Why American and European Airplanes Are So Different

Are American and European airplanes different? Beyond just the architecture and design, what makes them different?

Although Airbus and Boeing are the two largest airplane manufacturers in the world, there are a lot of differences between their planes. In this video, we'll compare Boeing and Airbus planes head-to-head, and discuss the pros and cons of each.

So whether you're a fan of American or European airplanes, this video is a great way to learn more about the differences between the two types. We hope you enjoy learning about the fascinating history and architecture of airline airplanes!

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[BeyondFacts]

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[peterkotara]

"Chat GPT, halluncinate a 10 minute script outlining the differences between Boeing and Airbus aircraft design"

[hvideos]

There is A LOT of inaccuracies and generalisations made with this video. Airbus also uses RR and GE on their planes, and also incorporate winglets. Boeing also uses 4 wheel landing gears like on their 787, 757 and 767s. There's a lot of parallels between the two manufacturers. And in reference to the Comac part, the blended wingtip is more like that of the A350, not 787.

[viscount]

Boeing eliminated the 737's eyebrow windows almost 20 years ago except on military versions. Most operators of older 737s have blanked them out to reduce maintenance.

Lots of incorrect and misleading info in this video. Implies that the aircraft manufacturer makes the decisions on liveries and seating configurations. The airlines do that. Virtually no difference in seat size and legroom in economy class on any of the major US and European airlines.

[der.Schtefan]

OMG GUYS, the text that is spoken is LITERALLY from the snippets that ChatGPT generates when you ask it "Can you create a script for a 8 minute video highlighting the differences between modern Airbus and Boeing aircraft?"

[Georgeanimatesofficial]

The Boeing 787, 757 and 767 also has 2 sets of 4 wheels, not just the A330. The only Boeing plane to have that six wheel landing gear is the 777.

[rahulmax]

Please don’t take these differences seriously.... there are different models of both the airlines... and whatever is mentioned is not correct. E.g. Boeing 787 has 4 main landing gear wheels, even airbus A320 has winglets ( called Sharklets )...

[jjohnson]

Wow wild generalizations, both Airbus and Boeing have used engines from all major manufacturers and most aircraft types have multiple engine options available just as an example the A330 has 4 different engine options from Prat, GE and Rolls and the 747 has had 6 or 7 different engine types from the same manufacturers across its life. This video was done with very little reasearch and seemed to far outweigh Comac as a real competitor. They are less of a real competitor and more on the scale of Embraer or Bombardier but will strugle to get FAA or EASA approval and without that will never take much market share from the giants

[mikeletaurus]

"Beyond Facts" is the perfect name for your channel. During the first 60 seconds of the video, you have already made several untrue statements. Boeing completely changed the design of the nose after the 737 was first flown more than 50 years ago. While the 747's nose must be different due to the second-floor flight deck, the 757, 767, 777 and 787 all have blunt noses similar to Airbus. In addition, only the 777 has triple bogey main landing gear, but you make it sound like all Boeing jets have triple bogeys. 5:48: "European carriers have bigger windows"? Neither Boeing nor Airbus offer a selection of window sizes. Airlines take what they get when ordering planes, when it comes to size of the windows. 6:59: Are you serious when you state COMAC might actually compete with Boeing and Airbus? Their little midrange regional jet is already years behind when it comes to overall design, and so far, the plane under-performs in almost every category. Stop trying to dramatize humdrum factual information. Or at least, get the facts right before you get all dramatic about them.

[Georgeanimatesofficial]

The company’s building the aircraft do not choose the livery, it’s up to the airlines for that

[pyl]

Boeing only has one plane with 6 wheels which is the Boeing 777. Most of Boeing planes have a 4 wheel setup like 767 787 and 757, also when you were talking about the winglets on Boeing planes you showed a Airbus A320 Sharklet.

[peterosborne]

So if I see an A380 with 6 wheel bogie's then it is a Boing and if I see a 767 with 4 wheel bogie's then it must be an Airbus, the number of wheels on an aircraft does not tell anyone who made the aircraft much like the number of wheel on a truck doesn't tell anyone who made the truck. The A220 is a Bombardier aircraft which was designed and is built in Canada with a second assembly line in the USA. Also engine manufacturers develop engines then offer them to all aircraft manufactures, so you will find all 3.5 major brands of turbofans on both Boing and Airbus aircraft. Beyond Facts seems to be the correct name for this channel as this video is way Beyond factual and seems rather made up on the spot with little to no research.

[marcangangelodialberobello]

Didn't know someone could say so many wrong things in a single video, truly an accomplishment.

0:38 Pointy nose design is a particularity of just SOME Boeing aircraft, in particular 707, 727 and every generation of 737 (that share the same fuselage design), and one of the reason of the pointiness is that the 707 was initially intended to be narrower but then they decided to make it a bit wider so they had to enlarge the part that merge the cockpit (that was already designed) to the fuselage making the front part of the aircraft to looks like that (and you also have to consider that the knowledge about aerodynamics during the 50s was a bit different that today). But other Boeing aircraft such as the 787 or 757 have a very different design and more a rounded nose shape.

0:50 Boeing have dropped the eyebrow windows decades ago, no more newer aircraft is produced with them and even the ones that were built with them and that now still fly have been mostly converted, so seeing a Boeing aircraft with eyebrow windows today is pretty rare. You also have to consider that other plane manufacturers have used them in the past (in the md-80 for example) making the eyebrow not a recognition element.

0:56 This one makes no sense, the only Boeing aircraft to have that kind of 6-wheel gear is the 777, any other Boeing aircraft does not have that, plus the airbus a350 (specifically the 1000 variant)
also have them so it's not a Boeing peculiarity by any means.

1:23 the Boeing 757 have a tilted 4*2 landing gear pretty similar to the one showed in the video, so no, if you are watching that type of landing gear it doesn't mean that it is an airbus.

1:30 the video is literally comparing the tail of an Airbus a321 and a Boeing 747 that is like twice that size of that, so of course in this particular case the 747 have a bigger tail but that doesn't mean that this is a peculiarity of Boeing, the tail has to be proportioned to meet certain standards and it depends on so many things that I can't even imagine, one of those being the size of the aircraft (the Airbus a380 for example has a massive tail).

1:46 the video literally says that the winglets are a Boeing thing while showing an Airbus with winglets, proving that it is not a Boeing thing. Both Airbus and Boeing uses and have used in the past many different wingtip design, like the blended, scimitar, fence etc... And older aircrafts (many of them still flies today) don't even have them. Also, newer aircrafts like the 787 or the 747 (both from Boeing) don't use any winglet because of the way the wing behave and flex during flight, so saying that Winglets are a Boeing particularity is incorrect, and the winglet design showed in 2:04 is from an aircraft that wasn't even ever produced from airbus (from what I remember the a380 plus was just a prototype).

3:05 Both Airbus and Boeing uses a big variety of engine across their aircrafts, in some cases, they use many different engines for the same aircraft family, like the a320 family that is configured with CFM56, IAE V2500, PW 6000 (a318), plus the CFM Leap and PW1000G for the NEOs variants. The a350 uses Rolls Royce engines (so not just Boeing), and the 757 is used with both RR and PW (so PW is not just for Airbuses). So, there is not a particular engine brand that is used only in Boeing or Airbus but I get that the video intention in this case could have been more of a "they mostly prefer this brand", but still...

3:46 Yes, they both uses FBW systems, so is generally correct, but I want to point out that not every Boeing or Airbus aircraft uses them. In general, every new Airbus aircraft has FBW, just the a300 and a310 weren't FBW (but they are pretty old and rare aircrafts now), while Boeing still build the 737 MAX family without it, they in fact still uses the conventional flight controls being the 737 a pretty old platform now.

3:51 This could mean from everything to nothing, both Airbus and Boeing use A LOT of redundancy for safety reason. While for the automation part, well, I don't know much about newer Boeing aircrafts so I don't perfectly know how Boeing have integrated FBW in their aircrafts, but the fact that Airbus is more focused on automation than Boeing is kind of right, but the reason, at least in my opinion, lies in the fact that Boeing (as I said before) still relies on older platforms (like the 737), and in general Airbus is a much newer brand so they started using the FBW and much automated system almost from the beginning of their history. Also, about the "Fancy Envelope Protection Logic" used by Airbus, that logic is also used by Boeing in the 777 and 787 but by "forcing" the stick the pilot can still override that limit, thing that is not possible in the Airbuses without disabling some features in the cockpit.

4:18 that is probably the only correct part of the video… almost… in fact I have to point out that old Airbus aircrafts (a300 and a310) used to have the Yoke like Boeing.

5:14 This whole part goes into the different airlines seat configuration. I don’t get why is saying that European airliners prefers more space and comfort while American ones prefer to have more passengers. It heavily depends on the airline itself, if you compare Lufthansa to Spirit obviously Lufthansa seats will be more Comfortable in general, but if you consider Ryanair and Delta the situation changes, the whole argument of the video here makes no sense here.

6:04 Same thing, both American and European planes and Airlines can and are configured with more classes (unless you fly on some low cost like Ryanair), and this is NOT a peculiarity of American planes or airlines.

6:45 I don’t even know how to comment this… but, C919 a serious competitor? Yeah… sure… The “Chinese” aircraft with 40% of foreign components imported from US and Europe, with 3/5 of their suppliers based in US and 1/3 in Europe and with American engines… Basically everything that keeps C919 in the air is not from China. I’m not saying that this is not a big accomplishment from China, but building aircrafts and certify them is hard, and Boeing have done this for more than 100 years.
Then the video proceeds in fact to explain similarities of the C919 with its competitors (how strange), and this is not only for the exterior, look at the cockpit of a C919 and an Airbus a350 or a220 for example.

I don’t know what I missed out, but I think this covers pretty much every important part.


Ps: Pls let me know if I made any mistake, so we can avoid spreading misinformation.

[vandejong]

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[ismaelsaldanha]

Can’t believe you completely left out the number 3 comercial airplane builder in the world.
Maybe you simply don’t know about it.
It’s called Embraer.
It’s a Brazilian company
Boeing tried to buy it, but didn’t work.

[Boscoh_]

“And don’t forget the wing tips. Boeing likes to add winglets to many of their models.” Points to example of winglets on an Airbus A320.

You lost me there bro.

I watch planes with all my kids. It takes about an hour for a 5 year old to begin picking out Airbus vs Boeing. It’s not hard enough that you need this video.

[danielcover]

1:48 he’s describing how Boeing has winglets but it’s an A321 that’s shown on the screen.

[lukemilner]

Speaking for the aviation community, this guy tries but is really lacking. Saying something as general as "if it has 4 wheels it's an airbus. If it has 6 it's a Boeing".

[hammondc]

As if European carriers wouldn’t offer Premium Eco, Business and First class…😂

[suddhojitgon]

This is an advertisement of Comac in the disguise of Boeing and Airbus's description.