#a340

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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.

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Airbus Airliners

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Airbus A340-600 Lufthansa

Registration: D-AIHZ Type: A340-642 Engines: 4 × RR Trent 556-61 Serial Number: 1005 First flight: Apr 14, 2009

Lufthansa, Germany's largest airline, together with its subsidiaries, ranks second in Europe for the number of passengers carried. It is also one of the five founding members of the Star Alliance.

The four-engine Airbus A340 aircraft, notably the largest model, the A340-600, has become an integral part of Lufthansa's long-haul fleet. Like the airline's other wide-body airliners, the A340-600 is stationed at either Frankfurt Airport or Munich Airport, Lufthansa's principal hubs in Germany.

Lufthansa took delivery of its first Airbus A340-600 on November 25, 2003. Over the years, the airline has operated a total of 24 Airbus A340-600 aircraft, with ten still in active service today.

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📷 Just Planes

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Lufthansa A340 at Bogotá airport

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TAP Air Portugal A340-300

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A340

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Watch This Amazing Landing At Naia Int. Airport - PAL A340-300

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Nights like this I am reminded of how vast the world is and how little we are in the world yet important in the grand scheme of things how we are all pieces of the pi puzzle and yet we all add up to complete the circle.

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Egyptian Airbus A340

2023-01-31

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Red-eye flight coming out of JFK

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Airbus A340-600 Qatar Airways A7-AGD A fragment of the poster

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Iberia Airbus A340. 2013. Boston.

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#TransportThursday - Willkommen in Singapur Bundeskanzler Olaf Schulz (Welcome to Singapore, Chancellor Olaf Schulz). 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇸🇬🇸🇬🫡🫡#Throwback The esteemed Chancellor arrived in Singapore for his state visit onboard the classic A340-313X VIP 16+02 "Theodor Heuss”. This A340 is part of the white fleet operated by the 2nd Air Transport Squadron (2. Lufttransportstaffel) of the Executive Transport Wing of the Federal Ministry of Defence (Flugbereitschaft des Bundesministeriums der Verteidigung) which is primarily located at Cologne Bonn Airport. Nice to see these earlier generation 4-engine Airbus planes still going strong. #Luftwaffe #Bundeswehr #TeamLuftwaffe #Flugbereitschaft #BMVg #AviationGeek #MilitaryAviation #MilitaryEnthusiast #aviationphotography #instagramaviation #aviation4u #excellentaviation #PlaneSpotter #PlaneSpotting #MilitaryGeek #instagood #Airbus #A340 #A340313 #Germany #Deutschland #Singapore #Nikon #NikonD500 #Nikonsg #PlanesPatchesPeople (at Singapore / Singapura / 新加坡 / சிங்கப்பூர்) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmeG3x6PJCS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=