5 Major Differences Between Airbus And Boeing Aircraft

Video from the channel Long Haul by Simple Flying about Boeing, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 9:02. Language: English. Video type: Documentary.

An explainer video from Simple Flying that runs through five differences between Airbus and Boeing. The two have competed since the 1970s, when the European consortium entered the market.

William E. Boeing founded a company in 1916 that the following year was renamed Boeing Airplane Company and that built seaplanes for the US Navy during the First World War. After launching airmail services in 1928, the group became United Aircraft and Transport Corporation and absorbed manufacturers such as Pratt & Whitney. In 1931 it brought in four small airlines that gave rise to United Airlines. The 1934 antitrust law forced manufacturing and air transport to be split apart. Airbus has no comparable link to any airline.

Airbus uses a side-stick and fly-by-wire controls that prevent the aircraft's limits from being exceeded; Boeing keeps the control yoke. The A320's doors open parallel to the fuselage, while the 737's swing outward. The "bark" heard on the A320 and A330 is produced by the hydraulic power transfer unit. Both firms work in defense and space, but only Airbus builds civil helicopters: it delivered 344 in 2022. Boeing produces military aircraft such as the CH-47 Chinook, the AH-64 Apache, the AH-6 Little Bird and the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor.