Not only does a majority of Airbus' business not come from sales in the US market, but the company also has a global ...

Phil Cooke—flightlineimages.com With the Airbus A380 ... do help slow the A380—but not by much. In fact, unlike the thrust reversers on most airliners, including the Boeing 747 jumbo, they ...

You'd be hard-pressed to forget a ride on the Airbus A380 ... 5,920 square feet, the A380 can accommodate 199 more seats than the world's second-largest aircraft, Boeing's 747-8.

But he adds that if they’d done everything on an assembly ... year, Airbus, for the first time, is set to deliver more airplanes than Boeing. The U.S. company maintains that the A380 will ...

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