Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Airbus got lucky on that, but not so much on other projects where they blew their R&D budget on the wrong plane at the wrong time. The A380, A330NEO, and A350 are inter-related due to mis-allocation of R&D.
You forget the A400M, which will also never recoup their R&D costs, but I disagree on this being the wrong time. Boeing waits ten years they may be stuck in lag to Airbus eternally.
Note who built this prototype:
