Originally Posted by
flyingfiddler
The A320 was clean sheet. The A330 is a stretched A300 with longer wings and a new flight deck taken from the A320.
So was the 757. The 320 went into service 4 years after the 75 did (roughly).
Again, fan bois gonna fan boi. The 320 and it's derivatives have been around a while.
About the 330. Yes, you could say the 75 was a derivative of the 72, it was to some extent. You could say the 73 was a derivative of the 72. You could say the 319 was derivative of the 320. Just as you can say the 330 is a derivative of the 300. You could say the 76 was a derivative of the 75. Semantics. Not sure what your point is here.