Airbus A380 Launch: The Coming of Age That Will Showcase North Wales Skills All Over the World ; As European Leaders Gather Tomorrow for the Official Roll-Out of Airbus's Latest Triumph, Carl Butler Talks to Lord Barry Jones About the Plane's Welsh Heritage

Daily Post › January 17, 2005

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TWO aircraft, unveiled together in brilliant French sunshine, laid the foundation of today's European aviation industry.

One, the headline-grabbing Concorde, was to have a meteoric rise to fame. The other, less glamorously named Airbus A300, attracted far less attention, but began scooping up the orders.

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Airbus A380 Launch: The Coming of Age That Will Showcase North Wales Skills All Over the World ; As European Leaders Gather Tomorrow for the Official Roll-Out of Airbus's Latest Triumph, Carl Butler Talks to Lord Barry Jones About the Plane's Welsh Heritage

Watching that event 34 years ago was a young Labour MP whose political career became inextricably linked with the fortunes of Airbus.

Tomorrow, the former Alyn and Deeside MP, now Lord Barry...

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