747400sp From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 3301 posts, RR: 2 Posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 2746 times:
I was looking at the A300 nose, when I was read about a recent A300 600 accident, and to me the nose and cockpit design look like a larger version of a BAC 1-11 nose and cockpit design. So here is my question, is the A300 nose and cockpit, base on the BAC 1-11 nose and cockpit design?
clydenairways From Ireland, joined Jan 2007, 1000 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 2701 times:
I don't think it was, the Brits did the wings and the French did the fuse.
Having said that, it does look very similar (front fuselage) to the proposed BAC 3-11 40 years ago. So maybe they influenced the design.
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PapaChuck From United States of America, joined Aug 2010, 134 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 2583 times:
Jetlagged From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2005, 2452 posts, RR: 17 Reply 3, posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 2261 times:
If shapes are similar it doesn't mean that the design is the same. Apart from anything else there's a significant difference in scale between the BAC 111 and the A300B4. There's a superficial similarity in the shape of the third window, but the front window shape is totally different.
The two designs are very different.
The glass isn't half empty, or half full, it's twice as big as it needs to be.
doug_Or From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 3163 posts, RR: 4 Reply 4, posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 2192 times:
I haven't got my book with me, but before BAe got onboard with Airbus I do believe they had done studies on a BAC 2-11 or 3-11 or some such thing which was a widebody roughly similar in scale and mission to the A300.
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