Modern "Airbus" - it's impeccable and reliable

Modern aircraft are becoming ever more firmly in our everyday lives, in the lives of ordinary citizens associated with aviation, for the most part only a summer flight to the place of annual vacation in a hot country near the tender sea. Ability to abandon the "package" tours and most plan your vacation now attracts not only fans of extreme pastime, but also many Internet users. Numerous resources for booking hotels, hotels, tickets for trains, ferries and airplanes give this occupation a bright part of adventurism, a saving flourish shimmering against the backdrop of the gray everyday routine.

Among the huge flow of information, future travelers will need the ability not only to compose a schedule of their route correctly, but also to understand what kind of vehicle ideally suits them, for example, the passenger aircraft "Airbus". It will be useful.

Longtime competitors

Historically, the world has developed so that the two major centers of modern aircraft construction have divided the Atlantic Ocean. You can draw many different parallels, but it is worth acknowledging the fact that the American company Boeing raised its flying machines in the air more than half a century earlier than the European manufacturer. For its part, Airbus understands this perfectly, and tries to compete in this market with innovative technical solutions.

The farthest shoulder of the flight without refueling for medium-haul aircraft, the lowest fuel consumption with the maximum take-off weight for flights to the short shoulder, the landing on a steep descent trajectory, and the most capacious at the moment in terms of the load-carrying capacity of an air heavyweight - all these records belong to the aircraft concern "Airbus". The airplane, which is less likely to be included in a summary of air accidents, is another significant argument when choosing flights by travelers. According to statistics in 2012, there were 58 accidents with an "American" against 22 - a "European".

Air bus

This is exactly how the company is transferred from the English language verbatim. Simple and understandable. The historical prototype of the brand was the fantastic project of the Aérobus flying machine, published in early 1900 in France. The name of the company in different countries is pronounced differently. In English Airbus sounds like "Airbus", in its historical homeland it is called "Airbus", and in our country, since the time of the Soviets, the simplified pronunciation of "Airbus" has taken root. This happened in 1990, when the International Commercial Agency of Civil Aviation of the USSR signed with the company "Airbus Industry" an agreement on the leasing of five aircraft. Up to this point, all airplanes in our country were called airbuses, such as, for example, Il-96.

Virtual life

Someone scolds them, who adores them. In the Internet, even there are quite a lot of user communities, giving preference to some specific brands. The motto of the fans of modern "Airbus": "If it's Boeing, I'm not going", which translates as "If it's Boeing, I do not fly." To this fans of the American aircraft industry they are opposed: "Airbus - not for us" ("Airbus" - not for us). Fans share their impressions of flights on their beloved brand airplane, upload photos of Airbus or Boeing to the network, discuss new models and further plans for aviation companies, plan meetings for joint spotting, usually near large airports. Such commonwealths unite people of different ages and professions, nationalities and religions. There are among them professional pilots working in operating airlines of Russia and other countries. It is they who bring jargon phraseology to the environment of the members of the forum - fans of aviation. For example, backstage names of famous brands: "Airbus" - it's "Watermelon", "Boeing" - "Bobik".

The genius of aircraft construction

Airbus was established in the early 1970s through the merger of several aircraft manufacturers into a huge European holding. The entire enterprise with its own headquarters in the suburb of Toulouse, the city of Blagnac, is led by Fabrice Bregeux. Formally, "Airbus" is a French-made aircraft, after all, the final assembly of a winged car takes place there, in France. However, most of its components (supporting structure, hull, avionics systems) are produced in other countries, and the final conveyor is delivered by freight trains or even by air, as in the case of Airbus A380. The global European concern operates production sites in countries such as Spain, Germany, France, the United Kingdom.

Perfect technique

If you look at the photo of "Airbus", then the gaze of the observer will open the complete perfection of the design. Smooth lines, the exact ratio of the fuselage volume to the wings according to the so-called standard of the golden section, the ideal proportions of turbines and mathematically accurate dimensions of the end winglets - all of this as a whole develops into a pleasant picture for the eye, as in the case of the reference "Mercedes" or "BMW" From the world of cars.

The technical characteristics of the aircraft are also at an altitude. Speed "Airbus" - one of the highest in the segment of subsonic passenger traffic. The brand's flagship, the wide-body A350, which began production in January 2015, is able to score 0.89 Mach, or 945 km / h with a projection to the earth's surface. The largest aircraft of the company "Airbus", A380 and is able to develop at all 1020 km / h with a projection to the earth's surface, or 0,95-0,97 Mach, - almost on the verge of transition of flight mode through the sound barrier (in the supersonic flight mode The device overtakes its speed of sound).