Airbus A340 and A330 (Jetliner History) (Paperback)

~ (Author), Mark Wagner (Author) "Iluminated by late summer sunlight, the world's longest jetliner slowly emerged from the giant Airbus Industrie assembly building at Toulouse in France..." (more)
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Product Description

For maximum efficiency, the innovative Airbus consortium developed its large-capacity A340 and A330 jetliners concurrently, utilizing the same wings, airframe and cockpit. This history of the two jetliners and their intertwined development encompasses the birth of the projects, design and certification, construction and anatomy, and operational histories.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Zenith Press (November 14, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0760308896
• ISBN-13: 978-0760308899
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 8.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #631,758 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

• This is item 1 in The Jetliner History Series.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful coverage of the last Toulouse buses, August 21, 2003

By	Marco De Montis "de_montis" (Italy) - See all my reviews

The "Perfect Team" strikes back!

This book is another good example on how Mr. Norris and Wagner treat modern complex jetliners in the right way, in order to explain to the many and to the experts all hidden peculiarities of these fascinating planes. The authoritative text of Mr. Norris is wonderfully mated with the stunning photographs of Mr. Wagner, and the two constitute a really perfect team for aviation books!
This title examines in deep all troubled development phase of the A330/A340, with emphasis on the Toulouse's innovative approach to develop the same plane with totally different powerplants, both in type and number. Also the technical analysis is well done, with many hints on aerodynamics progress introduced by these liners.
The book obviously covers the "test" and "in service" chapters and closes with a description of the new A340-500 and -600.
The only regret on this book is the fact that you wish it bigger, both to include more text and more and wider images.
Thanks a lot, Perfect Team, we wait for the next one!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful coverage of the last Toulouse buses, August 8, 2003

By	Marco De Montis "de_montis" (Italy) - See all my reviews

Norris and Wagner constitutes a perfect team to illustrate the intricacies of modern airliners: the very detailed and well researched text by Mr. Norris is wonderfully completed by the stunning images shot by the different and deep eye of Mr. Wagner. This book is no exception to the rule of the "perfect team", so covers very well the phases of these important projects, the first challenge (or better: "defi")and direct attack to the "Seattle territory" of the big wide body jetliners.

Both A330 and A340 (especially the first) performed well on the difficult airline market of nowaday, by the fact that feature a common structure (both wings and fuselage) and cockpit, very important plusses for many airlines. By the way of this, airlines can easily switch the crews between long and medium range route, maximising aircraft utilisation.
All these aspects and many other are well treated in this volume, also the test phase is amply covered and the only pity of this volume is that you want it bigger (both in pages and in format) in order to fully appreciate all these technical aspects and wonderful images.
Thanks a lot, Perfect Team!

3.0 out of 5 stars OK BOOK, December 16, 2007

By	Mazen S. Alomari (JORDAN) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I PURCHASED THIS BOOK BECAUSE OTHERS MARKED IT AS 5 STAR , IN MY OPENIEN THIS BOOK IS FULL OF UNUSFULL INFO + REPEATED INFO.
NOT TOO MANY PICS, DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT A/C SYSTEMS..ETC.

I THINK THERE'S BETTER BOOKS FOR SAME SUBJECT.