#A320

[nocternalrandomness]

A320 Pedestal

[snatching-ishidates-wig]

Air Canada's first delivered A320, with ear warmers and a scarf (1990).

[airviation]

[emaadsidiki]

National Air & Space Museum ✈️🛩️🚀🛰️ Washington DC

[enriquemzn262]

When Airbus was developing the successor of the highly successful A300 twin-engine wide body airliner, their entry into the commercial aircraft market.

They faced the issue of ETOPS restrictions, basically a series of rules that limited aircraft range based on number of engines, and since they wanted to both replace the A300 and compete with the 747 and DC-10/MD-11, they basically developed a single airframe and wing for two planes

The A330, the direct successor to the A300

And the A340, the new challenger in the pacific and long-range flights.

The funny thing is, the A340 didn’t get 4 of the A330 engines, instead, as you can see, it got smaller engines, actually from the narrow body A320.

In effect just giving a tad more power and range compared to the A330, but giving us what has to be the most underpowered wide body airliner ever made, infamous for it’s long take-off runs and atrocious climb rates.

Hence why Airbus came back to its senses and actually gave it proper wide-body engines, finally creating a proper contender to the 747.

Sadly, with the end of the ETOPS restrictions and the rise of ultra-long range twin jets, the days of the A340 were counted, its production run ending in 2010.

Something that actually helped her smaller twin sister A330, which has found new life in the current wide body market thanks to newer, better engines, in a way, learning from the lessons of the A340.

[brianfrench1995]

British Airways Airbus A-320-110 G-BUSB Postcard

@postcardtimemachine

[planeyboys]

Striped Condor appreciation post

[captainmipy]

plane post fo today <3 we got a Frontier Airlines a320 passing just over my head!! small little airplane compared to the big ass jets that also come in here often

I can’t wait to fly these things <3

[canuckus]

An Air Canada Jetz Airbus A320 in the new livery for Jetz.

[aviaposter]

Airbus A320 Ural Airlines VP-BQW. A fragment of the poster

[kgyst]

Ahogy elnézem, két új hajtómű rendel!

Egyébként meg kíváncsi vagyok, repcsi hogy csúszhat meg ennyire. Ott a függőleges vezérsík.

[nocternalrandomness]

Airbus Aircraft

[karlamon]

Oh how I've missed planespotting at Auckland Airport. Great to see widebodies again.

[airviation]

Photo by Panagiotis Papadopoulos

[captainmartinisblog]

A Long Day and 3 4th Bridges!

Saturday 8th June 2024. – Reykjavik, Iceland (first post)

It was a silly o’clock start at the BA Club Europe check-in and being the start of the summer season, it was busy, busy, busy! However, they’ve moved the Club check-in to a more convenient end of the terminal, so it was straight through Fast Track and into the North Lounge by 5.30am!

Today though, we were really in luck because our departure gate was A3, just below the lounge – and there was our Airbus A320 plane waiting….

With just 2.5hrs in the air, there was enough time for a Full English and a second Bloody Mary (!) as we crossed the Firth of Forth, with a clear view of the Forth Bridges….

…..of which there are three these days; the more famous Rail Bridge opened in 1890, the first Road Bridge, opened in 1964 and the most recent Queensferry Crossing right next to it, opened in 2011.

Landing at Keflavik Airport, we had quite a good view of the erupting volcano area near Grindavik to the south-east (now partly evacuated) but it wasn’t like in the movies, with spews of red-hot molten lava raining from the skies, just a lot of steam and smoke and a slowly moving black lava field – thankfully away from Reykjavik!

We had pre-booked a taxi pick-up for the 40 minute transfer to Reykjavik and everything went smoothly, arriving at the Holt Hotel in the city around 10.30.

Storing our luggage at the hotel, we then went off ‘sightseeing’ but as there was quite a lot to see, I’ll put more of that in a second post. In the meantime, just a couple of cuties….

[bellandari]

Started playing MSFS again. I forgot how relaxing these flight sims can be, depending on the aircraft you fly. I've been bouncing between two different models of the Airbus A320 - the FBW and the Fenix. Both a really nice, hard to decide which version I like more.

Might try to learn Salty's 747 soon.