Airbus did not 1 to 1 copy Boeing. It was a completely new plane and with the Airbus A320 they introduced actually innovative things, like fly by wire. Airbus

Airbus did not 1 to 1 copy Boeing. It was a completely new plane and with the Airbus A320 they introduced actually innovative things, like fly by wire. Airbus was also not created from thin air, it was a merger of many aerospace companies.