El Opinador Compulsivo

Según este autor, el Airbus A380 es más grande, pero no tiene el encanto del Boeing 747:

It was 1969 and the airplane designers having lunch in the conference room of Pan American World Airways were standing by the window overlooking New York's Park Avenue when Charles Lindbergh came over. The famous aviator was a consultant to the airline at the time and he had something to say about the 747 Joe Sutter and his team at Boeing were creating for Pan Am.

" 'This is one of the great ones.' "Sutter recounted Lindbergh saying, "I mean the 747, this is an airplane that will go down in history."

Thirty-eight years later, as hundreds of journalists watched the brand new Airbus A380 descend onto runways in the United States for the first time, they were encouraged to compare it with the 747. My advice to Airbus: Don't go there.