Guided tour through the first Airbus - The A300

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Correction: At 11:00 I mentioned that they used metric measurements to appeal to the American market, but I meant to say they used imperial measurements.

[@Calebs_Aviation]

I was going to say that sounded odd to me! That would be why! 😂

[@SharonM-q8t]

eh are u joking???

[@davidyoung9561]

I was going to say because the US have been in the mindset of using imperial measurements.

[@cndam]

I thoroughly enjoy every video of yours. Very informative with great footage.

[@michaelbujaki2462]

You also mentioned that Boeing doesn't get a lot of help from the government. That one didn't age quite so well.

[@turbofanlover]

When I was 8 years old in 1976, my family went on a big oversees trip from our home in Canada and visited relatives in Germany. While there, we took a domestic Lufthansa flight on this new fangled "airbus" that had twin aisles and only two engines. Boeing ruled the skies at that time, and none of us were even aware that these planes existed before the trip. Airbus has certainly come a very long way since then. Excellent vid. Thanks again.

[@pagmonreal]

Hi turbo!

[@Jaxymann]

I think it’s no overstatement to say that the A300 is one of the most important aircraft in history. The wide-body fuselage gave it increased capacity over older aircraft & equal to that of the tri-jets, but the use of two engines instead of 3 or 4 gave it unparalleled fuel efficiency and lower operating & maintenance costs over the competition, in tandem with advanced technology and materials engineering that made it almost singlehandedly revolutionised air travel and pioneered Europe as a leader in aircraft design in an industry that was entirely dominated by American companies at the time.

[@Snaproll47518]

A300B4-103 to A300F4-622R over 42-years. This aircraft was the center piece of my aviation career. It still hauls freight and probably will for another 15 years.

[@Theflyingfiddler]

Awesome tour! I have flown the A320 and now fly the A330…great aircraft.

[@wakeupcall2665]

My first flight on a commercial airliner was on a Lufthansa A310-300 in 1985, from DUS to FRA and onwards to SFO in a Mix 747-200. I was in awe! Then, in the early 90s I started as flight attendant at Lufthansa, and I was put on the A300/747 fleet. I loved working on them as crew, the A310s even more so. They did most of the Middle Eastern destinations, NBO and MRU, DUS and MUC to JFK and also domestic flights connecting FRA with DUS/MUC/HAM/STR/CGN and European destinations. What a blast a flight was with 270 passengers on a FRA-ZRH flight with meal service in Business Class and a drink service in Economy, with a flight time of 24 minutes. Good times, and time flew by so fast. Now, over thirty years later all that remains are the great memories. I hung up the sky suite for good now. Flying these days is not what it used to be. Thumbs up for the great Co;tents!

[@gani999]

The actual A300B prototype was rotting away in a field in Toulouse till a few years ago. Airbus decided to scrap this historic prototype, and decided to spend the money on restoring .....a JU 52 instead. This when there were at least three airworthy examples of the JU 52 in existence elsewhere. Such an unforgivable crime!

[@sunscreenman6965]

Why would they feel the need to scrap something that started their company

[@KapiteinKrentebol]

@@sunscreenman6965Maybe the same reason videogame companies lose the sourcecode of their games.

[@AuberaunPsychology]

It had Mossads fingerprints in it

[@stevenmacdonald9619]

Thank you for this nostalgia. The Airbus A300B was the very first aircraft I flew as a passenger, in 1981

[@jasongarufi8187]

Thanks for the great tour of the A300, another aviation museum to visit!

[@Polecat54941]

My dad was sales director for the A300 in the 70's and as a child we would get a ride down the taxi ways on the test A300's in this livery at the factory in Toulouse Blagnac airport so cool seeing it again!

[@alasdairmacmillan5359]

Flew many times on SAA's A-300s between Joburg and Cape Town while at university. Lovely plane... and countless times on Thai between Yangon and Bangkok...thank you for your analysis

[@arivantart7944]

one of the designer of the aircraft is B.J. Habibie, The 3rd President of The Republic of Indonesia. he really inspires young generation to study aircraft engineering in Indonesia.

[@user-lr6hw4dq4t]

Beneran bang?

[@Robochop-vz3qm]

I used to love the A300B TAA used in the early 80s, I was only a teenager but loved seeing it approach or depart Coolangatta. It was a marvel.🇦🇺

[@christopherholloway8153]

The first Airbus? Wow. I love your videos, Paul. They are always such a great blend of basic facts combined with really interesting trivia. I thought I was a well-read aircraft historian, but you always manage to have a couple things in each video that I never knew about an airplane. Keep up the good work - you are really good at this! 👍👍

[@johnt.4947]

I concur!

[@Skyisnotalimit]

Had a 3.5 hour ride in a A300 back in 1998, Arlanda to Rhodes in Greece, and back home after 2 beautiful weeks in the sun with my girlfriend. It was quite good.

[@RK-kn1ud]

Can't wait for the guided tour through the X-Wing!

[@user-tn1vc1xz5d]

Always makes my day to see another of your vids. Thanks always for the work you put in for our pleasure 🙏 ☺

[@robertoalvarez3533]

I flew in one of Eastern’s when I was a kid… nice memories of ir.

[@danielversion1.035]

Very cool Paul! Nice shots of the Crusader and Draken too!

[@coriscotupi]

In 1973 I attended an airshow in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where the A300 prototype was displayed. It seemed then somewhat odd, such a large airliner with only two engines. Little did I know then that in a few years this would become the norm, in the name of economy. Also at the show were other aviation icons such as the Vulcan bomber, the Harrier "jumpjet", the C5 Galaxy and Bob Hoover doing aerobatics with _both engines_ shut down in his Shrike Commander.

[@Ben-xe8ps]

The A300 was the first wide body aircraft that I ever travelled on, Early 70's Air France CDG to LHR. The 8 abreast 2 X 4 X 2 Y class configuration was standard. In Europe the holiday charter airlines adopted a 3 X 3 X 3 high density configuration. It was not until the 1990's that certain scheduled airlines, AF for example, changed to 3 X 3 X 3 for their intra-European economy class product retaining the 2 X 4 X 2 layout for European business class. The seats referred to as Business Class seats at around 9.49 in the video were of course First Class, not Business Class, seats as Business Class did not exist back in the 1970's.

[@rogerhargreaves2272]

Amazing to see through the acrylic floor.

[@ianstewartorr8455]

I flew Toronto to Calgary on the A 330 in 1993 it was good greetings from Scotland thanks 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@auntbarbara5576]

This is wonderful Paul, thank you for sharing this adventure and all you bring to us. Very apprecuated. Love from New York :)

[@anthonysantiago1999]

Good stuff. I really like how they showcase the A300 with Glass floors.

[@captjfloyd]

Great video! I fly the A300-600F for Fedex and it's pretty much an entirely different beast from the A300B. Iconic airplane for sure!

[@sylviaelse5086]

A flew on A300s a number of times. My main memory is of the Air France cabin crew trying to finish getting the cabin ready for landing as we crossed the Heathrow Airport perimeter.

[@keithammleter3824]

At 6:17 Paul states that not having engines at the tail allowed the wings to be moved further forward and that allows a smaller vertical stabiliser. This needs some explanation. Not having engines at the tail moves the centre of gravity forward and thus requires the centre of lift to be moved forward. Just moving the wings forward moves the wing drag forward, which decreases yaw stability and thereby would normally need a larger tail/stabiliser. What is important is that the further forward you have the engines the greater the stability, as this imparts more of a pulling of the aircraft along as compared to pushing it. In fact airliners with tail-mounted engines are inherently unstable and require an automatic yaw-damper system - a system that detects yaw (and pitching) by means of accelerometers or gyros and automatically moves control surfaces to retard it. In the A300, the engines aren't simply on pods below the wings (which would be of neutral effect on stability), they are well forward of the wings - this significantly enhances stability and thus allows a smaller tail. It is helped to some degree by the use of a supercritical wing, which moves the drag moment towards the trailing edge of the wing instead of near the leading edge of the wing as in a standard airfoil. The engines are thus towing the drag and this makes for good stability.

[@thomasburke7995]

Was a loadmaster for the purple/orange.. theses airframes were very nose heavy.. even when you loaded about 25k lbs or 14,000 kilograms in the aft section we still had issues keeping the wieght and balance on center.

[@whatever8282828]

I understand you have prior permission from the museum, but it is fun to see videos from across the cordoned-off ropes that most guests must observe.

[@ivanviera4773]

Incredible this its the plane that began Airbus journey to become a huge plane manufacter.

[@michaelcosta3098]

I remember when Eastern received the four A-300's. I got to fly on one out of Newark (EWR)!

[@belu-father9262]

ME LIKE A300. AND PAUL STEWART. no joke I've seen like 20 of your vids in the past 2 days

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Haha enjoy :)

[@katout75]

FWIW, the first glass cockpit for Airbus was the A310 which was a derivative variant for the A300

[@Itapirkanmaa2]

There is a rare variant A300-200FFCC (1983) which was the first widebody airliner in the world with a 2-pilot cockpit. Two were bought by Finnair, out of which one is still actively flying in Iran.

[@skavenblight]

At that time FFCC was ever called "Garuda Cockpit" because it was idea of Garuda Indonesia's director at that time. Mr. Wiweko Soepono. He worked with Airbus to develop two-crew widebody cockpit and Garuda Indonesia was the launch customer for the FFCC variant in January 1982

[@Itapirkanmaa2]

@@skavenblight Yes the Finnair pilots had to travel to Indonesia for their simulator training.

[@jgtripreports6556]

Fantastic tour of this Aircraft. It's sad that this aircraft is more in a museum or in storage as in service. Looking forward to see more of your channel.😃✈️🌎

[@samarch2189]

Excellent video. I have never seen a complete tour of an A300 before. Though I do disagree with you when you said the A330 was a development of the A300. I would argue that the A330 & A340 are derivatives of the same aircraft, but the A300 is totally separate from the latter only sharing the twin layout and fuselage cross-section. Great video nonetheless!

[@12345fowler]

So basically you agree with him. You said it was a derivative, he said it was a developpment. Quite the same thing IMO.

[@evaluateanalysis7974]

@@12345fowler IMO a development would be more-or-less the same aircraft - for example the same wing and the same fuselage but with a plug. A derivative would be a different aircraft but with some ideas carried over. The twin-jet, wide body, two-aisle concept was carried over from the A300 to the A330, but the A330 has a much bigger wing with a different aspect ratio and the fuselage is much longer. There are 3 engine options rather than one. It is fly-by-wire with a glass cockpit.

[@12345fowler]

@@evaluateanalysis7974 Well derivatives are usually variants within the same design, (think a later A330-200 from the original A330-300) and there is nothing semantically that prevent a developpment to be completely a new design vs an old one. Saying the A330 was developped from the A300 maybe be far more correct than to say it was a derivative. Like the word implies, a developpment only has to be linked in some way to the old design, and this may be argued in the case of the A330/A340 as the fuselage section was kept the same. So the guy you are trying to correct actually is more correct than you.

[@evaluateanalysis7974]

@@12345fowler He's being subtle.

[@samarch2189]

@@12345fowler No, I said the A330 & A340 are derivatives of each other. The A300 is a totally separate aircraft from those two.

[@TenorCantusFirmus]

On one hand, this is THE modern plane, because almost all of the following jetliners since produced has followed its general structural plan. On the other end, it's sort of what killed planespotting, since everything by now looks like a close A300 copy... A plane so efficient, every other plane has since been a variant of it.

[@philcleaver2703]

Another ripper walkthrough Paul These a/c actually break the duopoly of same routes and times that existed at the time They went through in oz couple of colour schemed TAA-Australian Airlines , Then QANTAS and one wet leased to Air New Guinea Compas airlines also had some here before they went belly up TAA A300 B 4s allowed a decent business class st up

[@DeanBNE]

The a300 was my first love. Not sure there’s much in common with the a330. I believe wing roots on a300 are raised a bit more than 330 for starters

[@TheHobartAviationFan]

Very interesting 👍

[@EpicThe112]

for the GE Cf6 it's made in France under licence from GE by Snecma which is why the Air France fleet is mostly GE/Snecma engines except for A350-900 RR and A220 PW GTF. Key difference with the early A300 and the 1985-2007 A300-600 is that the early A300 has a flight engineer while the 1985-2007 A300-600 doesn't hava flight engineer

[@donrobinson6613]

I saw the A300 prototype flying into Heathrow when I stayed with my grandparents in Isleworth in 1974.

[@jakejacobs7584]

I flew the A300-600 for a few years but never realized it was the first of the Airbus family. We called it the PIG.

[@naturallyherb]

Very cool!

[@philipberry6477]

Interesting that Airbus saw a great opportunity by introducing a wide body twin, but completely missed the mark by pushing the A-380 for long haul. By this time Boeing read the market correctly and developed the hugely successful 777 instead of looking competing with the extended B747.

[@tiadaid]

Boeing didn't design the 777 in response to the A380. In fact it was in response to the A330 & MD-11. And being last to fly gave it an unbeatable advantge. Boeing did look into what's known as the New Large Aircraft, and actually worked on an extended 747. But the NLA was stillborn, and the extended 747 failed only because the launch airlines they targeted such as Malaysia Airlines and Thai Airways hit turbulence due to the Asian Financial Crisis

[@dansullivan9353]

Is that an X wing fighter made out of Lego spotted at the 11 minute mark?

[@Mullins117]

Funny, I was actually just in this museum on the 21st of April (I live in Perth too)

[@colinlincoln3639]

I flew on a Malaysian Airlines System A300 from Singapore to Penang Malaysia back in 1983.

[@Nafeels]

To this day I still insist that the A300 could’ve been a great middle-of-the-market aircraft that would compete with the B767. In an alternate universe, the A300neo with de-rated Trent 7000 engines and winglet designs borrowed from the A330neo would be competing with B767 MAX designs. Great video! Never thought I’d see a 1st gen GE CF-6 engines without the exhaust cones protruding.

[@Nafeels]

@Phillip Banes It’s bonkers that no manufacturer other than Boeing tried with the 2-3-2 layout. I was hoping either COMAC or any other newcomer to at least hint on trying this. Always the 3-3-3 layout.

[@ericbeaulieu4663]

boeing did a great move with the 767, similar as the A300 but required only 2 pilots and glass cockpit.

[@simonm1447]

The more modern A300-600 also has a 2 man cockpit, it was introduced in the early 80s

[@leeksoup3199]

I will be visiting Aeroscopia this July, very excited for it. Any tips/advice from your visit? Did you do the Airbus factory tour also?

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Take food with you as their is no cafe! I didnt do the airbus tour.

[@sshray1115]

I loved it ❤❤❤❤❤

[@cndam]

Actually glass cockpit came before the 330. Came as a result of the 310 as the 300-600.

[@vap57]

I worked for Wardair Canada. We had both the A300 and A310 in our fleet. I never liked the A300, I found it very uncomfortable, while the A310 is one of my favourite aircraft types. Funny how I liked the 310 so much considering it was derived from the 300.

[@LAGoodz]

But essentially they have the same cabin, albeit the A310 had a shorter fuselage length. What made the A300 less comfortable? The airlines choose the seats and cabin layout. When I took the A330 or A340 you couldn’t tell much difference inside. I flew on the A300 in the 2000’s, again very little difference if the airline kept apace with cabin/seat refreshes.

[@mwat22]

​@@LAGoodz 😂 I can guess as to why it was uncomfortable, Americans and by extension Canadians were much fatter than their European counterparts and so fitting into the seats and squeezing through the isle and seats was an issue for them 😹✍️ other than that I don't hear them complaining about Boeing which has squeezed the seats even more now 😂

[@MultiSUPERLATIVO]

Amazing museum for all aviation fans. As a museologist I think it is not a well promoted space, even among aviation geeks, sadly, as Aeroscopia is the living memory of Airbus Industries.

[@matsv201]

2:40 It wasn´t really the turbofan engine that was the leap forward, but rather the high bypass engine due to it being constructed very differently to a normal low bypass engine

[@janusz4156]

50 years of Airbus A300 in 2022.

[@dennis12dec]

The aircraft operated by Air France 8969 was in 1994 involved in the hijacking in Algiers then flown to Marseille, France later to be stormed by GIGN Commandos killing 4 hijackers.

[@chrisgermann6658]

In my opinion Concorde was the first original Airbus. Great upload loved it

[@tenga3tango]

I flew in one A300 in 1982

[@BagusWidyanto_HappyIn1997]

The Airbus A300 last flew with Sempati Air. You can see their seats in 09:26

[@hilman94]

airbus must be grateful, garuda's ceo at that time, wiweko soepono, pushed airbus to upgrade into 2 crew cockpit, instead of 3, so airbus updated a300b2 into airbus a300b4 ff, and it's selling pretty well...

[@douglasunmack961]

Can’t believe they dropped RR as an engine provider and option in addition to PW and GE

[@MrJimheeren]

Wait a moment is that a Lego X-wing at 4:25. C’mon Paul. Show us more

[@christopherholloway8153]

LOL! I know, right?! The world's largest Lego X-Wing? I had to rewind the video and watch that twice!

[@mckeeganator5844]

We have a few a300F where I work and they might be the oldest planes we have

[@flyonbyya]

Not sure I ever saw one

[@marcusdamberger]

If you've seen UPS or FedEx twin engine cargo aircraft you've likely seen one. Both operators still have a large fleet of the A300-600RF freighter.

[@abdeljalillahiouel6150]

You said the plane uses metric measurements for the US market. I thought they use the imperial system there ?

[@-DC-]

A good passenger plane but a superb Freighter, tough well designed Aircraft.

[@applejacks971]

When's the video coming on that Lego looking X-Wing Fighter? 🤔🤨😊

[@jonjohnson2844]

I think the main issue for the A300 and other twin engine wides at the time was the ETOPS rules...the FAA were/are the rulers of North Atlantic air travel so would probably have been nudged to keep the 747 as the de facto trans-Atlantic aircraft even if it wasn't necessarily the suited to every destination. What routes were A300s actually doing in the 70s/80s?

[@Shadowfax-1980]

This is good , but when are we getting the tour of that giant Lego X-wing? 😉

[@BobbyGeneric145]

727 has the first super critical wing.

[@marknagle1912]

I did not get to visit tolouse it would have been awesome to do so

[@jrfsp320]

Looks a good museum, would you recommend?

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Yep

[@sanitman1488]

@ Rob G. As a retired aircraft technician for Pan American World Airways whom worked extensively on the carriers Airbus a300b4 I disagree with your assessment. Although yes it was good aircraft and served the airline well but it was not much easier to work on compared to the Boeing 747-100/200 series or DC10 .. Two aircraft operating within the same time as the a300.. In fact the best aircraft at the time ; well advanced of the Airbus , Boeing or McDonnell Douglas was the Lockheed L1011 TriStar ! A technicians dream to work on !

[@haven216]

With the amount of technology crammed into the L1011, I would've thought that it'd be harder to maintain than the other aircraft you mentioned. What made the L1011 stand out for technicians?

[@sanitman1488]

@@haven216 What made it stand out compared to a300 , 747 or DC10 ? Reliability ! 1. One way that Lockheed’s design departed from the competition was in the construction of its fuselage. Lockheed made use of metal-to-metal bonding for the fuselage. That in itself wasn’t amazing, as other manufacturers also moved from rivets to bonding. However, the Lockheed deviated from the norm by developing an adhesive so strong that a one square inch of bonding holding two straps together was enough to suspend a car into the sky. The bonding made the materials substantially stronger while extending service life and adding a ton of corrosion resistance. This was evident during the aircrafts ‘D’ check maintenance heavy service ! L1011’s were put back in service much faster than a Airbus a300 for example. 2. The L-1011 is perhaps best remembered for its advanced bespoke avionics. The AFCS (Avionic Flight Control System) list of systems was vast and included a speed control system, an inertial navigation system, a stability augmentation system, and more. Lockheed’s Direct Lift Control system was a part of the package and it is notable on its own. The DLC reduced pilot load during landings by automatically deploying spoilers. Extremely reliable avionics equipment… Remember these are the aircraft engineers whom designed and built the U2 and SR71 Blackbird ; ‘skunk works’ 3. Accessibility to components thru-out the aircraft . This was evident especially in the interior passenger cabin . Airbus was a technicians nightmare to gain access for example PSUs , window side panels/trim , storage bins etc.. Floor boards ? Airbus used at the time a cheaper lighter material woven fiberglass cloth reinforced epoxy facings honeycomb core floor panel which over time especially those placed in the aisles would wear out much faster compared to Boeing , McDonnell Douglas or Lockheed aircraft . This as well was a reliability problem with Airbus a310s as well. Lockheed had put everything into this aircraft to beat the competition but ended up almost bankrupt from the program and withdrew from commercial aircraft manufacturing!

[@tiadaid]

Since you worked on the A300B4 at Pan Am, I guess you’ve worked on this exact plane before since it was originally operated by Pan Am as N210PA.

[@sanitman1488]

@@tiadaid Yes you are correct. N210PA ‘ Clipper Dallas’ flew with Pan American until the airline ceased operations. It was leased to Sempati Air 1993 and then Airbus Industrie 1998 painted in "1st Airbus" special colours.

[@thelandofnod123]

@@sanitman1488 And as an aside, are the A300s built with SAE or metric fasteners? Thanks.

[@ishanjani9885]

This is the only airbus plane that had GE but idk why on current newer plane that GE refuse to make engine for airbus

[@QurikyBark32919]

0:23 what is that thing!?

[@jungbolosse3034]

Front part of Guppy transport aircraft

[@deltaforceshuttles3749]

I think airbus aircraft are some of the best airliners ever made / I feel like they replaced Boeing as the company of aviation optimism / I wish Boeing would be as good as it once was but airbus is just running circles around them

[@thelandofnod123]

I thought Airbus used Imperial/US Customary units. 11:14

[@brushitoff503]

Question @02:54 What is the pressure ratio difference between the By-Pass & the core? Edit, Just to say fricken epic video by the way. Cheers!

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Good question and I'm not sure to be honest. Hopefully someone else might know?

[@brushitoff503]

@@PaulStewartAviation Enter Agent Jay Z ha ha!

[@thelandofnod123]

@@brushitoff503 4.24 - 5.92 depending on the specific variant. The Trent on the 787 is about 10.8 - 11. The F414 from the Super Hornet for comparison is 0.25.

[@MaxFromSydney1]

Sorry, Paul, what were you trying to say? I was checking out the X-wing!

[@danpayne1010]

Reminds me of TAA

[@gnhansen29]

Didn't Australian/TAA/Qantas operate the A300B?

[@thelandofnod123]

I just like that KZbin wants know if it should translate your comment to English. 😂.

[@jeremypearson6852]

The media has really created an ‘us against them’ position when covering Airbus and Boeing to a point of ridiculousness. I’ve seen some comments claiming that US airlines are somehow non-American if they order Airbus planes. As a UK/US dual citizen, all I say is that airlines should order whatever aircraft fits their requirements no matter the point of origin. I think we would be more concerned if only Boeing existed given their recent issues.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Yes, look at how the protectionism has delayed progress with Boeing (and the American auto industry which up until the last few years were making awful cars.)

[@RCMasterAA]

Wait is that a Lego X-Wing? Any chance of a review of that? haha

[@johnp139]

Did that aircraft also make weird stupid noises while taxiing?

[@CrazyForCooCooPuffs]

11:10 you mean standard measurements.

[@prakashboddu2957]

Is this the real plane???

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Yep

[@johnp139]

The wings aren’t tapered…

[@Allinho2008]

just finished flying that thing recently. What a piece of "shite". Well actually decent for its time in the 1970s, but flying it today is definitely a test of ones flying skills.

[@bobalto]

Isn’t the B747 the first actual wide body made during the 60’s?!!..there was also the Tristar.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

747 first flew in 1969 but it was a quadjet so the A300 was the first widebody twin jet.

[@bobalto]

@@PaulStewartAviation Ah ok you referred to the first wide body twin jet engines. I understand. Is the tristar olso older than the A300?

[@Spingordy]

Sorry Paul, it’s not the first A300, it’s just painted that way, in reality its MSN 238, an A300-B4 that was originally built for Laker Airways. The airline ceased operations before the aircraft was completed so it went to storage after its first flight in February 1983, and was delivered to Pan Am in 1985. The aircraft was then acquired by Sempati Air in 1993, and by DHL in 1999 and flew as a freighter, before being withdrawn from service and preserved for the museum.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Correct. I said that in the video.

[@milesmoncur4276]

You look very British

[@aaronchandler2380]

at the end of the day its always been about the numbers... the A300 was reliable and cheap to fly... still is!

[@aaronchandler2380]

@@phillipbanes5484 in comparison… to 3 engines or even 767s

[@trenesdecolombiaPabloHiguita]

@@aaronchandler2380 If the A300 was cheaper to flight than the B767, it would have been sold more... or maybe the production wouldn't have stopped at 2007. B767s are still being made.

[@aaronchandler2380]

@@trenesdecolombiaPabloHiguita A300 sales started 7 years before the 767

[@trenesdecolombiaPabloHiguita]

@@aaronchandler2380 Yeah, and that means the B767 is more advanced, and therefore cheaper to flight and operate.

[@aaronchandler2380]

@@trenesdecolombiaPabloHiguita no it doesn't , The -600 is as advanced as any new 767. Both airplanes come from the same era. The A300 is an awesomely inexpensive airplane to fly. It is the original twin engine widebody.

[@rajnirvan3336]

This plane all but turned most airlines away from Trijets

[@FredBloggsTheThird]

Why did they install all these clearly modern interior elements (the bathrooms at the back) that have fittings that look brand new and totally out of place for the plane?

[@PaulStewartAviation]

I suspect that they just wanted to install something inside it and they had this interior sitting around. I'd personally rather just seen an authentic interior.

[@alexander1485]

Fiberglass

[@shanevenegashere]

yokes are better.

[@sculp_vetrov]

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[@User44721]

Noel Phillips ordered on wish😂 It’s only a joke pls don’t attack me.