putzmeister
18-01-2009, 15:33
Når ble de første planene lagt for a danne Airbus? Hvem var initiativtakeren for oppstart av dette felles europeiske sammarbeidet.
Det var jo mange europeiske flyprodusenter som forsvant i løpet av -50, -60 og -70 tallet. Hadde "etterkommerene" av disse produsentene en finger med i spillet på tvers av landegrensene? Her var det vel my ekspertise å hente. Hvorfor satset de på et såpass stort fly først?
Fra Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus
History
Airbus Industrie began as a consortium of European aviation firms to compete with American companies such as Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, and Lockheed.
While many European aircraft were innovative, even the most successful had small production runs.[5] In 1991, Jean Pierson, then CEO and Managing Director of Airbus Industrie, described a number of factors which explained the dominant position of American aircraft manufacturers: the land mass of the United States made air transport the favoured mode of travel; a 1942 Anglo-American agreement entrusted transport aircraft production to the US; and World War II had left America with "a profitable, vigorous, powerful and structured aeronautical industry."[5]
In the mid-1960s, tentative negotiations commenced regarding a European collaborative approach. Individual aircraft companies had already envisaged such a requirement; in 1959 Hawker Siddeley had advertised an "Airbus" version of the Armstrong Whitworth AW.660 Argosy, which would "be able to lift as many as 126 passengers on ultra short routes at a direct operating cost of 2d. per seat mile."[6] However, European aircraft manufacturers were aware of the risks of such a development and began to accept, along with their governments, that collaboration was required to develop such an aircraft and to compete with the more powerful US manufacturers. At the 1965 Paris Air Show major European airlines informally discussed their requirements for a new "airbus" capable of transporting 100 or more passengers over short to medium distances at a low cost. [7] The same year Hawker Siddeley (at the urging of the UK government) teamed with Breguet and Nord to study airbus designs. The Hawker Siddeley/Breguet/Nord groups HBN 100 became the basis for the continuation of the project. By 1966 the partners were Sud Aviation (France), Arbeitsgemeinschaft Airbus, later Deutsche Airbus (Germany) and Hawker Siddeley (UK).[7] A request for funding was made to the three governments in October 1966.[7]
Airbus A300B4-600RBy early 1967 the "A300" label began to be applied and the proposal developed into a 320 seat, twin engined airliner.[7] On 25 July 1967 the three governments agreed to proceed to the definition stage with the mission statement:
“ "For the purpose of strengthening European co-operation in the field of aviation technology and thereby promoting economic and technological progress in Europe, to take appropriate measures for the joint development and production of an airbus."[7] ”