An Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger airliner

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* 2005 – The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.

The Dassault Falcon private jets are built there as well as the military aircraft Rafale and Mirage 2000, the Airbus A380 cockpit, the boosters of Ariane 5, and the M51 SLBM missile.

This system is used in the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II and in Airbus A380 backup flight controls.

* 2005 – The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France

Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 at Singapore Changi Airport

Schiphol is equipped with 18 double jetway gates in preparation for airlines introducing the Airbus A380.

Civilian work increased in the form of participating in design and manufacture of parts for Airbus aircraft, most notably A380 spoilers.

Air France | Air France's Airbus A380, which is operated on the Washington Dulles to Paris-Charles de Gaulle route, taxiing at Dulles Airport.

* On June 6, 2011, Air France began service using the Airbus A380 on its Paris Charles de Gaulle airport to Washington Dulles International Airport route.

Underside of an Airbus A380 | A380.

Although the rule still applies, the visible fuselage " waisting " can only be seen on a few aircraft, such as the B-1B Lancer, Learjet 60, and the Tupolev Tu-160 ' Blackjack ' — the same effect is now achieved by careful positioning of aircraft components, like the boosters and cargo bay on rockets ; the jet engines in front of ( and not directly below ) the wings of the Airbus A380 ; the jet engines behind ( and not purely at the side of ) the fuselage of a Cessna Citation X ; the shape and location of the canopy on the F-22 Raptor ; and the image of the Airbus A380 above showing obvious area rule shaping at the wing root, which is practically invisible from any other angle.

The Boeing 747 was the world's biggest passenger aircraft from 1970 until it was surpassed by the Airbus A380 in 2005.

Aircraft in this category are the Boeing 747, Boeing 767, Boeing 777, Boeing 787, Airbus A300 / A310, Airbus A330, Airbus A340, Airbus A380, Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, McDonnell Douglas DC-10, McDonnell Douglas MD-11, Ilyushin Il-86 and Ilyushin Il-96.

The Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 are the only airliners in production which are too heavy ( more than 400 tons maximum takeoff weight ) for just two engines.

Notable airliners – an Airbus A380 " superjumbo " of Singapore Airlines takes off

Most Airbus cockpits are computerised glass cockpit s featuring fly-by-wire technology.

The Airbus A380 glass cockpit featuring " pull out keyboards and 2 wide computer screens on the sides for pilots "

Early glass cockpits, found in the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 / 90, Boeing 737 Classic, 757 and 767-200 /- 300, and in the Airbus A300-600 and A310, used Electronic Flight Instrument Systems ( EFIS ) to display attitude and navigational information only, with traditional mechanical gauges retained for airspeed, altitude and vertical speed.

Modern aircraft such as the Boeing 737 Next Generation, 777, 717, 747-400ER, 767-400ER, 747-8, and 787, Airbus A320 family ( later versions ), A330 ( later versions ), A340-500 / 600, A340-300 ( later versions ), A380 and A350 are fitted with glass cockpits consisting of LCD units.

All new airliners such as the Airbus A380, Boeing 787 and private jets such as Bombardier Global Express and Learjet use glass cockpits.

( video ) View from the cockpit of an Airbus A319 aircraft of Air France during landing at Charles de Gaulle Airport | CDG A cockpit or flight deck is the area, usually near the front of an aircraft, from which a pilot controls the aircraft.

Airbus A380 cockpit.

The Engine Indication and Crew Alerting System ( used for Boeing ) or Electronic Centralized Aircraft Monitor ( for Airbus ) will allow the pilot to monitor the following information: values for N1, N2 and N3, fuel temperature, fuel flow, the electrical system, cockpit or cabin temperature and pressure, control surfaces and so on.

* January 8-The Airbus A300 is certified, becoming the first wide-body airliner with cockpit accommodations for only two to be certified.

: en: Fogo, Cape Verde | Fogo island aerial shot taken from an Airbus cockpit by the pilot himself

* March 23 – Aeroflot Flight 593, an Airbus A310-304, is flying with unauthorized people – the pilots 16-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter – in the cockpit when the 16-year-old unintentionally disengages the autopilot without the pilots knowledge, causing the plane to bank steeply, go into an unexpected nearly vertical dive, and crash into a hillside in the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain range 20 km ( 12 miles ) east of Mezhdurechensk, Russia.

* Airbus A380 cockpit.

A home built Airbus simulator cockpit

File: Ilha do Fogo aerial shot 1. jpg |< center > Aerial shot taken from an Airbus cockpit

File: Ilha do Fogo aerial shot 2. jpg |< center > Aerial shot taken from an Airbus cockpit

A Condor Airbus A320-200 featuring the 1990s Condor livery with the newly applied " Thomas Cook " titles ( 2004 ).

However, the technology is becoming more common with aircraft such as the Canadair RJ, Airbus A318 and several business jets featuring the displays.

Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A320 economy class seating, featuring AVOD displays in every seat back

In 2012 Pullmantur Air started its charter operations from Madrid-Barajas Airport with three Airbus 321s and two to three Boeing 747s.

On November 12, 2001, about 09: 16 eastern standard time, American Airlines flight 587, N14053, an Airbus A300B4-605R delivered in 1988 with a seating configuration for 267 passengers ( 16 first-class seats and 251 economy-class seats ) and powered by two General Electric CF6-80C2A5 engines, crashed into Belle Harbor, a New York City residential area, shortly after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York.

Airbus and American are currently disputing the extent to which the two parties are responsible for the disaster.

It is also involved in two major joint ventures, the Engine Alliance with GE which manufactures engines for the Airbus A380, and International Aero Engines company with Rolls-Royce, MTU Aero Engines, and the Japanese Aero Engines Corporation which manufactures engines for the Airbus A320 and the McDonnell Douglas MD-90 aircraft.

The airline replaced its two aging BAe 146 four-engined jets in 2004 with faster and more capacious Airbus A319-100 aircraft.

* Belgian Air Force ( Two operated from 1975 ) ( Replaced by two Airbus A310 )

On 20 December 2006, Royal Jordanian announced that they would replace two Airbus A321s with two new units, and order four new Airbus A319s to enter service in early 2008.

The non-Schengen area of terminal 2 has been enlarged in 2009, enabling the airport to receive eight wide-body aircraft at the same time, compared to the current five wide-body gates ( of which only two are suitable for Finnair's Airbus A340 ).

By 1999, two more Airbus jets had arrived and Croatia Airlines started selling the Boeing part of their fleet.

In 2000 two more Airbus planes arrived and an Automated Ticketing System was inaugurated.

In September 2007, for instance, Air Malta made two agreements with Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways by which Air Malta wet-leased two Airbus aircraft to Etihad Airways for the winter period starting 1 September 2007, and provided operational support on another Airbus A320 aircraft leased by Etihad Airways.

In modern times, two major manufacturers still produce heavy passenger aircraft for the civilian market: Boeing in the United States of America and the European company Airbus.

Two of the four new gates are conventional wide-bodied gates, and two are able to accommodate the Airbus A380.

* On May 15, 2010, at just before 11: 00am, a Cathay Pacific Airbus A340 commercial flight from Hong Kong was intercepted by two Canadian CF-18 Hornets in response to a bomb threat.

After the success of the early widebody aircraft, several successors came to market over the next two decades, including the Boeing 767, Airbus A330-A340 Series and the Boeing 777.

The next year, two new Airbus A330s replaced the older A310s on long-haul routes.