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We all know Airbus is a European airplane
manufacturer. Lately they have been in the news for selling more planes
then Boeing. But is Airbus metric? Does Airbus design their planes
in metric? Do they use metric parts?
Below is some info on Airbus' North American
operations. Notice the use of square feet. Then there is Airbus
china, with the use of square metres. With 100 Engineers working in
Kansas, one has to wonder if they do their design work in FFU or
SI.
Any ideas?
Euric
There are four established hubs of Airbus
activity in North America. Headquarters for Airbus North America and
Airbus North America Customer Services, Inc. are located in Herndon,
Virginia, minutes from Washington D.C. and Washington Dulles International
Airport.
The newest Airbus facility in the U.S., and largest in
terms of people-power, is in Wichita, Kansas. Airbus North America
Engineering, Inc., opened in Spring 2002, is the first design and
engineering venture for Airbus in North America and hosts some 100
engineers working on the newest and largest Airbus aircraft: the
A380.
The Airbus North America Customer Services, Inc. spares
centre is located in Ashburn, Virginia. Working in concert with the spares
facilities in Hamburg and Beijing, the Ashburn centre serves customers in
the U.S., Canada and much of Latin America.
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A $50 million, 100,000-square-foot Airbus training centre is located
in Miami, Florida and trains more than 3,000 air crew mostly from North
and Latin America, each year.
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Airbus has had an office in Beijing since 1990,
while customer services representatives all over China provide on the spot
airline support.
The CASC/Airbus Customer Services Training &
Support centre, jointly established by the China Aviation Supplies Import
& Export Corporation (CASC) and Airbus, near the Beijing Capital
Airport, is the first and most modern combined training and customer
support facility in China. It can provide 10,000 hours of training per
year for flight crews, maintenance engineers, mechanics and cabin
crews.
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The 5,000 square metre spare parts servicing centre stocks more than
25,000 parts. It is complemented by spare parts from more than 20 vendors
from Europe and the United States who have set up facilities at the
support centre.
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