Airbus A300: The European Jet That Challenged Boeing's Air Supremacy

Engines turn or passengers swim - my biggest take away.

Frank Borman of Eastern Airlines... Frank Borman Aviator and test pilot... The Frank Borman who spent Christmas 1968 orbiting the moon, he knew about flying machines 😁

I appreciate the Business Blaze plug. It's nice to know Simon's other personalities know about one another

Simon- “we keep our promises” Also Simon- “I’ll probably forget to leave the link down below so just search it”

Fish Psychiatrist: It's okay fish, flying whales aren't real, they can't hurt you. Airbus Beluga: 17:35

I need to see a Megaprojects video on the Airbus Beluga now :)

A-10 Warthog would be amazing, so many interesting facts about that self propelled canon of the sky

“...For broken promises, see my other channel, Business Blaze.” 😂

I would love to see you cover the A-10 Warthog. A cannon too big to fly, with enough recoil to stall the aircraft, and still one of the toughest airplanes ever produced.

Well done. Very interesting story. No question, I enjoy this more than TV.

Well, Airbus did last longer than Eastern Airlines, so there is that. Plus, Airbus has never tried to fly to the ISS. . .and missed.

To your credit: For a native english speaker you did remarkably well pronouncing Arbeitsgemeinschaft ;)

Airbus is great, as is Bombardier, creator of the excellent A220. Respect from the US

Having built airbus carbon parts on American soil and ironically under the same roof as Boeing. Both companies are top notch neat part of my life building 53 foot carbon parts that will be around for years and years. Eventually machines replaced hand lay up of the big parts

"Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim" haha

Thanks for the video. Nice to have the reason Britain dropped out so clearly told, the reasons I had heard never really answered the question adequately.

Thank you for covering this.

I'd love to see a Megaprojects episode on the Airbus A-380. There are other programs on that plane but I really like how your team strikes a balance with run time, pacing and wit to make episodes long enough to be informative while keeping them short enough to remain entertaining.

0:50 - Chapter 1 - A vested interest 4:15 - Chapter 2 - Specification & development 9:05 - Chapter 3 - Putting the damn thing together 11:30 - Chapter 4 - A rocky start 13:20 - Chapter 5 - Etops 15:30 - Chapter 6 - Success

Just one slight clarification - Airbus bought 2 Super Guppy's from Aero-Space Lines, as well as a license to build 2 more, for which they acquired 2 (or possibly 3, sources vary!) StratoLiners as donor fuselages - these were built in Toulouse, and flew with Airbus until they were replaced by the A300B-608SAT (later known as Beluga). Of these 4 machines, one is flying for NASA, 2 are on display at Toulouse and Hamburg, and one was on display at Bruntingthorpe in the UK, but was moved to be scrapped in November 2020.