It's a little known fact that the new Airbus A380 superjumbo aircraft makes heavy use of RFID tagging to enable the electronic monitoring of parts on the plane and speed up their maintenance and replacement. RFID has taken off in the past year or two in a variety of e-business applications, many of them devoted to the tracking of various inventory items and maintenance parts.InformationWeek > RFID, radio-frequency identification chips, Airbus, aircraft, jet airliner, FedEx, aircraft maintenance > Airbus Delivers Its RFID-Enabled, Next-Generation Aircraft > January 19, 2005