1006. Weight Engineering Approach in the A300 Program as an Example of International Cooperation
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Paper
Abstract
Certain countries in the European Air- and Spacecraft industry have been cooperating in various programs over the last 15 years. The following Transport A/C have been designed and built by different partners during this time, listed in order of first flight dates.
– Transall
– Concorde
– F-28
– Airbus
Fig. 1 enumerates the cooperating and the participating countries and partners for these aircraft.
This paper will use the A 300 development and will give some aspects of the weight engineering approach used in this international program.