Favorite Airbus planes

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hello community,
What’s everyone’s favorite Airbus aircraft?
Kind of a random question. Sorry.
 
The A380 is the obvious answer; however I haven't boarded a A220 yet, and I am really interested in seeing where it converges to and diverges from the original Airbus A320 line.
 
Definitely the Beluga and Beluga XL fleet
 

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Re: A380 design. We get A380s and C-5M Galaxies on the high level over the house, sometimes fairly close. I'm always struck by the comparative sizes of the wings vs fuselage size. The A380's are massive while the C-5's look tiny.

What a difference half a century makes.

Chris C-5 vs A380.png
 
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Airbus's A380 test plane (production serial number MSN001) also carried out humanitarian rescue missions during the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, which left a deep impression on many people.

The A380 might not have been very successful in terms of economy, and there may not be new planes like the A380 in the future, but the A380 is destined to hold a place in aviation history.
 
Of course the A380, but I do like the look of the A220. I know it was designed by Bombardier, so it doesn't have the typical Airbus face, which is good.
 
Probably the A300 or A320; sadly, after those they've a history of conservatism.

The A380 was the once in a lifetime opportunity to move airliner design on by a generation, but they lacked the corporate courage to do so and just made a bigger 747. Yes, impressive engineering in isolation but quickly surpassed in economics by subsequent tube-and-wing designs with better engines. What was the point? Didn't even break even on the project. It was obsolete as soon as it entered service.

The debacle of their response to the 787 showed their lack of decisiveness and when they finally launched the XWB it was ... narrower than 1968 designs for the A300!

The Neo designs just rely on engine manufacturers getting better at their work, while Airbus does very little.

It's a mercy that the Sonic Cruiser never went into production because Airbus today is too risk-averse to have had any chance of responding to it. They've become the lazy incumbent they disrupted in the 1970s.
 
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I've never flown on one but the A380 seems the most memorable of their airliners to me. Seems its commercial career was greatly limited by the same factors which largely ended the age of the 747.

I have gotten to fly on the neo series that use the P&W geared turbofans a few times, which do seem to make things noticeably quieter inside and I like that.

Generally, just not shooting themselves in the foot as much as Boeing has in the past few years has been good to them.
 

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