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https://leehamnews.com/2019/07/12/airbu ... sary-book/
...was kennelijk best wel een goed boek, geen "propaganda-prul"...Airbus has pulled the 50th year anniversary book it commissioned from veteran aviation reporter Nicola Clark.
Reuters, the first to report the move,
reported that concerns over the timing
as Airbus attempts to put more than five years of fraud investigations behind it were the reason.
Reuters also reported “Airbus said the version seen by the public was a draft.
‘The draft wasn’t consistent with our ambition for celebrating 50 years of pioneering progress,’ the Airbus spokesman said.”
The book had been commissioned by the regime of former CEO Tom Enders.
Enders retired April 1.
It was a candid book of the Airbus history that looked at the warts and the accomplishments.
It wasn’t the typical puff-piece commissioned book
—which made it the best such anniversary book LNA has ever read.
https://leehamnews.com/2019/07/08/ponti ... -50-years/
...maar goed, dit boek was dus te "eerlijk en transparant"...July 8, 2019: When a company authorizes or sponsors a book about some major event,
the book is usually a puff piece meant for the coffee table in reception.
Airbus authorized the book, Airbus: The First 50 Years, but it’s no puff piece.
It’s an honest, candid accounting of how the company came to be,
navigating through country and corporate politics, face offs with rival Boeing,
reporting the insider trading allegations and
ending with the as-yet unfinished corruption scandal investigations.
Nicola Clark, the aerospace reporter for the International Herald Tribune,
did a superb job up to her usual reporting standards while avoiding the puff pieces that usually come with an authorized book.
Years later, the investigations remain open.
Airbus fired many people, unfortunately sweeping some innocents with the guilty.
Some executives hit retirement age and left;
had some of these not, there is a belief these people would have been fired, too.
Enders and Wilhelm had to go, too,
even though they disclosed the issues to regulators and took steps to clean house.
Clark recounts all this.
The final outcome—prosecutions, if any,
and billions of Euros in fines to Airbus—
are chapters yet to be written.
Clark has done a superb job in the First 50 Years.
Airbus did a fine job in letting Clark do hers.
This is a book that is a must-read for aviation aficionados.
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