Reviews for Airbus A330/340

The average rating for Airbus A330/340 based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-04-28 00:00:00 Just Whitfield A Colorful Overview of Two Important Airbus Planes Airbus entered the world of commercial airliners with its A300, which set the standard for the twin-engine widebody. Then came the A310, a highly versatile aircraft, but two aircraft hardly make a family. It was with the smaller A320 series that Airbus established itself as a major player as a builder of commercial airplanes. Building on the success of having a family of jetliners, Airbus introduced the A330 and A340 widebody aircraft. And this book does a fine job in chronicling the development of the earlier versions of both types, it provides scant detail on the newer A340-500 and A340-600. (The A330-200 freighter was introduced long after this book's 2001 publication.) The book covers the evolution of the two types from the A300/A310, chronicling the design and development of both the A330 and A340, also offering technical specifications on all the variants of the -200 and -300 series of both types, for which the author deserves kudos. Following the Airlife formula, the book covers the life of both airliner types in service and the operators with which they have been flying with through 2001. A short list of incidents, a production history, and a chronology complete the book. The photos, mostly stock Airbus material, are superb. The reader is also referred to Guy Norris's excellent book.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-05-08 00:00:00 Lee Carter mostly photos