In October 2020, the 500th A320 built in Tianjin, an A320neo, was delivered to China Southern, twelve years after the final assembly line start in 2008. The amount of flap used on takeoff is specific to each type of aircraft, and the manufacturer will suggest limits and may indicate the reduction in climb rate to be expected. It sounds like you place too much stock in what happens in the flight simulator games you play. GmbH & CO KG, MJET and Reliance Industries are among its users. Some flaps are fitted elsewhere. In early 1998, Airbus revealed its considerations of designing a 100-seat aircraft based on the A320. [34] Range was 5,700 kilometres (3,100 nmi), or 5,950 kilometres (3,210 nmi) with upcoming Sharklets.[34]. As the A320 began operations in 1988, the A321 was launched as its first derivative. [93][94] Upon resale, the aircraft can be reconfigured as a standard A319 by removing its extra tanks and corporate cabin outfit, thus maximising its resale value. [21][22] This is not the same as a leading edge droop flap, as that is formed from the entire leading edge. [87] [13] The A321-100 entered service in January 1994 with Lufthansa. Power on the A320 would be supplied by two CFM56-5-A1s rated at 25,000 lbf (111.2 kN). In December 2010, Airbus announced the re-engined A320neo (new engine option), which entered service with Lufthansa in January 2016. Followers 0. This is a question to all professional Airbus A32S pilots: how much flap is usually set for takeoff? Flaps 1 is rated 15kt higher than 1+F, and a full 30kt higher than Flaps 2. Airframes would be converted by Elbe Flugzeugwerke GmbH (EFW) in Dresden, Germany, and Zhukovsky, Russia. [114] In February 1990 another A320, Indian Airlines Flight 605, crash-landed short of the airport runway in Bangalore, the ensuing fire contributed to the casualty count of 92 of 146 on board. With a similar fuel capacity as the A320-200 and fewer passengers, the range with 124 passengers in a two-class configuration extends to 6,650 km (3,590 nmi), or 6,850 km (3,700 nmi) with the "Sharklets". At takeoff weight of 78.9 tonnes and -20°C temperature (best case scenario), the A320 needs 2,250 metres (7,400 feet). The Airbus A320 family are narrow-body airliners designed and produced by Airbus.The A320 was launched in March 1984, first flew on 22 February 1987, and was introduced in April 1988 by Air France.The first member of the family was followed by the longer A321 (first delivered in January 1994), the shorter A319 (April 1996), and the even shorter A318 (July 2003). Changed A320 autopilot SRS mode only engages with flaps extended. 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[58], Offering 10% more overhead bin volume, more shoulder room, a weight reduction, a new intercom and in-flight entertainment system, noise reduction and slimmer PSU, the enhanced Cabin can be retrofitted. [7] Although unaware at the time, the consortium was producing the blueprints for the A319, A320 and A321, respectively. [3] Middle East Airlines received the milestone airplane, an A320ceo with the manufacturer serial number (MSN) 5,000, on 20 January 2012[105] and eight years later the MSN 10,000, an A321neo, at the celebration of its 75th anniversary on 9 October 2020. Indian Airlines used its first 31 A320-200s with double-bogie main landing gear for airfields with poor runway condition which a single-bogie main gear could not manage. In December 2011, Airbus filed suit in the western district of Texas over Aviation Partners' claims of infringement of its patents on winglet design and construction which were granted in 1993. L In 1984, the program cost was then estimated at £2 billion ($2.8 billion) by Flight International. [21] The flight test programme took 1,200 hours on 530 flights. The aircraft seats up to 39 passengers, but may be outfitted by the customers into any configuration. [8] The single-aisle programme created divisions within Airbus about whether to design a shorter-range twinjet rather than a longer-range quadjet wanted by the West Germans, particularly Lufthansa. [84], The baseline A320 has given rise to a family of aircraft which share a common design but with passenger capacity ranges from 100, on the A318,[34] to 220, on the A321. [23], The first derivative of the A320 was the Airbus A321, also known as the Stretched A320, A320-500 and A325. [8] Airbus considered a fuselage diameter of "the Boeing 707 and 727, or do something better" and settled on a wider cross-section with a 3.7 m (12 ft 2 in) internal width, compared to Boeing's 3.45 m (11 ft 4 in). The 107-seater was launched on 26 April 1999 with the options and orders count at 109 aircraft. The five largest operators were American Airlines operating 428, China Eastern Airlines 339, EasyJet 337, China Southern Airlines 305 and IndiGo 270 airplanes. [101], The initial converted aircraft first flew on 22 January 2020, to be delivered to Vallair, and it secured EASA supplementary type certificate in February. They divert the air around the wing as necessary. This increases the camber and thickness of the wing, which in turn increases lift and drag. 9,200 feet pressure altitude - A319/321 Blitz2767 September 17, 2020, 6:06am #3. [8], Simultaneously, Airbus was developing Airbus A318. [110], As of January 2021[update], a total of 9,709 A320 family aircraft had been delivered with 47 A320ceos (4 A319s, 18 A320s and 25 A321s) to be delivered. [37] Airbus produced a total of 42 A320s per month in 2015, and expects to increase to 50 per month in 2017. A Checks are every 750 flight hours and structural inspections are at six- and 12-year intervals. Flaps are both lift and drag devices. The -300 is said to seat 211 passengers in a single-class configuration and will have 3240 nautical miles of range (6000 kilometers). [4] Some flap track fairings are designed to act as anti-shock bodies, which reduce drag caused by local sonic shock waves where the airflow becomes transonic at high speeds.