Airbus 318 i luften for første gang.

[Simen Trovatten Taraldsen]

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A318 TAKES OFF ON MAIDEN FLIGHT

15 January 2002

Airbus’ A318, the latest member of Airbus’ popular single-aisle family, was cleared for its maiden take-off from the Finkenwerder airfield in Hamburg this morning. The first A318 took to the skies at 10:11 hours local time (9:11 GMT).

The flight was captained by Bernd Schaefer, Chief Pilot, Hamburg, with Jacques Rosay, Airbus Chief Test Pilot, as first officer, Manfred Birnfeld and Hermann Schmoeckel as flight test engineers and Bernard Kamps as test flight engineer.

The A318 took off at a weight of 57.5 tonnes (126,800 lbs). Around 7 tonnes (15,400 lbs) of flight test instrumentation, including 94 km/58 miles of electrical wiring, are used to record the thousands of parameters necessary for a full and thorough analysis of the aircraft’s in-flight performance. Today´s first flight is powered by PW6000 engines from Pratt & Whitney.

[Christian Håkonsen]

Dette høres bra ut! Selv kan jeg ikke vente til A330-100 skal på vingene.