Frenchman Roger Béteille, the driving force behind Airbus's first commercial aircraft the A300B, died on June 14 2019. He was 97.
John Walton sums up all the orders and announcements at the 2019 Paris Air Show at the end of the trade days at Le Bourget.
Airbus has built a remotely controlled scale-model plane which it has called AlbatrossOne that features wing tips that flap like those of birds.
There were close to 200 aircraft orders for Airbus on Day 3 of the Paris Air Show, along with orders for ATR, Boeing, Embraer and Mitsubishi.
Seven chief technology officers from the world’s biggest largest aerospace manufacturers have set out the industry’s position on sustainability.
Airbus and Dassault Aviation have signed a joint industrial proposal to the governments of France and Germany for the Future Combat Air System (FCAS).
