Airbus A380: Superjumbo of the 21st Century

About this book

Poised for takeoff on that hot morning in April 2005 the Airbus A380 had the purposeful powerful presence of a giant predatory bird. With its enormous gulled wings imperiously tall tail and broad domed forepeak it looked ready to take on the world. And along the way it has had plenty of supportersand critics. No civil airliner since the supersonic Concorde has aroused such emotion such fascination and such cause clbre. To a confident Airbus and the thousands of awestruck workers who cheered it into that cloudless sky over Toulouse it means so much more. The European company has been transformed under the broad wings of this incredible project into a single corporate entityfrom a loose consortium into a new more dynamic force to challenge its worthy adversary Boeing in every market sector.