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I’m sorry can you detail? I thought Airbus started with the Concorde, the project of UE willing to do something industrial and inspiring together to increase o

I’m sorry can you detail? I thought Airbus started with the Concorde, the project of UE willing to do something industrial and inspiring together to increase our pride, interdependence and more interestingly our engineering skills. The Concord itself failed as a market but the skills/organizations we developed resulted in Airbus/EADS and their civil planes, in which the acquisition of smaller companies was a mere tool participating to a grand scheme decided by Europe. Are you suggesting that this storytelling is rather reversed, and that Airbus was the result of a natural, organic merge of several companies?

mulmen 7y ago
I'm not an Airbus historian but a quick scan of the Wikipedia page[1] suggests that at least some of your understanding is incorrect. As far as I can tell Airbus started as a consortium of European aerospace manufacturers to allow them to compete with US manufacturers. Several of the cooperating companies that became Airbus such as VFW-Fokker and Aérospatiale were themselves the result of mergers. The history of mergers at Airbus doesn't look much different from that of Boeing. Concorde was one of the first designs but Airbus was not created specifically to build it. It appears Airbus was instead created to build what the industry called an "airbus" which seems to mean "airliner". > Are you suggesting that this storytelling is rather reversed, and that Airbus was the result of a natural, organic merge of several companies? Yes, it appears that Airbus is the result of a natural, organic merge of several companies. Over many years and many layers. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Airbus#Origins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Airbus#Origins