25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-0.6: VON KARMAN LECTURE: INVITED:

THE A380 PROGRAMME

C. Champion
Airbus, France

Keywords: A380 programme

•The creation of the Large Aircraft Division (LAD) in April 1996 to start the design concept studies on the A3XX • The LAD objective was to work on the requirements with Airlines, Airports and Airworthiness Authorities for the A3XX • All the different disciplines where assembled under one organisation e.g. engineering, financial, industrial, marketing and transport • The objective to get commitments from the Airlines to enable a launch base

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