This makes the Airbus operation adjacent at Hamburg-Finkenwerder Airport the third-largest site in the civil aviation industry worldwide. Employees at Hamburg are central to Airbus programmes. The assembly line is equipped with the latest robotic technology, a new logistics concept, automated positioning by laser measurement, as well as a digital data acquisition system.
Some of the major aircraft sections produced at Hamburg are shipped outside of Europe, to be used on A Family final assembly lines in China at Tianjin and the U. Incorporating two seven-axis robots and the use of mobile tooling platforms, it is the most modern of its kind and sets new industrial standards, offering a high degree of flexibility, automation and digitalisation in a modern and ergonomic-optimized working environment.
In the engineering domain, key competences in Hamburg revolve mainly around the development of fuselage structures, along with the cabin design, innovation and system integration. For the A Family , A and A , this takes place in the unique Airspace Customer Definition Centre CDC , which houses the latest technologies and showrooms for a faster and easier cabin definition process. In Bremen, more than 2, people work at the second-largest Airbus Commercial site in Germany — where among other things they are responsible for the design, manufacture, integration and testing of high-lift systems for the wings of Airbus aircraft.
Stade also is one of the world's leading centres for carbon fibre reinforced plastic CFRP — the weight-saving composite material that Airbus has increasingly incorporated into its aircraft. Maintenance and repair, technical training and equipment integration for the global customer fleet are carried out by Airbus at its facility in Kassel.
The site is concentrated on the development of satellites, space probes, instruments and equipment for Earth observation, navigation, meteorology and space exploration. Furthermore, the site produces and develops reconnaissance and surveillance systems C5ISR , security systems and mobile systems.
Standalone, as a perfect complement to a strategic tanker or for front-line re-fuelling missions from tactical locations, the AM refuels drogue-receivers and increase flexibility and availability of other air assets.
The AM is the proven, certified and in-operations most advanced airlifter with 21st century state-of-the-art technologies. The AM can airlift in its large cargo bay most of the critical armed forces equipment that no longer fits in previous generation tactical airlifters, such as a heavy helicopter, an infantry fighting vehicle or a humanitarian excavator.
Thanks to its combined strategic and tactical capabilities, the AM has proven better range, speed, altitude, payload and tactical performance than previous-generation tactical airlifters, enabling the delivery of game-changing capabilities to the point of need, such as next to a natural disaster or a theatre of operations where strategic airlifters cannot operate.
The AM enables cost-effective and rapid response to crises. The aircraft has also demonstrated its worth in supporting humanitarian and disaster relief operations as well as VIP transport. The AM assembly takes place in Spain; the wings largely designed with composite materials are manufactured in the UK, while the fuselage is built in Germany.
The AM made its first flight on 11 December The first production aircraft was delivered to the French Air Force in August and entered into service a year after. Previous-generation tactical airlifters have good tactical performance but cannot carry the outsize military and humanitarian relief loads because their cargo holds are too small. Current strategic aircraft are good outsize-load airlifters but are costly and have limited tactical capability as they cannot operate from soft fields.
Thanks to its good tactical performance and the ability to carry overweight loads over long distances, the AM fills the current logistic and tactical capability gap. With a maximum payload of up to 37 tonnes 81, lb and a volume of m3 12, ft3 , the AM can carry numerous pieces of outsize cargo, including vehicles and helicopters that are too large or too heavy for previous generation tactical airlifters, for example an NH90 or a CH Chinook helicopter or a heavy infantry fighting vehicle for military purposes.
It can also carry a heavy logistic truck, a rescue boat or large lifting devices, such as excavators or mobile cranes needed to assist in disaster relief. In the AM successfully completed the certification flights for the alternate and simultaneous airdrop of up to paratroopers, 58 per door. The AM is the only large airlifter that can fly heavy and outsize equipment directly to the point of need, able to land virtually everywhere. The AM is designed to operate efficiently from austere airfields, with unpaved airstrips, short runways, limited space for parking or manoeuvring and no ground facilities — conditions that present severe constraints for any tactical airlifter.
The autonomous capability of the AM enables operations from remote austere airstrips. The state-of-the-art digital load master work station LMWS enables full management of the Cargo Handling System and monitoring of aerial delivery operations.
The cargo floor can be re-configured very quickly, as rollers can be manually and easily turned upside down by a single operator in order to have rollers either down for flat floor configuration or up for pallet configuration.
The main landing gear can be kneeled to lower the rear of the aircraft in order to adjust the height from cargo floor to ground and reduce the crest angle formed between the ramp and the cargo floor when the ramp is deployed to the ground.
Flying faster, the AM can respond more rapidly to crises because greater distances can be flown in one crew duty day. Also, as it can fly higher, the aircraft can cruise above poor weather and turbulence found at medium altitudes, resulting in less fatigue for the crews, passengers or troops alike.
Designed from the outset to be a dual-role transport and tanker aircraft, the AM provides air forces with a cost-effective way to acquire an air-to-air AAR refuelling capability in addition to a versatile logistic and tactical airlifter.
In addition, the country is home to extensive fleet support facilities that cater to both civil and military helicopters. Airbus undertakes parts manufacturing and the assembly for the Eurofighter also at the Getafe site. The Barajas and Tres Cantos sites in the Madrid region carry out work for most European space programmes, such as: the Ariane 5 and Ariane 6 commercial launch vehicles, the Copernicus Earth observation platforms and the Galileo satellite navigation constellation.
Find here more information in Spanish, for the Airbus Space activity in Spain. Airbus makes a significant investment effort in research and development. In recent years, Airbus also has been the company based in Spain with the most filings for European patents.
Airbus Spain carries out actions as a part of its corporate social responsibility such as helping students find their career path in aerospace through the ' Airbus Flying Challenge ' programme.
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