Word: airbuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other industry are there such large international combines?or so much high-level politicking. When he visited Jimmy Carter last June, British Prime Minister James Callaghan discussed an Anglo-American aviation linkup. British Aerospace, a nationalized collection of airframe and weapon makers, is being courted by the European Airbus consortium and Boeing. As a start, Boeing wants British Aerospace to make the wings for its planned narrow-bodied, 150-passenger...
...inferior to U.S. craft. France and Britain have been the worst offenders, saddling Air France and British Airways with money losers from the Caravelle to the Concorde. The European carriers now claim that they are free to pick the best jet. The problem is that the Boeing 767 and Airbus 310 are so close in price and performance that the Europeans?and the dozens of Asian and African airlines associated with them in sales and maintenance setups?may decide to buy the local product...
Barring other dropouts, the new generation will get going in 1981 and 1982, when three manufacturers plan to deliver planes of roughly the same capacity (197 to 230 passengers) and range (2,300 to 3,680 miles). They are the Boeing 767, the Airbus A310-200 and the Lockheed L1011-400. To save weight and fuel, the Boeing and the Airbus will have two engines, the Lockheed "Dash 400" three...
...Airbus A310 is derived from the larger and highly successful A300, the first twin-engine and wide-bodied jet. The Dash 400 is a slightly smaller version of the Lockheed TriStar 1011. Lockheed is also experimenting with a long-range model, the Dash 500, which would fly 6,100 miles at one stretch...
...interiors of the Airbus A310 and Lockheed Dash 400 will be similar to the 767. In the Airbus, economy seating will be arranged in a two-four-two configuration; the Dash 400 will use nine-abreast seating with two aisles...