Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm
…value, enabling Airbus Industries to proceed with the development of its second aircraft, the Airbus A310. During 1981, MBB acquired rival company Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke (VFW), which itself had been formed via the merger of the aircraft manufacturers Focke-Wulf, Focke-Achgelis, and Weserflug. During the following year…