I was always a fan of the Hs748 myself, but comparison with the A380 seems more than a little unfair. :D:D:D:D

lol!

It is a very attractive design, would beat the A380 in a beauty pageant any day! I especially like the (what seams to be) more prominent winglets compared to the 773

Makes me feel really sorry for the engineering students that have really busy timetables.

Tell me about it 🙁

Are Antonov paying you for that free advertisment you put up 😉

Cracking pics anyway, well done

I think we all gathered what he was talking about none-the-less :rolleyes:

you were, sorry, was just getting that it seems noone can ever say a word wrong about B. just my opinion though 😮

Boeing did not, the 747 then was 150% larger than any other commercial jet at the time. No data to analyze, no experience to learn from. Thats why it was such a huge gamble

But it was the size difference not because it was originally intended to be a freighter? Either way, it was a feet at the time pulling it off and making such a success of it.

Sandy, I really admire your in depth, thought out and researched answers on these forums but sometimes I wonder why Boeing aren’t sponsoring you to be here (maybe they are?). I am much more of a Boeing man myself, however I do respect the tremendous contribution Airbus has made to the Industry and I don’t see either of them putting each other out of business unless one of them fecks up badly.

What I’m getting at, is that by sitting on the fence a lot and reading more instead of posting, it has came across that you get slightly aggressive in your BvsA and really defensive. That doesn’t mean I want you stop posting, or even change your posts – just pointing out that it puts non-frequent posters like myself off from posting in case we get shot down? Sorry!

Symon

Excellent! I bet their TCAS must have been going nutty 😉

Very interesting seeing the major US carriers mini jets and props, seeing as we always only see their c/s on the big jets in the UK!