Questions tagged [airbus-a340]
A long-range four-engine widebody jetliner made by Airbus from 1991 until 2011.
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Height from the ground of aircrafts doors
I'm searching for the height from the ground of these AA/CC doors (front and back)
Boeing 737-800
Boeing 737-8200 (800-max)
Airbus A319
Airbus A320
Airbus A321
Airbus A220
Airbus A340
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Is there a known problem with the Airbus A340, fuel, flaps/slats and temperature?
From the press I read that the German minister of foreign affairs stranded with an Airbus A340 in Abu Dhabi, because the flaps or slats would not correctly retract.
To return to the airport they had ...
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Why is the A330/A340's alpha-floor protection disabled above mach 0.53?
One of the A330/A340's several means of flight-envelope protection is something called "alpha floor" protection. In essence, if the aircraft's angle of attack is excessively high, TOGA ...
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Comparisons between the A340 and 747-200 wing: sweep angle and span
Here is a picture of the wings of the A340 (launched in the late 1980s) and the Boeing 747-200/400 (launched in the early 1970s / 80s) superimposed upon each other (source: https://www.amazon.com/...
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How many smoke detectors does the A340 cargo deck have, and how are they wired?
I am a student of Aerospace Engineering, currently I am one year away from completing my degree. For my Electric Routing class I was asked to recreate in Catia the fire system in the cargo bay of an ...
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Why does only the right outboard aileron on the A320/340 float up when the aircraft is in the emergency electrical configuration? [duplicate]
When the A320/340's RAT is powering the aircraft's systems, the aircraft goes into its emergency electrical configuration; one of the effects of this is that the right outboard aileron becomes ...
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Why does an ADIRU 1 failure disable all functions of the A330/340’s GPWS - even those not requiring ADIRU data?
Among the many (many many) aircraft systems degraded or rendered unavailable to the flightcrew of QF72 as a result of a partial intermittent ADIRU 1 (Air Data / Inertial Reference Unit 1) failure, the ...
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Why shouldn’t the A330/40’s speedbrakes be used in alternate law?
On page 30 of the ATSB report into the QF72 accident (page 50 of the PDF file of the report), in a table describing the actions required of the flightcrew in response to some of the ECAM messages ...
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What is that A340 cockpit panel on the glareshield?
I want to know the panel's name and how it works. This picture is an Iberia Airbus A340-600
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Why was the A340 developed with four engines?
The predecessor to the A340 program begun in 1982, when Airbus released the first specification of the designated TA9 and TA11 programmes and in 1986 the TA9/TA11 programmes were officially launched ...
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What does the A340's underwing bulge (plastron) look like?
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From the start, engineers noticed that the wings were not stiff enough to carry the outboard engines at cruising speed without warping and fluttering. To alleviate this, an ...
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What is the outer kink on the airbus 340-600?
I was checking some information about the a340-600 and got this statement: "thickness/ chord ratios 15.25 per cent at root, 11.27 per cent at inner kink, 9.86 per cent at outer kink and 10.60 per cent ...
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Why doesn't the A330/A340 have a stickshaker?
When an A330/40 is in alternate law1 and approaching a stall, it has a stall warning composed entirely of a cricket chirp and a voice saying "stall, stall". Most other aircraft, in contrast, have a ...
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Why is the A330/A340's angle-of-attack protection disabled in alternate law, even if the AoA vanes are operating normally?
Reading about Air France Flight 447, to quote Wikipedia (emphasis added):
... A second consequence of the reconfiguration into alternate law was that stall protection no longer operated. Whereas in ...
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Where exactly are the pitot tubes positioned on the A330/340?
While going through a document for analysis I came across a statement saying the positions 1 and 2 of the pitot probes are symmetrical on long-range Airbus aircraft but not on their single-aisle ...
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