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...bean counters will love. It's a subsonic fuel-efficient jet the company rather inelegantly calls the 7E7. The 7E7, a midsize, 200-seat aircraft that is designed to fly so-called point-to-point routes nonstop, stands in stark contrast to the massive, 555-seat double-decker Airbus A380 that will probably keep to traditional hub-and-spoke networks when it starts flying commercially...
McArtor's latest score was opening Airbus' first U.S. engineering facility last month, in Wichita, Kans., where 60 engineers are working on the wing design of the A380...
...Faber, its deal to make fittings for the A380 is worth $3 million a year. "If you would have told me 10 years ago that I'd be making parts for a European company building the world's largest plane, I'd have thought you were crazy," says Ron Spencer, Faber's president. "But now planes are international products...
...suppliers stand to benefit from new technology that will be built into the A380. Eaton Aerospace, based in Irvine, Calif., is leading an effort to give the Airbus jumbo jet more power in the hydraulic systems than any passenger plane has ever had. "What makes the A380 so exciting is that it is cutting-edge technology," says Steve Eisenberg, head of aerospace operations for Eaton. "The A380 tail is as large as the wing of an Airbus A320; it takes a heck of a lot of hydraulic power to move that...
Airbus has been successful in the past few years selling its smaller airplanes to U.S. carriers such as JetBlue, Northwest and United. It has even signed a contract to sell FedEx 10 of the cargo versions of the A380, which list for $230 million a copy. And Airbus is determined to maintain that momentum. Last year the company hired a telegenic industry veteran to make its case: Allan McArtor, who has served as a fighter pilot in Vietnam, an airline CEO and the head of the Federal Aviation Administration. McArtor briefs lawmakers and airline execs about the 120,000 employees...