duane
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Date: April 27, 2005 11:54AM
oooh.....
GordieOz
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Date: April 27, 2005 01:00PM
Wait 'n' see if it can create an 'on time' and reliability record like the 747, going strong since the late 60's!
Anonymous
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Date: April 27, 2005 01:53PM
Forgive me for being underwhelmed: it's just another aeroplane and, like many others, cost the poor bloody taxpayer millions before even getting off the ground.
Anthony
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Date: April 27, 2005 03:15PM
Actually it cost the British, German , and French taxpayers BILLIONS. They payed a third of the $13 billion development cost.
Black_Trans_Am
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Date: April 27, 2005 03:40PM
Airbus is doomed !!
Anonymous
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Date: April 27, 2005 03:45PM
YAWN!
Anonymous
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Date: April 27, 2005 05:15PM
yeah, well... it certainly is BIG...
scheich
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Date: April 27, 2005 06:30PM
if its so big.. then why is this pic so small??
Anthony
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Date: April 27, 2005 06:38PM
Europe has a history of developing big grandstanding projects that make no commerical sense. Case in point: the Concorde, an interesting technical feat with no economic logic. It was a huge fiancial failure. Boeing determined that the future of air travel is the more convenient point to point rather than huge hubs where everyone has to reboard a flight to their acutal destination. So Boeing, being a profit driven free enterprise company, would not risk billions to develop a national pride symbol. Only Airbus, who epitomize corporate welfare and had their hands out to the European taxpayers, can afford to take such risks. Beoing is developing a smaller fuel efficient aircraft called the Dreamliner. Now Airbus wants billions more from the European taxpayers so they can develop an answer to Boeings Dreamliner.
Black_Trans_Am
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Date: April 27, 2005 10:05PM
Take it easy Annthony Boeing and many other major aviation and defense firms get plenty of your/our tax dollars in a wide variety of ways. Corporate welfare is alive and well in the U.S. It ain't all market driven.
Both companies will do fine.
Anonymous
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Date: April 27, 2005 10:25PM
I know they are not for the same use.. But what about the C5, SR71 Black Bird. F17 and up comming F18? All more amazing then that waste.
Anonymous
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Date: April 28, 2005 02:54AM
do they really need all those people to ride on just one plane?
Anonymous
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Date: April 28, 2005 03:52AM
How many hubs around the world will be able to handle such a large aircraft? It's tough enough to taxi and dock a 747. How long is the runway going to have to be for this plane's takeoff roll?
Anonymous
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Date: April 28, 2005 03:59AM
I doubt Airbus will ever come close to achieving the same standards of passenger safety, durability, reliability, and cost efficiency as the 747 has for more than 35 years. The latest 747-400 is the benchmark of commercial aviation.
Anthony
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Date: April 28, 2005 04:40AM
In the 1980's, Airbus gained a foothold in the North American airline market by bribing Canadian officials for the government owned Air Canada with $20 million. Air Canada then placed a huge order for Airbus planes. Boeing had to shut down a parts production plant in Canada because of the lost orders. Many skilled Canadians lost their jobs.
Since about year 2000, Airbus has consistently underbid Boeing on aircraft bids until the industry was basically unprofitable. Airbus can afford to do this because they are subsidized by European governments. They can always drop their margin lower than Boeing. The United States is finally taking the matter to the World Trade Organization. Yes Boeing gets government defense contracts. How is that the same as getting free unrepayable loans from the government?
Black_Trans_Am
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Date: April 28, 2005 12:28PM
Damn crooked Canadians foiled us again!
Anonymous
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Date: May 16, 2005 01:45PM
This Canadian says airbus is absolute fucking junk! If the computers fail in any airbus planes your dead.No hydraulic back-up whatsoever.Boeing rules and any of you fruitcake europeans dont know fuck all if you like airbus planes.PS,the best company(boeing)still puts cables&hydraulics in so if your pentium crashes your not fishfood
Anonymous
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Date: September 20, 2005 07:26PM
oh my god I am very impressed...
Anonymous
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Date: November 09, 2005 08:39AM
true europeans do develop non profit tax burdens take when england developed the U.S for example had to cut it off
Anonymous
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Date: November 09, 2005 11:51PM
When did England develop the US as a tax burden, 2317, and what did they cut off?
Anonymous
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Date: March 14, 2006 01:59PM
Anyway, Long Live EUROPE, CANADA, AFRICA, ASIA, the MIDDLE-EAST, RUSSIA, etc....We're all fed up with the Teenage, overexcited, self-centred -Mix-of-Everyone-Else , ungrateful ones...
LEARN TO FOCUS ON YOURSELVES. STOP TAKING THE PISS. YOU'RE A MIX OF HE MAJORITY OF THE WORLD, REMEMBER IT, HONOUR IT !!
