Originally Posted by
The Lev
- A300 - first wide body twin jet (and began incorporating carbon fibre)
- A320 - first fly by wire commercial aircraft
- A330/340 - first basically common design to be able to use two or four engines depending on the customer's desired mission profile (at a time before ETOPS and very large high-powered engines could accomplish the mission)
- Pioneered common type rating
- Oh and then there was their aircraft called Concorde that was made by Airbus' predec4essor companies
I guess he forgot about those little incremental improvements lol but when someone has their mind made up about something they often don't let the facts get in the way.
Airbus doesn't seem to get in their own way the same way that Boeing has and if they had a more reliable engine supply I expect their delivery numbers would be even higher which would give them an even larger share of the global install base.