In a message dated 12/12/2003 10:55:06 PM Pacific Standard Time, airline@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: << Does anyone know a good resource for proposed aircraft types such as the MD12? I saw some pictures of this recently and on first impression it looks almost identical to the A380. Was it because of the Boeing buy out it was scrapped or was it a much older design/proposal? >> Well, Boeing and Airbus were jointly working on the superjumbo, and when Boeing left the project it became A3XX then A380. I am not sure of the time frame they were working in, but this might have come of the MD-12 project.