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Airbus : the true story

In the space of thrity-five years, Airbus has developed a complete family of commercial aircraft, with capacity ranging from 100-560 seats, and has succeeded in capturing half of the world's market to reach 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, recognized 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 and daring strategies, alliances and misalliances, but above all the determined focus that led to the rise of Airbus, from the first struggling projects to the imposing A380.

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