Airbus A380

摘要

First to speak was Jens Henrichsen of Airbus, about the pending A380 super-jumbo that will carry 555 passengers by about 2006. He is responsible for the tailplane of the aircraft. The airframe materials breakdown at present for flyweights (buy weights are in parens) is 68 percent aluminum (78 percent), 16 percent carbon fiber composites (10 percent), 10 percent titanium and steel (7 percent), 4 percent Glare, a hybrid of aluminum sheet, S2-Glass fiber and epoxy (2 percent), 2percent surface protection and other (3 percent). The A380 will have about 35 metric tons (77,000 lbs) of composites in its structure.