| Thanks to the intensive use - and unprecedented - composite materials and improvements in aerodynamics, systems and avionics, the A380 is not only the most spacious commercial aircraft ever built, but also the more modern, establishing standards for the first decade of the 21st century. Airbus has been one of the first constructors to use composites and the A380 reflects this tradition of innovation. Approximately one quarter of the plane is made of composite material - 22 percent of composites based on carbon fibre (CFRP) and three per cent GLARE, aluminum-laminated glass, first used on civilian aircraft. |
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| The A380 includes a modern cockpit with the latest interactive displays and a large quantity of modular avionics systems, integrated, connected via a data link ethernet. The variable-frequency generator, specially designed for the A380, is less complex and more efficient than conventional generators fixed frequency, and moreover, lighter. The modern cabin of the A380 will also be equipped with audio-visual systems on board the most advanced ever developed on airliners. The distribution network with fibre optic, a first on a commercial aircraft, offers a more flexible and sophisticated films, video games and television programmes. |
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