Smallest Airbus Makes First Flight
The 100- to 129-seat Airbus A318 made a successful maiden flight on January 15 from Airbus' Finkenwerder airfield in Hamburg, Germany. The aircraft was airborne 3 hours and 44 minutes with a five-man test crew aboard. With a fuselage some eight feet shorter than the A319/ACJ series, the A318 is the...
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