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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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9 October 1981
WE~T EUROPE REPORT
_ SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(FOUO 11/al)
CONTENTS
BIOTECHNOLOGY
'Biotechnologies' Task Force Created at DGRST
(LE PROGRESS SCIENTIFIQUE, Mar-Apr 81) 1
ENERGY
FRG, Poland Found Joint Coal Conversion Reaearch Center
- (STAHL IJND EISEN, 27 Jul 81) 5
New Gasification Method Processes All Types of Coal
~STAHL UND EIS~N, 27 Jul 81) 6
Wind Power Plant Connected to National Grid
(IL SOLE-^_4 ORE, 25 Jul 81) 8
- INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY
Italian ~xperts Work on Robots Wi*h Tactile Capability
(Carlo Arcari; EUROPEO, 13 Jul 81) 9
TRANSPORT.4TION
Three Main Participants Meet To Discuss New Airbus A 320
~ (AIR & COSMOS, 29 Aug 81) 11
- First A:510 Nears Completion, A 300 Sales Reach 150
(AIR & COSMOS, 29 ~ug 81) 13
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BI(YfECHNOLOGY
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'BIOTF.CH~IOLOGIES' TASK FURCF. CREATFD AT DGRST
Yaris LE PR(~R~S SCIF.NTIFIQUE in French Mar-Apr 81 pp 3-5
_ [Text] The idea of exploitin~ the power of synthesis of the living ceil, a true
- chemical plant whose programming proves to be modifiable at will, is responsible for
the rapid progress of hiotechnolo~ies with industrial aims.
_ The government wants our country to methodically develop the study, research, and
_ applicar.ions of biotPChnologies in all relevant national act ivity sectors.
To this end, the Gtate secretary for research has asked DGRST (General Delegation
for Scientific and Technical Research) to form a Biotechnologies Task Force capable
of makin~ all necessary efforts to develop appropriate research in the publ.ic
sector, and to bolster the scientific competence of industria 1 laboratories.
The intensified basic research and its achi2vements must thus go hand in hand with
the transf.er of knowledge and know-how from fundamental research to industry, whom
the a~ithorities are in fact encouraging to resolutely step on a road which will lead
to a hio-industrial revolution.
Or~;anization of the Riotechnolo~ies Task For.ce
The Biotechnologies Task Force is a group which gathers the _`~ur DGRST sectors
conce rned with upstream research on living cells and with transfer of this research
for industrial exptottation. Each sector has an interface wi th at least two
adiacent sectors and is open [o the outside, with the ~oal of dealing with the
various occiirrences of biotechnolop,ies in association with such interested organs as
CNRS (fdational Center for Scientific Research), INSERM (National Institute for
Health and Medical Research), INRA (National Institute for A~ronomic Research),
universities, and industry.
In addition, for all r~atters concerning relations with the industry in the areas of
ci~emistry, pnarmace~iticals, apronomy, and agricultural f ood p roducts, this structure
i.s widely open to the Orientation Committee for the Developme nt of Strategic
Industries (CODIS) and the National Aqency for Research Valorification (ANVAR).
This strategic aspect is essential to the extent to which th e Biotechnologies Task
I~orce of DGRST is upstream of development and intends to compete in industrial
innovation.
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Organismes de recherche
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~B) BIOLOGIE DE BASE
~ Micxobiologie
Bi~logia mol~culaire et cellulaire
G~nie g~n~tique
~E ) 2 charg~s de rnission: ~
~ Corutituants Y Philippe Kourilsky y
cellulaires France Plessier-Normand Sedeur agronomie
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MEDICAMENT RECHERCHES DE TRANSFERT
Pierre Douzot~
Industries 2 charg~s de mission : ~~ei11~ . 2 charg~s de mission : i'
pharmaceutiques 4 Maurice-Bernard Flaury ~A) pour les Gilbert Durand Industries
Annie Wolf recherches Maurice Robert agro�alimentaires
biolog~ques et
Syrtthgaes m8dicales
he~misynth~ses
, R (D~ CHIMIE A ~
Chargb de mission
Michel Sousielle
Chimie fine Mat~riauz de base
G~nie enzymatique ? biomasse
Industries chimiques
�Pour a rcaur un waond ch~rq~ d~ mirion wrs proch~in~rrrnt nomml.
_ Key: (A) Pierre Do�zou, cou~iselor for biologic and medical research
(B) Research organs
BASIC BIOLOGY
Microbiology
Molecular and cellular biology
Cenetic engineering
Two task-force leaders: Philippe Kourilsky
France Plessier-Normand
(C) Agronomy sector
TRANSFER RF.SF.ARCH
Agricultural food industries
Two task-force leaders: Gilhert Durand
- Maurice Robert
- (D) CHEMISTRY
Task-force leader*: Michel Soustelle
Fine chemistry
Enzyr~atic en~ineerinQ
Biomass hasic materials
Chemical industries
* A second leader will be named for this sector in the near future
(E) Cellular components
PHARMACEUTICALS
Pharmaceutical industries
Synthesis and semi-synthesis
Two task-force leaders: Maurice-Bernard Fleury
Annie 6lolf
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= These actions are thus conducted jointly with the Ministry of Industry (notably
ANVAR) and the State Secretariat for Agricultural and Food Industries, and are
deliberately open to the industrial sector.
Tasks: Pe rsonnel Trainin~
Through a voluntary policy of training scholarships;
Through t1~e organization of courses and training study programs in laboratories that
are already specialized;
' Throu~h encouragement to reconve rt the methods and study topics of tenured
researchers and teams in research organizations and universities.
This policy is ca rried out in concert with interested research organs and
universities. .
Basic Biolo~y (Concerted Actions)
Increasec~ ef fort in advanced c~olecular and cellular biology, as well as in ger~etic
engineering;
Development of research in hasic microhiology;
Transfer of knowledge acquired with micra-organisms, to animal and vegetal cells;
Uirected actions on essential components of cells, with a view to making them
available for all suitable utilizations (oligonucleotides, hybridomes, interferon,
enzymatic systems, and so on).
Transfer and Finali.zed Kesearch
Prima rily concerned witt~ overseein~ the development of such "centers of excellence"
as ti~e Institut Pasteur and the laboratories of the universities of Compiegne,
Strasbourg, and Toulo�se, as well as the tnstallation of a center at GriQnon.
The finalized research concerns mainly the area of fermentati.ons, and finds its ,
a~plication in agric~iltural food product problems. Biomass is also considered as
Interfaceci with chemistry.
Chemistry
, Obtain hasic materials: this means an exploitation of the biomass in its chemical
context, rather than exclusively with its energetic potential.
Fine chemi.stry: as a priority, the use of enzymatic Pngineering to innovate basic
chemical products, as well as products of therapeutic interest, some of which are of
a cellular nature.
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Phannaceuticals
In this domain, the Biotechnologies Task Force devotes itself to exploiting the
implications of basic biology and chemistry.
Its policy consists of remaining in constant contact with the companies interested
_ in this question, of supplying information, and is~uing bilateral contracts.
Logistics
Creation and development of cell banks and their components. Voluntary policy for
_ production, stocking, and distribution of monoclonal antibodies and nucleic
components.
. These actions will be conducted in coordination ~aith interested organs.
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ENERGY
FRG, POL:,ND FOUND JOINT COAL CONVERSION RESEARCH CENTER
Duesseldorf STAHL UND EISEN in German 27 Jul 81
[Text] A juint research center for coal refining has been established by the Alfried
iCrupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation, Essen, and the Ministry for Science, Univer-
sity Curricula and Engineering of the VRP.
' The agreement was signed in Essen on May 13, 1981, by Berthold Beitz, chairman of
- the Board of Curators and member of the Board of Business Management, of the Alfried
Krupp von Bohlen and Halback Foundation and by Dr. Habil. Janusz Gorski, Minister
of Science, University Curricula and Engineering of the VRP. The Krupp foundation
is participating with DM 15 million and the Polish Ministry of Science with 250 mil-
_ lion zloty.
The agreement runs until 1990. It controls the joint scientific and scientific-
eagineering effort in the field of coal refining. The research center will be set
up as an independent unit at the Silesian Technical University where good prerequi-
sites already exist for undertaking the research work. The direction of the re-
search is determined by an 8-member council composed of equal numbers of leading
scientists and experts from both countries. The research r2sults will be fully avail-
able to both the Polish Ministry of Science and the Krupp Foundation.
The initial research work will be focused primarily on the development of a special
coal gasification process for producing various gases which will be used for heating
in energy production and as a raw material in the chemical industry.
A broad base will be laid for the joint effort through conferences and symposia in-
volving scientists and experts from the two countries. Further, an attempt will
he made to exchange researchers between the research facilities of the respective
host countries.
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ENERGY
NEW GA~IFICATION METHOD PROCESSES ALL TXPES OF COAL
Duesseldorf STAHL UND EISEN in German 27 Jul 81 p 32
[Article: "High-Grade Gas From all Types of Coal"]
' [Text] At KtID Humboldt Wedag AG a new coal gasification process is presently being
_ developed to operational maturity. It exhibits special advantages and the facility
is relatively simple to build. With this process, which is based on the process
known as autotherm coal gasification in an iron bath, a high-grade gas is produced
which contains in general only carbon monoxide and hydrogen and is almost free of
sulfur components and carbon dioxide. Thus, in many cases it can bP used directly
_ without additional washing.
Based on extensive research and development work, a facility will be built for large-
scale tests of the Humboldt coal gasification process. It will gasify 10 t of coal
per hour at a pressure of 10 bar and ~ temperature of 1,350 to 1,4000 deg C; this
amounts to a volumP of about 20,000 m(i.N.)/h. From the operation of this installa-
tion, whose start up is planned for the end ~of 1982, the data and experience required
for large-scale applicatior of the process will be acquired. The development pro-
ject will be completed in 1984 at the latest.
The Humboldt coal gasification process is based on the dissolution of carbon in mol-
ten iron with subsequent reaction of the carbon with the gasifying medium. The
gasification reactor is a refractory-lined cnntainer with a molten-iron bath. Finely
powdered coal with a transport gas and lime with oxygen are injected into the iro~
bath through cooled, complex jets. Yet other gasifying media such as air, stea~n
and carbon dioxide can be introduced at the same time through the complex ~ets. The
gasification process runs on the injected coal, lime and gasifying medium; however,
the 'iron isnot consumed in the process. The raw gas is largely freed from dust in
a hot-gas particle separator; and the nongasable constituents are continuously ex~
;.racted from the reactor as carbon-free molten slag which is crushed after cooling.
The Humboldt coal gasification process has several distinct advantages compared to
many other processes. All types of coal can be used irrespective of their properties
such as cokeability, volatile constituents, ash and sulfur. Since the coal is
completely converted in the gasifying process at high temperatures, there are no
byproducts.
Because of.its favorable composition, the gas is exceptionally well suited as a start-
ing material for various chemical-synthesis processes.
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In addition, the raw gas is practically free from oxidizing components such as carbon
dioxide, steam and sulfur compounds and can therefore be used for example in direct
reduction installations without having to be washed as an intermediate step. Due
to the extraordinarily low sulfur content (below 20 ppm), the gas is well suited
for use in combined gas-steam turbines for generating electricity.
With over 98 percent carbon conversion, the process exhibits a high specific effi-
ciency in gas production. According to the present st~ate of knowledge, a reactor
can generate a gas-volume rate of more than 200,000 m(i.N.)/h.
Additional information can be obtain~d from KHD Humbold.t Wedag AG, Postfach 910457,
D-S000 Cologne 91, FRG
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EPIERG't
WIND POWER PLANT CONNECTED TO NATIONAL GRID
Milan IL SOi,E-24 ORE in Italian 25 Jul 81 p 4
[Article: "The Cagliari Wind Power Plant Inaugurated--The First Sardinia Wind Goes
into the ENEL (National Electric Power Agency) Network")
[Textj Cagliari--For the first time in Italy, the energy produced by a wind genera-
tor has been put into the national electric-power networ~c. It is the first step in
the ENEL project called "wind-sails for electricity," a vast research program that
has i.nvolved experimentation and practical application in Sardinia at Santa Cateri-
na, a locality in the commune of San Giovanni Suergiu, close to the southwest coast.
In presenting the wind-power generator, the president of ENEL, Francesco Corbellini,
said that tlie experimental plant represents the first phase in the electric-pow~er
company's wind-power strategy and marks an exceptionally important occasion. The
program's aim is to arrive, in successive stages, at the building, in Sardinia, of a
500-kilowatt wind power plant composed of 10 FIAT-ENEL windmills of 50 kilowatts
each, and subsequently to develop large-size machines (rotor diameter of about 100
meters, power of 4,000 kilowatts).
"Before the end of 1982," Corbellini said, "~NEL will put the 10 windmills into op-
eration in the power plant built in the high Nurra, in the Sassari region."�
The "wind-sails" project is the logical outcome of the results achieved through
t~chnical-economic studies that demonstrated that at suitable sites, wind power is
the most competitive of the renewable energy sources. With regard to costs, the
president of ENEL stressed that a kilowatt produced by the use of wind presently
costs 100 lire as against 70 lire for gas-oil and 25 lire for nuclear power. Among
the renewable sources, the exploitation of wind, even if technica: 3ifficulties re-
main to be overcome as regards the big windmills, is very advantageous--certainly
more advantageous than exploitation of colar energy.
"With the photovoltaic system to which ENEL is devoting a lot of attention," Corbel-
lini said, "it would not be possible to get below 250 lire per kilowatthour. The
anemological map oE Italy shows that Sardinia is in an especially favorable posi-
tion, liaving a wind regime particularly well-adapted to exploitation."
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ITALIAN EXPERTS WORK ON ROBOTS WITH TACTILE CAPABII,ITY
rtilan EUROPEO in Italian 13 Jul 81 p 46 ~
[Article by Carlo Arcari: "Hey, Robot, Let's Shake Hands--Three Italian Experts Are
- Inventing New Automata, with a Very Human�Sense"~
[Text] The "electronic hand" will be covered with a special plastic material full
of sensors. This will enable it to recognize objects, and the robots will thus have
the sense of touch. Science fiction? No, simply the latest frontier in research on
robots.
"The idea came to me while I was watching the workers of Olivetti," says engineer
Pier Carlo Pinotti, a specialist in automation and robotics," who for 8 hours at a
stretch pick and Fut together typewriter parts of various kinds, which are all mixed
up in the boxes under the cutte.rs. It is work that the workers now do without even
looking at the pieces, using touch only."
By touch, we can perceive the state of an object without seeing it: with the hand,
we recognize whether an object is hot or cold, hard or soft, of inetal or plastic,
and we identifyshapes. When we touch it, its image appears clearly on our private
monitor (the brain), together with all the memories that relate to it.
But toucti is all a question of skin: and to widen the sensorial sphere of robots, it
is necessar.y to recreate this sensitivity with an artificial material, combining ro-
botics and bioengineering. This is what, alongside Pinotti, two researchers of the
Piaggio Center of the University of Pisa--Danilo De Rossi and Paolo Dario, bioengin-
eers who have been working for some time on "sensors" for biomedical applications--
are trying to do.
To achieve the "electronic hand," the three specialists will exploit the properties
of PVF2 (polyvinylidene Eluoride), a thin film of transparent plastic which, sub-
jected to pressure, can emit an electrical field. This characteristic of PVF2 has
already been used in making a catheter which, inserted to reach the aorta, measures
flow pressure and cardiac sounds.
- A thin covering of PVF2 full of sensors will constitute the palm of the robot's
hand. The sensors are electrodes of aluminum or chrome and gold, stamped onto the
plastic by a special process, and differ in type depending on the datum to be per-
ceived (pressure, ultrasonic waves, temperature variations, etc). "It is important
to emphasize," Pinotti further states, "that these sensitive plastics will make it
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possible to recognize objects in far shorter times than with the optical systems

~ with television cameras."
The robots that "see" represent the second generation of the automata and are abvut
to taKe the place of the "stupid" ones that work in factories today. With their
television eyes, these robots can analyze the scene in which they are working and
can decide what to do when confronted with occasionally differing situations. But
sight is a complicated sense, and the analysis work obtained thourgh a television
camera by an artificial intelligence is long ar.d laborious and takes up too much of
- the computer's time.
The piezoelectric polymers (the sensitive plastics) will not be used only as sensors
--that is, as "skin." Some researchers are already thinking of producing real mus-
_ cle masses with these materials. How? "By working with polyacrylamide 'gel'," re-
plies engineer De Rossi--"a collapsible plastic material that can contract or re'lax
on command."
The idea is to produce with this material capillaries which, once filled with a sa-
Line solution and subjected to a field of electrical voltage, can "collapse" (that
is, lose pressure) in a controlled manner. "The thinner the capillary is," De Rossi
explains, "the faster the contraction is, the values of which can be made similar to
those of human muscles."
Today the Pisa bioengineers are working along with the University of Genoa research
group that has made an optical system for robots which is very similar to the human
_ one ~EUROPEO, No 41, 1980). Thus, with eyes from Genova and skin and muscles from
Pisa, will the Cipputi of Duemila be born?
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TRANSPORTATION
THREE MAIN PARTICIPANTS NIEET TO DISCUSS NEW AIRBUS A 320
Paris AIR & COSMOS in French 29 Aug 81 p 8
~Text~ The French minister of transport, Mr Charles Fiterman, met with the
British secretary of state for industry, Mr Normal Tebbit, and the West German
secretary of state for aeronautics cooperation, Mr. Martin Gruner, in London on
17 July. The purpose of this meeting was to discuss the Airbus program.
The A 320 program was officially brought up for the first time. Although the
French authorities had had the matter referred to them by AEROSPATIALE ~National
Industrial Aerospace Company~, neither the British authorities not the German
authorities had been approached regarding it by British Aerospace and NSBB ~Messer-
schmitt-Baldow-Blohm~ respectively. Following the 17 July meeting, the govern-
ments requested the industrialists to submit their proposals. The ministers will
- meet again before the end of this year specifically to examine customer reactions
to the A 320 project, which has already signed up Air France (25 planes on
conditioned order, 25 on option).
British Aerospace may already have submitted its A 320 report to the British
authorities by the time this article appears in print. It is known that the Brit-
ish company would like to develop the front end of the plane but would also want
to take over its assembly at its Filton p lant. However, to take 30 percent of the
work involved in the program, British Aerospace must invest over 250 million
pounds in the project in the near future. Furthermore, from the standpoint of
efficiency, it would seem preferabte to maintain the present areas of specializa-
tion within the Airbus Industrie gL~up, that is, assembly opex~ations at Toulouse
and the fabrication of the flying surfaces in Great Britain.
Essentially, the currE�nt talks on the A 320 revolve about the availability of the
engines and the payload-to-total weight ratio. Exchanges of views are continuing
between Airbus Industrie and the airlines. The carriers, however, are manifesting
a certain reserve attributable to current difficulties in the air transport
_ situation.
D1r Fiterman's visit to London was discussed at the 30 July meeting of the Council
of Niinisters. The communique issued at the conclusion of that meeting states that
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Mr Fiterman "is gratified to report that the joint intent of developing European
cooperation in the field of aeronautics was confirmed and the importance of the
150-passenqer A 320 construction project, to which he attaches great interest~ was
noted. ~he industrialists concerned wil~ be invited to submit without delay the
necessary detailec~ proposals in this matter."
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FIRST A 310 NEARS COMPLETION, A 300 SALES REACH 150
Paris AIR & COSMOS in French 29 Aug 81 p 20
~Article by J.M.~
~Text~ The roll-out of the B 767 in Seattle (see preceding pages), which will be
- in the air in a few weeks, prompts an examination o~ the status of its competitor,
Airbus Industrie's A 310.
The final assembly of the first A 310 is now in progress at Toulouse (the AERO-
SPATIALE PLANT at Saint-Martin). The first sections of the fuselage, as we know,
arrived at Toulouse, fully equipped as a"Super Guppy," on 9 May (forward section
13-14 from VFW ~Vereiniqte Flugtechnische Werke~), on 15 May (center section 15-21
fabricated by MBB ~Messerschmitt-B~ldow-Blohm~ and AEROSFATIALE ~National Indus-
trial A~rospace Company~ at Saint-Nazaire and Nantes), and on 29 June (rear sec-
tion from MBB). Their assembly with sections 11 (cockpit) and 12, fabricated at
_ Toulouse and Nantes, commenced immediately. By the beginning of July, the fuse-
lage of the first A 310 had neared completion ~t Saint-Martin. The horizontal
tail unit has just been put into place. The flying surfaces, the.first set of
spars for which left Dritish Aerospace's Chester plant on 17 May for.VFW's Bremen
plant to be equipped there with its moving elements (fabricated in Germany, Bel-
gium, France and the Low Countries), has been shipped to Toulouse in the last few
days and will be joined to the fuselage during September. The vertical stabilizer
and the landing gear (delivered by Messier-Hispano-Bugatti) will be put in place
in Octobet, and the plane will then be visible as a whole, while its final Qquip-
ment and test instrumentation array is being installed. After checking out all
its systems, it will be ready for roll-out (end o� October), its first flight ~
still being scheduled for the end of March or the very beginning of April. Prior
vibration tests will have begun around mid-December.
The fabrication of the following planes is also well advanced: the second proto-
type goes into its final assembly stage at the end of this month, that of the
joining of the various fuselage sections, the last of which is to be delivered
in October. The flying surface spars for this plane left Chester for Bremen on
22 July and the complete wing is to arrive in Toulouse on 1 November. This second
A 310 will fly by the end of April 1982, thus some weeks after the first A 310;
the third A 310 is to fly by the end of July.
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TYie first operational tests of the flight controls and of the landing gear will
be made on the general test bench at Toulouse, which has already been used for the
A 300 and which will be used subsequently for the A 300-600.
In view of the decision announced by Kuwait Airways in July to modify its previous
order for 11 A 310's with Pratt and Whitney engines by "transforming" three of
these A 310's in as many A 300 C4-600 (convertible version), Airbus Industrie, ~
on 31 July, reported the sale of 153 A 310's (79 Eirm orders and 74 options) to
11 companies. Three of these companies (Air France, Lufthansa and Kuwait Airways)
have ordered A 300's as well as A 310's.
- Middle East Airlines, whose orders have remained entirely in suspense, could not
be included in the official list of orders published by Airbus Industrie, since,
although the decision in principle was made to purchase 19 A 310's (5 + 14), the
signature of the contracts has been delayed until the end of September; which,
however, did not keep Pratt and Whitney from announcing on 7 August an order from
MEA for the engines necessary to equip these planes.... Potentially, therefore,
the A 310 has been chosen by 12 carriers, totaling 172 A 310 orders (84~+ 88).
Pratt and Whitney has been chosen by six of these carriers, representing a total
of 65 planes (32 + 33) to be so equipped. All the rest will be equipped with
General Electric CF6-80A engines.
As regards the A 300, two planes were delivered on 24 July: one on 24 July to
Malaysian Airline System (fourth A 300 B4-200), the other on 29 July ~as pub-
lished~ to Olympic Airways (sixth A 300 B4-100). As of 31 July 146 A 300's (100
type B4's, 46 type B2's) had been delivered to 28 airl.ine companies..
The 150th Airbus will be delivered in the very near future.
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