On 23 September, the AIAA Atlanta Section hosted Simon Pickup, Strategic Marketing Director, Airbus Americas Sales, Inc. Mr. Pickup discussed recent restructuring of EADS into the Airbus Group, comprised of three divisions, Airbus, Airbus Defense & Space, and Airbus Helicopters. Mr. Pickup elaborated on the Airbus Division's development of A320neo and A350 models to compete with recent Boeing offerings. He presented the impressive number of over 14,000 Airbus orders since the delivery of the first A300 in 1974. The student members attending from Georgia Tech and Southern Polytechnic State University received scale models of the A350.
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