im surprised there was no topic on this aircraft yet 

the A300 and shorter A310 both have a certail potential.
in real life, the use of this 1st generation Airbus has been wide, from the traditional passenger transport to freighters & aerial refueling.

a proposed tanker version of secondhand A310's has been in use with Germany and Canada for some time.
but those are HDU tankers only, while Airbus has also tested a boom-refueling system for the A310, before implementing this on the newer A330-MRTT.
i think the larger A300 would make a better tanker then the A310, as it offers more space/payload.




an A310-based AEW platform was also proposed to Australia a few years ago....

I'm amazed the A300 wasn't used more by the military as Tanker transport aircraft. I would have liked to have seen the RAF buying the A310 in the 80's/90's

here's another, the A300 Zero-G...



and its replacement, the A310 Zero-G

A310-MRTT in the new house colors 

Nice one Nils. One of these days I'll get around to building a Polaris.

In Richard Payne's "Stuck on the drawing board" HS149 is defined a four-engined derivative of A300B

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/hawker-siddeley-hs149-07-airliner.12503/

Quote from: ysi_maniac on May 08, 2021, 01:23:45 PM

In Richard Payne's "Stuck on the drawing board" HS149 is defined a four-engined derivative of A300B

Like a short A340 then?

Early Airbus concepts, posted on Twitter by Echoes In The Sky ( @exoticaviation ) here:
https://twitter.com/exoticaviation/status/1584640924906270720?s=20&t=4fgDUMHcH_PvK-iWIz2xTQ

Biggest thing I've ever flown!   I didn't do it for long but got a little "heavy" time herding cargo A300s around the Caribbean and China.  I think the most memorable flight was skirting the edge of Hurricane Katrina a few hours before it hit New Orleans. 

Completely different animal compared to the A320 I teach on these days.

Cool. I can only imagine the difference ! But if you squint really hard when you're looking at them, they're pretty much the same lol. Some day we'll sit down fora few pints and I can hear some of your stories nick. Cheers

Quote from: Captain Canada on October 24, 2022, 06:59:23 PMCool. I can only imagine the difference ! But if you squint really hard when you're looking at them, they're pretty much the same lol. Some day we'll sit down fora few pints and I can hear some of your stories nick. Cheers

I would absolutely love that.

They all look the same to me. 

Here's a Marconi FASS BAe 844 which is based on the A310. They also proposed a BAe 847 which was based on the A300. I'm attempting a 1/72 build of it.

Quote from: zenrat on October 25, 2022, 03:21:19 AMThey all look the same to me. 

Philistine!