Airbus A300: The European Jet That Challenged Boeing's Air Supremacy
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I appreciate the Business Blaze plug. It's nice to know Simon's other personalities know about one another
While they know about each other this Megaprojects and "sensible" channel Simon keeps the fact BB Simon has got Danny and Sam in his Prince of Persia basement from himself as "sensible" Simon would report BB Simon for unsafe practices.. 🤔
@@itarry4 Sensible Simon allegedly doesnt know about the down stairs "tenants"
@@itarry4 ALLEGEDLY
Know about one another? They are starting to bleed together
The Blaze is bleeding into the other channels, I believe this is the true or 'alpha' personality. Soon it will consume its siblings in order to feed its exponential growth.
I need to see a Megaprojects video on the Airbus Beluga now :)
Beluga XL maybe? :)
@@moritzk3004 how about both!!!!
Engines turn or passengers swim - my biggest take away.
I know. I love that. 😆
A-10 Warthog would be amazing, so many interesting facts about that self propelled canon of the sky
I’ve been asking for months, I feel like Simon is purposefully ignoring it lol
Well I can give a lead in. The Gau 8 Avenger was first started as a Mobile Mounted Anti Aircraft weapon for the US Army but it kind of turned over the truck it was mounted on. And so General Electric had this wicked gun and no place for it to go. Fact : loading Depleted Uranium onto the aircraft results in a Sub One Thousand Round load due to the weight of the round. I typically saw 950 counts and we had to remove bolt on weights from inside the nose landing gear compartment ( sometimes )
Simon- “we keep our promises”
Also Simon- “I’ll probably forget to leave the link down below so just search it”
Well when you have bazillion TH-cam Channels its no wonder :D
facts
@@JackieWelles so many channels, that Simon loses track?
" What do you mean I'm in the middle of making video #5 for a competitors channel?!?!"
"All channels are Mine!!!" Sniff... Allegedly
not those promises, he meant other ones 🤣
Fish Psychiatrist: It's okay fish, flying whales aren't real, they can't hurt you.
Airbus Beluga: 17:35
Airbus beluga? I’ve just reached the super guppy and can not stop giggling over how idiotic it looks. (How did it get off the ground?
Flying-fish psychiatrist, surely?
Look at it smile
That is the Airbus Beluga XL. Get it right.
@@1992AC this is the beluga, no one cares about the accuracy of the name, get friends
Well, Airbus did last longer than Eastern Airlines, so there is that. Plus, Airbus has never tried to fly to the ISS. . .and missed.
airbus was part of thr ETV tho and it went to the ISS multiple times
that jab, well done
I flew as a flight attendant for PAN AM and American. We used the new (at the time) A300-B4. This aircraft actually had a flight engineer. I believe the A310 did away with a 3 man cockpit crew. This was a great video. I LOVED the A300. Super comfortable and easy to do service on.
Airbus is great, as is Bombardier, creator of the excellent A220. Respect from the US
A220 is great, it joins the A400M in the exclusive club of "good looking Airbus"
A220 is kawaii
@@raitchison A340 certainly looks stunning. So does the A350, so does A330...
@@guillaumeromain6694 agreed! I preferred the a330 over its Boeing competitors too, found it quieter (yes I have NC headphones... less noise still helps though) and more comfortable for the long haul. Used to fly between Sydney/Kuala Lumpur 3-4 times every month and always tried to book A330 flights
@@jsleeio Definitely! I love the A330 as the workhorse of the industry it truly is. Much prefer it over 767 even 777...
Unsung hero the A330! would go out of my way to ensure I end up on one over the competition
One thing about the Engine Development helps the A300 Family still today: It got a better Ground clearance and could better reengined with more efficient Engines, unlike their main Competitors.
Thank you for covering this.
I'd love to see a Megaprojects episode on the Airbus A-380. There are other programs on that plane but I really like how your team strikes a balance with run time, pacing and wit to make episodes long enough to be informative while keeping them short enough to remain entertaining.
Just one slight clarification - Airbus bought 2 Super Guppy's from Aero-Space Lines, as well as a license to build 2 more, for which they acquired 2 (or possibly 3, sources vary!) StratoLiners as donor fuselages - these were built in Toulouse, and flew with Airbus until they were replaced by the A300B-608SAT (later known as Beluga).
Of these 4 machines, one is flying for NASA, 2 are on display at Toulouse and Hamburg, and one was on display at Bruntingthorpe in the UK, but was moved to be scrapped in November 2020.
The European Union didn’t come into existence until 1993 (with the implementation of the Maastricht treaty), long after the Airbus consortium was established.
what was established in 1957 was indeed the European Economic Community (Treaty of Rome), though that was the direct predecessor of the EU. So while technically named incorrectly in the video, the key point remains, that the beginnings of Airbus fell within the time of a new European customs union and close collaboration
@@TigruArdavi But when the Airbus consortium was founded, Britain wasn’t a member of the EEC (it joined in 1973, and the A300 first flew in 1972).
The A-10! it's a Megaproject to all the lives it saved
Holy crap, the writing in this video. Amazing.
As an aircraft mechanic for a major us airline, I much prefer working on the Airbus to Boeing. Nice video by the way!
Fabulous video. Full of interesting facts and the occasional well placed humour. Looking forward to your next video.
Bit of a shortcut in talking about the Beluga program. The Beluga ST was built on the A300-600R platform, that was right. But the Beluga XL, the next generation of Belugas with the smiling beluga face, is being built on the A330-200F platform (3 out of 6 are operational). Where the XT can only carry 1 wing of an A350, the XL can carry 2.
Ironically, with its high density cabin seating configuration, the A300 can carry 375 passengers.
In the 1950s and sixties, Lockheed also manufactured airliners. And they brought the L10-11 to market as a wide body alternative to the DC-10. But of course the L10-11 was really Lickheeds swan song in the airliner market. But at the time when Airbus was ramping up there were still a lot of Lockheed propliners in service. The Super Constellation and the Elecktra are the two best examples.
Always love the pictures and videos from Maho beach. Cheers!
Think it's Phuket In Thailand.
My dad worked for Eastern airlines in Miami and we flew in those first a300s and they were so far superior comfort to the current fleet that we had as a passenger
Moooooooooooooom! Business Blaze is leaking into other channels again!
16:55 Simon glosses over the fact that the very first trip in an a320 with civilian passengers, a publicity/marketing stunt, ended in it flying into a forest at the end of an airfield, resulting in the death of two children and a woman who heroically went back into the aircraft to try to save one of them.
I mean, one, that is not really relevant, the end result wasn't affected and Airbus did continue on, and two, the accident was blamed on Air France, not on Airbus anyway, so it's doubly not relevant.
@@Musikur it was its Maiden flight, that’s highly relevant
@@Kadeo-ms6qw it wasn't its maiden flight it was a display flight at the Habsheim Air Show. The aircraft was the 9th(I think) A320 to fly and had flown multiple times before it crashed.
Also, he failed to mention their propensity for the tail falling off.
@@Musikur , yes and no, I’d bet my fortune there were software modifications after that crash. The pilot fought hard to tell his story about the airplane not cooperating when he pushed the throttles forward. Automation that doesn’t work perfectly and doesn’t allow the pilot final authority to what it will do can ruin your day.
AIRBUS ORGANISATION IS IMPRESSIVE..... SO GLAD WE COULD DO SUCH THINGS IN EUROPE
"sorry if you found that video interesting" 18:53 🤣 wait what?!
According the the auto subtitles it’s “so I really hope” said quickly
The A300 set the standard and model airframe for the future. Every current wide body jet today stems from the a300 design
Perfect idea for a video. The Orient Express, the Simplon Orient Express, Arlberg Orient Express, the Vince-Simplon Orient Express and their more modern counterpart.
One has been done for The Orient Express on his Geographic site: th-cam.com/video/BtHLwjo4C3I/w-d-xo.html.
I have been campaigning for a long time for the Bar Lev Line with no success. But instead of giving up, I will be campaigning for Benban Solar Park, Aswan High Dam and of course Bar Lev Line.
Nicely done.
Actually the A300B2 and B4 had a flight engineer. The A300-600 had a two-person cockpit.
Some later B4's were definitely 2-person crew, though inital ones were not, and they were built that way, not retrofitted.
@@shebbs1 really? What year did this happen? Which airlines operated this version?
"It's not like the germans are known for that stuff." Have you ever even tried to travel with Deutsche Bahn? Do NOT expect to arrive anywhere on time. Or near time.
Yeah I had a little 'HAAAAAAAA!' at that one myself. It's been a while now since DB were known for being on time - anywhere, ever.
That happens when politicians get heavily involved with a mass transit system.
Just ask someone who works at DB in the operational branche. You would be surprisesed about the amount of political shit they have to deal with on a daily basis.
@@obelic71 As a regular visitor to Germany ( in more 'normal' times at least) you're preaching to the choir Mr Smeets & I wholeheartedly agree.
I enjoyed this episode probably more than I should.
I can now see the origin of the "free trial" marketing technique.
2:40 Still can't believe we shut down the Concorde because another aircraft lost a piece and consequentially damaged the tanks of the taking-off jet.
Retirement
On 10 April 2003, Air France and British Airways simultaneously announced they would retire Concorde later that year.[209] They cited low passenger numbers following the 25 July 2000 crash, the slump in air travel following the September 11 attacks, and rising maintenance costs: Airbus, the company that acquired Aerospatiale in 2000, had made a decision in 2003 to no longer supply replacement parts for the aircraft. Although Concorde was technologically advanced when introduced in the 1970s, 30 years later, its analogue cockpit was outdated. There had been little commercial pressure to upgrade Concorde due to a lack of competing aircraft, unlike other airliners of the same era such as the Boeing 747.[210] By its retirement, it was the last aircraft in the British Airways fleet that had a flight engineer; other aircraft, such as the modernised 747-400, had eliminated the role.
@@hurri7720 All of that copy/paste is true. However it still potentially had another decade of life in it and would have happily gone on until about 2012. It was an unfortunate combination of circumstances that ended it's use earlier.
"all you can do is take lessons from the past and take them into the future" -Simon Whistler
This should be your constant tag line. This is why I watch.
2 engine Airbus plane go burrr
2 engine Boeing plane go REEEEEE BOOM
I like that quote at the end, “all you can do is take lessons from the past into the future.”
I worked on many A330s at ASL Lemwerder, formerly MBB, in Germany. The aircraft was very well designed for easy maintenance and repair. As an Airframe Fitter, I found it much easier and less time consuming to work on than Boeing airframes. The Boeing way of assembling airframes in the 70s and 80s, had not changed much since WW2, so it was not surprising that when Airbus eventually got going, they began to mop up the sales. Sadly, the repair and overhaul base at Lemwerder was closed in 2010 with the loss of hundreds of skilled jobs. This was due to deregulation and outsourcing of maintenance by airlines. Perhaps you could make a video about the decline in European aircraft repair and overhaul companies.
The Super Guppy was an amazing aircraft. I used to see them all the time at Lindbergh Field in San Diego when I was a kid. They came to get parts for NASA from General Dynamics, who made parts of the Apollo spacecraft. You never thought the thing would get off the ground. But it does. I did not know that they were based on the Boeing 377 Metrliner. So there. I learned something today. And I haven't even had breakfast yet. Hurrah.
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The original engine option for the american A300 was the General Electric CF6-50.
Hell must not be a nice place former FAA head J Lynn Helms at the moment considering the dominance of twin jets over the likes of the 747 and A380 (quads), a by-gone technology. Twins today fly long haul across continents and over water routes including over the Pacific and Indian oceans. This has been possible thanks to plane design and engine efficiency but also the relaxing of the ETOPS rules. Currently the maximum ETOPS certification of 370mins applies to the A350.
There is so much untapped potential in Europe, so much talent. Unfortunately we have not been able to meaningfully unite/cooperate, WW1 is testament of our stupidity. Now we are facing domination by China, or worse. The story of Airbus is a rare positive tale to learn from.
I mean to be fair, I feel like everywhere is facing domination by China....
I mean Germany is a world superpower
Back not longer after the A300 was introduced I traveled on one between Joburgh and Cape Town. This was the third leg of a journey from Scotland the earlier legs had been on a Trident and a 747 and the fourth leg would be on an S-61. Travelling on the A300 it struck me how much of step forward it was. Tridents I loved, bit the 747 didn't impress me (I had been hoping for flight in a VC10) bit the A300 was fantastic step into the future.
Idk if megaprojects have to be completed projects, but I think starship definitely deserves a video. Or spacex in general. The things they do are mind blowing
The german in me laughed quite hard at "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Airbus" ...
@Megaprojects
Simon,
can you also say: "Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft" ? Yes, it is one single german word. No, we dont hate the world.
:D
Forget everything the main thing I am going to remember about this whole video is that Extended Range Twin Operations
Engines turn or passengers swim LMAO
Airbus produce some fantastic products anyone in aviation knows how good they really are 🙂
Sir I concur with you.
We operate both Boeing 737's and Airbus 320/321, and in terms of efficiency there is no competition; the Boeing is the more efficient plane. We only fly ETOPS with Boeing airplanes with good reason...the Boeing is a far more rugged and reliable aircraft...
Hold up, frank borman... I feel like I've heard that name before, isn't he an astronaut?
edit, yep, same guy
A moonwalker.
Jim Lovell said he barfed all the way to the moon...
Airbus, a true success story. I'm glad Europe still is leader in some cases.
Hilarious that whenever talking about widebody twin jets, the stock footage was of narrowbody jets.
As someone who manufactures parts for Airbus - a approve this video :D
Latest megaproject - Simon'sEpic Beard.
Really interesting video. Airbus is a great reliable company.
In addition to the Comet and Concorde, notable mentions should also include the British Trident and VC10 and the French Caravelle.
French had Dassault Mercure twin.
Hardly a mega project - only 11 were built, and they all flew with one airline in France until they were retired in favour of the A320...
The Brits, however, had the BAC 1-11.
Hold on : the head of an airline project is called 'Felix Crash 👀 ' ?
(edited to fix my mistake) His last name is Kracht, which is Dutch for power. in German better see TigruArdavi's comment.
@@autohmae respect 🙌
@@autohmae total rubbish, it is *not* the German word for power, which is 'Kraft'. 'Kracht' would, incidentally, be the 3rd person singular (or 2nd person plural) present of the verb 'krachen' which means to crack or can indeed and funny enough, also mean, depending on the prefix or adverb it goes with, to crash into sth. or (loudly) break asunder. The noun 'Krach', in turn, means noise.
@@TigruArdavi shit, you are right. It's just true in Dutch. It's a 'false friend' of the German word.
Frank Borman Biographics episode would be neat!
Thanks
Actually, what saved the A300B program was Eastern Air Lines leasing four planes and finding out really fast they were more fuel efficient than the L-1011 and DC-10 on USA transcontinental routes. And the fact that Korean Air Lines placed a big order for the plane, which in turn got other Asian airlines to start buying them.
Years ahead of its time ..
„It’s not like the Germans are known for that stuff“ Simon you should really make a Megaprojects video on the ongoing megaproject of the Deutsche Bahn being a cataclysmic clusterfuck
If you think that A350 has a 370 ETOPS rating, that was unthinkable back then when the A300 first arrived on the scene. That's 6 hours on ONE engine...... the 787 has slightly less at 330.
Speaking of the 50ies, you're forgetting Lockheed... oh and McDonnel Douglas was still just Douglas.
Well explained....Ta Muchly.
Interesting stuff. I don’t see the Concorde as a failure, I mean it had one accident that was actually caused by runway debris. It was actually ahead of its time. As a former Eastern Airlines employee, I do think it was a smart move to provide the free planes. The rest as they say is history. An expat watching in Florida.
Boeing, Douglas, Lockheed, Convair...
The Beluga tale though! 🤣👍
Lucky enough to have flown it
FAA Federal Flight Administration... nailed that acronym
One can visit a beautiful “see through” preserved A300 at the Toulouse Airport Museum
You made a mistake with the engine names for the Initial engine choices, Initially it was only the General Electric CF6 and the Pratt and Whitney JT9D available for the A300B2 and A300B4, The PW4000 Choice only came with the Arrival of the A300-600 much later in the series
@Mega Projects
I had an idea for two video's consisting of the Airbus A380 and the Panavia Tornado, as you have done one on TSR2 a lot of the tech found in that aircraft found it's way into the Tornado.
ETOPS = Extended-range Twin OPerationS = Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim.. HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I've not cackled this hard at an acronym in quite a while!!!
There was another early French-British collaboration in Jet airliners- the Sud Caravelle.
The Caravelle was mostly French, but the cockpit section was borrowed wholesale from the DeHavilland Comet through a licensing agreement. Pretty neat little plane and from a design and role standpoint was the precursor to things like the DC-9.
Absolutely correct. Shame the great Caravelle wasn't talked about.
Cmon simon! Please! From the start of this channel I have been waiting for the Airbus 380! The concept, the creation and the downfall cmoooooooooooooon
The A380 story really isn't that interesting TBH, it's large, and that's about it. It took no serious innovations compared to the A300 and A320, or the B787, it was prototyped fully in CAD which is somewhat interesting, but honestly that's about it...
Love your videos
1:37 Thats a DC-7.
Hi Simon! Great video! Could you guys consider doing one about the James Webb Telescope which is due for lunch later this year?
*launch
@@tip0019 ha! I blame autocorrect. :D
@@tip0019 I like lunch better
Bravo ending
I would love to see a video on the Snowy River Hydro Scheme in Australia.
A300 change the industry to the point where every new airliners looks like... A300.
Aircraft mechanic who currently works on A300s they're okay, 767 is nicer. But I don't hate the A300. Their distant isnt as good do to the wings/canoes.
8:22 “Pratt & Whitney”, not “Prat”
Yes, “Pratt” is the correct spelling.
I can tell you though that in the industry “Pratt and Whitney” engines are called “Pratts” by 99% of the people who own, buy, fly, and maintain these engines. I’ve got great personal experience with most of their product line dating back to the JT8D-9A and throughout they’ve been simply called “Pratts”.
I believe American Airlines was the first and only US airline to use the A300-600. They called is the A300-605R. Panam used the A310 which is the same plane just with a slightly shorter fuselage.
A few years ago I read a book on the development of Airbus. It was made clear that the actual design of the A300 was by a few people based at de Havilland that was just about to disappear. If true this was a wonderful piece of irony given what Boeing and Douglas had done to de Havilland!
at 15:00 "It's a fairly clear message there !" Mega-LOL
American's A300s were probably the most ubiquitous airplanes in the Caribbean just after American Eagle's ATRs. I miss them.
It would be cool if you covered the A380
brilliant
10:25 are you implying the German rail system is punctual? Oh boy you're wrong.
Or that the French don't love a strike..
The 2 man crew was not introduced until the A-310 and A-300-600, several years after the first versions of the A-300.
Just Frank Borman? Not "Former NASA Astronaut and Apollo 8 Commander Frank Borman." I mean it isn't relevant, but I found it interesting that a Former NASA Astronaut, and test pilot helped get Airbus' economicly untested aircraft off the ground in the US.
I appreciate Simon’s casual attitude from BB seeping into his other channels. #FreeDanny
Flew on an Airbus A300 from Germany to the US on an upper deck seat. One of the nicest planes I flew one. Also those outsize cargo planes like the Airbus Beluga are worth a video on their own either on Mega projects or Sideprojects.
SEAZNDragon, I believe you meant A380, rather than A300 ! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@flybyairplane3528 probably. I try to look up my old itinerary to confirm but it didn’t list the place. But it was an Airbus for sure and a nice place regardless.
Great aircraft to fly.
This is truly one of your best. Great topic and even better laughs. You should look into doing a megaprojects, or side projects, on Shannon Airport in Ireland. First duty free store, which gave China the idea for their special economic zones, at the time the first new town/city in Ireland in god knows how long.
Watching and listening too Simon while working on airbus products is a bit meta today
And just how influential has it been.? Panicked Boeing into building the B767 and look how many tri/quad jets are flying today.!
Frank Borman was known to have said something like 'why would I spend extra money on fuel for tri or quad jets when a twin will do the same thing for less. And they were very reliable too.!
If Boeing is going to survive, they need to fire the bean counters that have been running them into the ground and put engineers back in charge.
Until I watched this video, I had no idea how advanced and how early the A300 was.
I still remember my dad , a Boeing mechanic , laughing when he heard the name “Airbus”. It is rather lackluster and not very sexy...
I flew Eastern's A300 in that time frame, I wonder if it was on one of the free ones.