1.
GV INTERIOR..Airbus nearing completion in factory
0.05

2.
SV Work in progress
0.10

3.
CU Sign giving name of companies involved
0.19

4.
SCU Company signs (3 shots)
0.22

5.
MV Project engineers
0.32

6.
MV Technician working on wing
0.37

7.
CU Engineer working
0.40

8.
MV Engineers working on wing assembly
0.46

9.
SCU Engineer working
1.00

10.
SV PAN & SCU..work in progress on fuselage interior (2 shots)
1.07

11.
LV through door, second airbus nose section
1.14

12.
GV INTERIOR..seating arrangement in mock-up
1.33



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This film came to us from Britain's Hawker-Siddeley Aviation, who are making the wings for the A-300B.

Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved

Background: The international European airbus, called the A-300B, is under construction and on schedule at the Aerospatiale assembly plant in Toulouse. Manufacture of the aircraft, a high-density short-haul twin-jet transport, is divided between major aircraft companies in France, Holland, West Germany and the United Kingdom. Spain has also joined the consortium through the CASA Company which is making the tailplane and some of the aircraft's doors.

One major potential buyer of the aircraft, British European Airways, is shortly to send a team to Toulouse to examine the airbus. So far, the aircraft hasn't yet decided upon it's requirements for a wide-bodied jet for the late 1970's, but they have already been looking at one of the A-300B's biggest potential rivals -- the Rolls Royce-powered Lockheed Tristar.