Airbus scurried to get the successful test flight completed before the event".You are not just building the A350, you are building the future of Airbus", a higher-up told his team in an exalted moment today.
Meanwhile, in yesterday's edition of the House of Lords Hansard, the former Defence Minister John Gilbert is recorded as having said that the A440M military airbus is "a complete, absolute banking disaster…" only he did not quite say 'banking', if you get my drift.
Audio recordings recovered from the Germanwings Airbus A320, which crashed on Tuesday, killing all 150 on board, suggest one pilot was outside the cockpit and unable to get back in, despite banging on the door from the outside, the New York Times has reported.
"They are not going to go to Airbus, whose plane is not going to be ready until 2013".
Even as Bombardier seeks to break the Boeing-Airbus duopoly on planes of the next size up, the duopoly it has itself enjoyed with Embraer of Brazil on regional jets is being challenged by rivals from Japan, Russia and China.As for Bombardier's rail division, the source of around half its annual revenues of $20 billion in 2014, attempts to improve profitability have not got far.
"Airbus have pushed us all the way but I think, over the 34 games, we've been the best team".
Henceforth Airbus will have three, private-sector, owners: DASA/CASA, with 42.1%; Aerospatiale Matra, with 37.9%; and BAe, with 20%.
[C4.] Airports Prepare for New Airbus Airports around the world have concerns about the arrival of the Airbus A380.
decision proves, once and for all, that European governments have been tilting the playing field in Airbus's favor.
We have seen Boeing doing follow ups and Airbus doing follow ups… they are looking at startups that will benefit the entire community".
