The A300/A310 would spawn many variants, but two stand out as the most exciting. There’s the Airbus A300 Zero-G, a reduced-gravity aircraft used for training astronauts.

The Airbus A300 was manufactured from 1971 to 2007 and remains in service, and 561 were built. It was able to typically seat 247 passengers in a two-class configuration while operating routes of ...

The A300 is no longer in production. The aircraft celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2014, and Airbus plans an even bigger version of the transport plane – the A330-based Beluga XL – in 2019.

Before the Airbus A300, the cockpit of most passenger jets was much larger because it included a pilot, co-pilot, and flight engineer. The flight engineer's job was to help monitor the complex ...

Airbus created its supersize BelugaST by cutting the top section off one of its Airbus A300 widebody jet models and then adding a bubble-shaped additional fuselage to the airframe. The A300 is no ...

This week, Airbus is celebrating the fortieth anniversary of its A300's entry into service. The A300B was the first commercial airliner produced by Airbus — a joint venture between France and ...

Airbus Industrie would develop the world’s first wide-body twin-engine jet airliner, the Airbus A300. It was a plane that would launch an empire. Light and efficient ...