15 Facts About Airbus A310

Airbus A310 is a wide-body aircraft, designed and manufactured by Airbus Industrie, then a consortium of European aerospace manufacturers.

Airbus A310 had identified a demand for an aircraft smaller than the A300, the first twin-jet wide-body.

On 7 July 1978, the Airbus A310 was launched with orders from Swissair and Lufthansa.

Airbus A310 ultimately chose to prioritise its focus on one option, which became known as the A300B10MC .

However, due to negotiations with Britain on its return to the Airbus A310 consortium being protracted, alternative options were explored, including potentially manufacturing the wing elsewhere.

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The greater range of the Airbus A310 contributed to the airliner being used extensively by operators on transatlantic routes.

Airbus A310 has been commonly marketed as an introduction to wide-body operations for airlines based in developing countries.

Airbus A310 was a medium- to long-range twin-engined wide-body jet airliner.

The Airbus A310 had a different emergency exit configuration, consisting of four main doors, and two smaller doors over the wings.

A310 was furnished with a two-crew glass cockpit configuration as standard, removing the requirement for a flight engineer; Airbus referred to this concept as the Forward-Facing Crew Cockpit.

Airbus A310 had developed the cockpit to significantly enhance the aircraft's man-machine interface, thereby improving operational safety.

Airbus A310 was equipped with a modified undercarriage, derived from the A300; the landing gear were outfitted with carbon brakes, which were fitted as standard.

The Airbus A310 is outfitted with integrated drive electrical generators along with auxiliary power unit, which were improved versions of those used on the A300.

Airbus A310 is available in two basic versions, the medium range -200 and the longer range -300.

Airbus A310 is used by the armed forces of the following countries:.