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Airbus offers US airlines fat profits from obese seats

Airbus is offering US airlines buying its A320 passenger jet extra-wide seats for obese passengers, leading to fatter profits, Airbus' aircraft interiors director said Thursday.

Technology / Other

created May 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Australia's Qantas makes first commercial biofuel flight

Australia's Qantas Friday launched the nation's first commercial flight using a mixture of refined cooking oil, saying it would not survive if it relied solely on traditional jet fuel.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

EU says airline CO2 tax 'less than a coffee'

The EU's climate commissioner played down the impact of the controversial carbon tax being imposed by the bloc on airlines, saying Friday it would cost less than a cup of coffee per passenger.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Airplane rivals launch joint biofuel project

Plane makers and bitter rivals Airbus of Europe, Boeing of the US and Embraer of Brazil announced on Thursday a joint plan to develop affordable biofuels for the airplane industry.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

European airlines rally against EU carbon tax: source

Airbus and six European airlines have written to four EU leaders attacking the carbon tax imposed by the European Union, a source close to the dossier told AFP Sunday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

EU stands firm as polluting tax row threatens Airbus sales

The EU refused Saturday to back down on a planned pollution tax on airline companies after reports China has put an Airbus order on ice and growing discontent in the United States.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 25, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 9

Airbus racks up orders, glitches at Paris Air Show

(AP) -- Airbus stumbled at the launch of the aviation industry's premier event Monday as its star superjumbo clipped a wing and a gearbox glitch derailed a demonstration flight.

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Airbus shows off a see-thru concept plane (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Airbus has begun to show off its version of the plane of the future. It is somewhere between cool and disturbing, depending on who you ask, but it definitely represents some interesting new technology that ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (9) | comments 22 | with audio podcast weblog

Spaceplane that takes off from airport runway could be ready in 10 years

(PhysOrg.com) -- An unpiloted, air-breathing spaceplane that takes off from an airport runway, carries up to 30 passengers, and costs less than one-tenth to launch into space compared to a conventional rocket ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (28) | comments 28 | with audio podcast report

Swiss solar-flight bid to take off for first test flight

The Solar Impulse aircraft, a Swiss bid to fly around the world on solar energy, will make its first test flight Wednesday at a military airbase in western Switzerland, organisers said.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Huge solar powered plane takes to the air (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A huge airplane using solar cells as its only power source is being tested in Switzerland. In its first successful test flight last December, the plane flew only 350 meters at a height of ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 01, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Swiss pilots aim to circle world in a solar-powered plane

Bertrand Piccard is no conventional environmental activist -- he hopes to raise awareness about the potential of renewable energy by flying a solar-powered aircraft around the world.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 21, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

After foiled US plane attack, scanners revisited

As US lawmakers demand to know how a would-be attacker smuggled explosives aboard a plane on Christmas Day, the use of body scanners at airport security points is likely to be revisited.

Technology / Other

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 5

Pioneering solar-powered plane makes airborne hop

The prototype of Solar Impulse, a pioneering Swiss bid to fly around the world on solar power, briefly took off for the first time on Thursday but under battery power, the organisers said.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Alternative fuel 'can power 15% of flights by 2020'

Alternative fuels could power 15 percent of global air traffic by 2020 and 30 percent by 2030, European aircraft-maker Airbus said at the Dubai Airshow on Tuesday.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Airbus

Airbus SAS (English pronunciation: /ˈɛərbʌs/, French: [ɛʁbys] ( listen), German: [ˈɛːɐbʊs], Spanish: [airˈβus]) is an aircraft manufacturing subsidiary of EADS, a European aerospace company. Based in Blagnac, France, surburb of Toulouse, and with significant activity across Europe, the company produces around half of the world's jet airliners.

Airbus began as a consortium of aerospace manufacturers, Airbus Industrie. Consolidation of European defence and aerospace companies in 1999 and 2000 allowed the establishment of a simplified joint-stock company in 2001, owned by EADS (80%) and BAE Systems (20%). After a protracted sales process BAE sold its shareholding to EADS on 13 October 2006.

Airbus employs around 52,000 people at sixteen sites in four European Union countries: France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Spain. Final assembly production is at Toulouse (France), Hamburg (Germany), Seville (Spain) and, since 2009, Tianjin (People's Republic of China). Airbus has subsidiaries in the United States, Japan, China and India.

The company produced and markets the first commercially viable fly-by-wire airliner, the Airbus A320, and the world's largest airliner, the A380.

For more information about Airbus, read the full article at Wikipedia.
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