Overall Design Verification Prior to A320 Series Production

Preliminary work for subsequent assembly of structures, equipment and furnishing of the new A320 Airbus was initiated at the MBB Hamburg Plant on a sort of full scale ‘master aircraft’, known as an engineering mock‐up. According to the work‐sharing principle for the A320, all Airbus partners are participating in this work. The ‘master aircraft’ consists of a fuselage with wing centre section, LH main landing gear and the entire aft fuselage section.