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Subject: A340
From: Tom Sanderson <tdscanuck@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:13:39 -0800
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> Do you have any recommended website or text book about A340,
> particularly about its wing structure. i am a student who is doing
> about wing structure of A340. Thank you for your helps......

What do you need to know about it?  Airbus uses pretty much the same 
structural design as other large transport aircraft.  Stiffened 
skin/stringer panels with front and rear spars forming a torsion box and 
ribs to hold the airfoil shape and reduce buckling length of the stringers. 
Airbus, unlike Boeing, uses a center spar for part of the span (out to 
around the first engine, I think).

If you have any local airlines that have A340's, contact their maintenance 
department, explain what you need to do, and see if they will let you look 
at the aircraft manuals.  The airline will have a complete schematic of 
every part of the wing structure.

Tom. 



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