Air buses

50 years ago, in October, 1972, the first flight of a prototype of the passenger Airbus A300 plane took place. History of one of the largest aircraft-building companies in the world — in a photo gallery newspaper "Kommersant". The Airbus company history Airbus S.A.S. began on May 29, 1969 when Germany and France signed the intergovernmental agreement on joint development the project of the widebody passenger plane of small and average range of A300 of the Photo: information agency "Agence France-Presse" From left to right: the minister transports France Jean Chaman, the minister of technologies United Kingdom John Stounkhaus and the representative of Federal ministry economic cooperation and development of Federal Republic of Germany Shelkhorn Johann study airliner model...