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How Airbus Took Off

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74 points JumpCrisscross | 1 comments | 09 Nov 25 01:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.221s | source
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ma2rten ◴[09 Nov 25 05:14 UTC] No.45863098[source]▶
Europe is quite conservative, in the sense that they would not invest billions into an unproven venture. It makes sense that it would excel at an industry that requires putting safety above everything.
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nrhrjrjrjtntbt ◴[09 Nov 25 05:50 UTC] No.45863262[source]▶
The article says they did a lot of customer research and even lobbying, leading to fuel efficiency focus and reduced size, and sticking the finger up to various offended European countries (not taking delegates to US, eschewing RR engines). This seems like savvy being sustained over decades. It must be cultural.
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eastbound ◴[09 Nov 25 06:51 UTC] No.45863487[source]▶
> and reduced size

After launching, then dropping, the A380. Perhaps they didn’t do enough customer interviews there.

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1. p_l ◴[09 Nov 25 07:49 UTC] No.45863726[source]▶
When A380 started, and even when it was delivered first, the answers to "what will be the preferred form of airline transport network organisation, in detail" was not yet fully answered.

And A380 simultaneously served as base (in many critical areas) for the quite quickly made A350 et al