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Airbus awards contract to NORDAM

The Airbus contract is the largest NORDAM has received for cabin windows and will mean the addition of 15 jobs at the company's Transparency Group in Tulsa, company officials said.

"Airbus and NORDAM share a long supply relationship and our recent selection is a reflection of our commitment to service and quality," said T. Hastings Siegfried, chief operating officer of NORDAM Transparency Group and vice chairman of NORDAM Group Inc.

"We are happy to say we are the cabin window provider for the world's largest aircraft, the A380, and now the world's fastest growing aircraft family, the A320."

Speaking from Le Bourget, France, where a delegation of 20 NORDAM executives are attending the International Paris Air Show, company officials said the Tulsa aerospace manufacturer would produce cabin windows for new Airbus A318, A319, A320 and A321 aircraft.

NORDAM also will be the after-market supplier of cabin windows for Airbus Spares Procurement Group, and it is authorized to sell windows directly to 285 airlines flying 4,420 aircraft in the A320 family, company executives said.

"It is one of the fastest growing fleets in the world," said NORDAM spokesman Carlos Flores. "They (Airbus) are producing 38 aircraft a month and moving up to 42 a month. For us, that volume is tremendous. It's our biggest cabin window contract."

NORDAM has supplied transparency products to Airbus for more than 10 years.

The privately held Tulsa company also fabricates wing tip glazing assemblies for the A320 family, A330, A340 and the A380; landing light glazing assemblies for the A380; and cabin windows for the A380.

NORDAM executives said the company has begun expansion of its production capacity at the Transparency Group, 7018 N. Lakewood Ave.

The Transparency Group will increase cabin window production to more than 60,000 panes at peak production, officials said. Operational upgrades have been made at the facility to improve efficiency and the quality of NORDAM's acrylic casting process in preparation for increased production under the Airbus contract, company executives said.

The Tulsa company casts its own acrylic and produces its trademarked NORDEX 188 stretched acrylic for use in cabin windows, glazings and flight deck products.

NORDAM's Transparency Group produces transparency products for the commercial, business, military and rotorwing aircraft markets.

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Airbus A340 is a large commercial passenger aircraft manufactured by Airbus. It has a design similar to the type Airbus A330 but the A340 uses four engines are not just two like the A330. Intended to replace the previous generation aircraft like the Boeing 747 but this latest variants now compete with the Boeing 777. More than 370 A340 operated worldwide in September 2010. The first study published on the A340 which has the code 1981 TA11, which is shown in the magazine Air International edition in November (along with the appearance of the A300 in the same year at the Farnborough Airshow.) Image concept of A320 (SA 9) and A330 (TA9) also published, along with performance estimates made by Airbus Industrie. Airbus A340 last sent to Iberia in 2010. A340 was launched in June 1987 as a complement to long-haul flights from short-haul aircraft A320 and A300 medium-range. At that time, a twin-engine Airbus aircraft have a weakness compared to aircraft such as Boeing 747 ETOPS problem which is defined as a rule: a twin-engine aircraft should remain at the farthest distance of 60 minutes daribandara alternative, which prevent them from competing in long distance flights over water. Furthermore, wide-bodied aircraft ETOPS qualified berpenumpang 250-300 seats, peaswat engined three DC-10 and L-1011, is aging, because it was entering the ministry since the early 1970s. A340 is expected to use the new superfan engines made by International Aero Engines, but the development of the machine is stopped. Engine house of the superfan engine has enough space that allows the laying of a large fan at the rear of the machine. As a result of the superfan cancellation by IAE, CFM International CFM56-5C4 engine used as the sole option than to choose another alternative machines. A longer version, the A340-500 and -600, powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 500. When the A340 make its debut in 1991, warned that the wings are not mechanically strong enough to carry the machine beyond the cruising speed tanpamembengkok and vibrate. To overcome this, a buffer under the wing of the so-called Plastron developed to fix airflow problems around the engine mountings and to add flexibility. A340 modification begin commercial service in 1993 with Lufthansa and Air France In the 1990s, when airlines began looking for a replacement aircraft for the flight back to the 1970s made 747-100/200, Airbus studied extension of the framework to make the A340-400, which is planned over 70m long.

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