Airbus, the true story

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In the space of thirty-five years, Airbus has developed a complete family of commercial aircraft, with capacity ranging from 100 to 550 seats, and has succeeded in capturing half of the world market, to rech parity with Boeing. France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Spain share the credit for this technical, commercial and industrial success. As a European enterprise par excellence, Airbus has proven the truth of "strength in numbers". In this well-documented and abundantly illustrated volume retracing the development of civil aeronautics since World War II, recognised aviation author Pierre Sparaco explores each phase in detail, revealing the near misses and dead-ends, the ins and outs of cutthroat rivalries, transatlantic clashes, daring strategies, alliances and misalliances, but the determined focus that led to the rise of Airbus, from the first struggling projects, to the imposing A380.