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Airbus Won’t Rush Stretched A320 Twinjet: That Airbus Industrie will eventually stretch their hot selling standard body A320 is certain. Like Boeing with the 727 twenty years before, Al realises that there are probably a thousand additional long-term sales to be had with a stretch of their present airframe. Spokesmen for Airbus now confirm though
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The Year That Was Nineteen hundred and eighty-six is rapidly fading and another year has come and gone. As far as aviation is concerned it was a pretty good year. Foremost, it was a relatively safe year for flying with few of the catastrophes that plagued 1985. Terrorism was rife though ironically it affected aviation