Originally Posted by
canberra97
The original forerunner of the Airbus A380 :-)
Closer than you'd think!
Early European collaborative work on wide-bodied aeroplanes led to the HBN 100, the partners being
Hawker Siddeley,
Breguet and
Nord. When that came to nothing, we changed to Sud Aviation as our French partner and so the route to Airbus started.