- Airbus is a consortium of 4 European aerospace companies based in Germany, Spain, England and France
- Inside the video, we should notice Joe said that different parts of the Airbus aircraft are made by these four countries separately – to talking about the composition of a commercial airliners, we could talk about:
- Cockpit ≠ Fuselage section
- Empennage
- Flaps
- Spoilers
- Main wing section
- Horizontal stabiliser and Elevator
- Fin and Rudder
- Retractable Landing gear and its stoarage door
- Cabin door / Cargo compartment door
- Engine as well as Engine pylons
- All these aircraft component are sent to the Final Assemble Line to complete the assembly process
- A320 first delivery in 1988 to Airfrance – Notes: first delivery ≠ first flight (during developing and testing)
- Feature of A320 – first application of “fly-by-wire” system and sidestick on commercial aviation
- A320 is the “base” model and other variant (her sibling) were born later – basically they only have been lengthened or shortened
- Two operating crews required (plus two observer seats – jump seat)
- 6 windows – Notes : A350 is the first model in Airbus wide-bodies without sliding window
- All lights extinguished cockpit interface – all button are lit up and the status “off/fault” could be noticed easily – from its design philosophy