the Airbus A300. It was a plane that would launch an empire. There were a couple of innovations that made this plane special. The wide body and raised cabin floor meant it could carry passengers ...

The first Airbus A300 transformed and accelerated air travel worldwide. Its creation was a challenging feat that required cooperation across continents to come to fruition. During the 1960s ...

Nicknamed the Beluga, it's technically the Airbus A300-600ST. The aircraft initially was called the Super Transporter in the 1990s when it began to phase out a earlier transport model dubbed the ...

But even before the A300's first flight with paying passengers, Airbus personnel envisioned a day when a whole fleet of aircraft under their name would bring the fight to Boeing and McDonnell ...

But digging out the details of the Airbus A300 in-service fleet 50 years after its first flight is complicated, and results have to be taken with some caution. Information about whether an ...

Here are five key moments that helped Airbus gain the upper hand. 1. Bernard Lathière's bold A300 bet The A300 was not just the first Airbus plane, but also the world's first twin-engined ...

Airbus has secured an air operator’s certificate for the new carrier established to conduct outsize freight transport using the airframer’s withdrawn A300-600ST Beluga fleet. The manufacturer ...

An Airbus A300-600ST Beluga cargo aircraft. The plane maker has warned it will deliver fewer aircraft this year. (Ed Jones/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images) Airbus shares sank after the plane ...

he watched the Airbus A300 prototype take off on its very first flight and touch down safely about 2 hr. later in what turned out to be... Based in Frankfurt, Germany, Jens is executive editor and ...