for Boeing.

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