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(More customer reviews)Bill Gunston needs no introduction to readers of aviation books...not with some 300 titles to his credit. This one first appeared in 1988 and is here substantially updated and now illustrated in color throughout. There are also some wonderful two-page cutaway diagrams of all the key aircraft. Gunston's book is the best single source of Airbus history, taking the story right down to the huge A380 and the forthcoming A350 airliners as well as the troubled military transport project. But the author also discusses issues of management (always complex in this case), sharing of manufacture among the European nations involved (chiefly Germany and France, but including the UK and Spain), the logistics of a widespread manufacturing program, and labor issues. Given how Airbus has grown in the past quarter-century, the new edition is an important addition to the literature, one well worth buying even if you own the 1988 book.
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Bill Gunston\'s original book, Airbus, was published by Osprey in 1988. This 2nd Edition includes all the prolific single-aisle aircraft that have followed the A320, the great new wide-bodies (the A330 and four-engine A340), the enormous A380 (an amazing tale dominated not by the technology but by politics and finance), the totally different A400M military air lifter and, not least, by the extraordinary gestation of the A350, which was launched in 2005, stopped in 2006 and re-launched in a redesigned and enlarged form in 2007.
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