The Airbus A310 is a wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Airbus Industrie GIE, then a consortium of European aerospace manufacturers. Airbus had identified a demand for an aircraft smaller
An A310 of Air Transat in 2009
The A310 (background) is a shrunken version of the Airbus A300 (foreground)
The A310-200 prototype, featuring the liveries of Swissair (left) and Lufthansa (right), the first customers.
In 1988, an A310 was delivered to Interflug: the first Airbus for an Eastern-bloc airline.
The Airbus A330 is a wide-body airliner developed and produced by Airbus. Airbus began developing larger A300 derivatives in the mid–1970s, giving rise to the A330 twinjet as well as the Airbus A340 q
Airbus A310
…A310 MRT (multi-role transport), which was further developed into the A310 MRTT (multi-role tanker transport). The aircraft was replaced by the larger Airbus A330-200. Production ended after 255 aircraft were produced, with the final A310 being delivered in June 1998. On 26 September 1967, the governments of France…
An Airbus A330-300 operated by Delta Air Lines, the largest operator of the family
Compared to the A330 twinjet (on ground), the heavier A340 (in flight) has four engines and a centre-line wheel bogie.
Rolls-Royce's Trent 700 features a mixed exhaust.
Pratt & Whitney's PW4000 has a more conventional unmixed exhaust.