Osloflyer From Norway, joined Apr 2007, 10 posts, RR: 0 Posted (3 years 11 months 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 7452 times:
I’m sure it has been discussed before but what will Boeing call their future airplanes?
Now they have the 787, the next one will be 797 for sure, but then what? They kind of ran out of numbers to use.
Will it perhaps be the 7A7..7B7..Any thoughts?
Jetplaner From Canada, joined Mar 2008, 158 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (3 years 11 months 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 7370 times:
Presumably the same problem for Airbus, but they can still use A360, A370 and A390 before they need to get creative with names. Maybe they could start naming them actual names instead of numbers. Sort of like the Airbus Beluga, Boeing 787 Dreamliner or Concorde.
VirginFlyer From New Zealand, joined Sep 2000, 4502 posts, RR: 50 Reply 4, posted (3 years 11 months 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 7150 times:
Quoting Osloflyer (Thread starter): Now they have the 787, the next one will be 797 for sure, but then what? They kind of ran out of numbers to use.
Come on, we all know that once they run out of numbers, that's it, no more Boeing.
Quoting DLPMMM (Reply 1): Otherwise, they could go for the 808, 818, 828.....
I'd prefer 807, 817, 827 etc... Boeing's previous airliners have included the 247, 307, 377, so I think keeping the 7 at the end has some traditional value.
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Bohica From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 2407 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (3 years 11 months 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 7073 times:
Quoting Jetplaner (Reply 2): Presumably the same problem for Airbus, but they can still use A360, A370 and A390 before they need to get creative with names.
Considering there is already an A400 I'm sure we will see A410, A420, A430, etc.
Quoting VirginFlyer (Reply 4): I'd prefer 807, 817, 827 etc... Boeing's previous airliners have included the 247, 307, 377, so I think keeping the 7 at the end has some traditional value.
I hope they stick with 807, 817, 827....This keeps with the tradition with the number 7 as well as having the number 8 which is considered lucky in many parts of the world.
DeltaMD90 From United States of America, joined Apr 2008, 5290 posts, RR: 48 Reply 6, posted (3 years 11 months 3 days 4 hours ago) and read 6918 times:
Silly you, you know they will never make a 737, instead keep stretching it, 737-1000, 737-1100, etc. And the 747-9 will be the new generation widebody. And with the 787 they got all the gaps covered! They won't even need a 797!
DeltaMD90 From United States of America, joined Apr 2008, 5290 posts, RR: 48 Reply 7, posted (3 years 11 months 3 days 4 hours ago) and read 6844 times:
Burkhard From Germany, joined Nov 2006, 4248 posts, RR: 2 Reply 8, posted (3 years 11 months 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 6691 times:
As said, if Y3 will be a traditional aircraft they still have the 787. Once a really new concept like the wing only aircraft, comes, this can be signalled by a new number If it is 807 ?
Kappel From Suriname, joined Jul 2005, 3533 posts, RR: 18 Reply 13, posted (3 years 11 months 3 days ago) and read 6398 times:
Quoting Bohica (Reply 5): Considering there is already an A400 I'm sure we will see A410, A420, A430, etc.
The A400 is a military aircraft, maybe they will want to keep the A4x0 numbers for military projects. It's funny how this works. Airbus started with a300, because the a300 was originally meant to be a 300 seater plane. As it evolved to a 250 seater it became the a300B.
Boeing came to the 7xx numbers as the 4xx to 6xx were reserved for other (military IIRC) projects. And 707 had a nice ring to it. Besides, as mentioned by VirginFlyer, all their aircraft ended with a 7. So for Boeing it makes a lot of sense to go for 8x7 (assumint the 8xx numbers are available).
Airbus still has a360, a370 and a390, so it will be a long time before they need to worry about that. Boeing will be at the end with the 737RS. So if Y3 comes after that... then we'll see.
AirbusA6 From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2005, 1906 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (3 years 11 months 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 6239 times:
Quoting MBJ2000 (Reply 14): I think '4' means bad luck in Asia while '8' is a lucky one, so it seems Boeing is in a good position, they can go on with 808, 818, 838 etc.
Ah yes of course, that explains why airlines like SQ and CX never bought the 747-400 I'm sure the 888-8 model will sell like hotcakes...
Airbus, of course with the A320 derivatives, have used the inbetween numbers as well, so theoretically there's no reason why the replacement A32X couldn't be called the A325!
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NoWorries From United States of America, joined Oct 2006, 523 posts, RR: 1 Reply 16, posted (3 years 11 months 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 6123 times:
Don't forget about four digits -- the SST was the 2707 -- so Boeing could do something like 1707, etc.
Strandedinbgm From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 329 posts, RR: 0 Reply 20, posted (3 years 11 months 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 5225 times:
sorry, that decision has been delayed to a yet to be determined date.
It's 737s, 747s and 380s. Not 737's, 747's and 380's. Learn to use the apostrophe for crying out loud.
FRAspotter From South Korea, joined May 2004, 2315 posts, RR: 10 Reply 22, posted (3 years 11 months 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 4914 times:
Quoting Bohica (Reply 5): Considering there is already an A400 I'm sure we will see A410, A420, A430, etc.
Or since they had the A3XX series be all passenger aircraft, they could save the A4XX series for if they decide in the future to continue designing military aircraft. Maybe Airbus could then continue to the A5XX series for more passenger aircraft designs... The A500, A510, A520, etc sound pretty cool.
As far as Boeing is concerned... I say continue with the 8 series. Boeing 808, 818, 828, etc sound pretty cool. It helps with memorization to keep the first and last numbers the same IMO...
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2707200X From United States of America, joined Mar 2009, 6930 posts, RR: 1 Reply 24, posted (3 years 11 months 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 4646 times:
These titles are good because their is no 707-800, 717-800 or 727-900 at least from 797 to 7127.
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25 DiscoverCSG: That would give a whole new meaning to the concept of a "round-trip" ticket.
26 Pegasus1: ...as opposed to the 'A180' (380), which, in Qantas folklore at least, with increasing frequency doesn't even get to do that! Returning to topic, 807
27 Allegro: Yeah, this sounds right ... Ah, a girl after my own heart!
28 Kappel: LOL, yeah, didn't think about that. Chances are indeed good that Airbus PR will not want an aircraft to be named a360....
29 VirginFlyer: I don't know - just to take an example I don't think the Boeing 1011101011 is quite as catchy as the Boeing 747, although i like the coincidence that
30 AirIndia: 420 in Indian law refers to fraud and is very commonly used term in India for fraud. Interestingly, in the late 80s, after the Bangalore crash of an
31 Bahadir: seven-late-seven sorry couldn't help it ..
32 EMB170: Not to mention what 420 refers to in the USA...
33 KC135TopBoom: Here is a little history from the Boeing web site: http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers...chive/2004/february/i_history.html Also, at Boeing, model nu
34 ExFATboy: Well, considering the development time of the 787, the 797 won't make first flight until just before 2040, so I doubt this is very high on Boeing's pr
35 Antoniemey: You goofed on that... 7 is 111 and 4 is 11... so if you wanted to go with just the numerals put together it would be 11111111 or 111 11 111. Using 74
36 Ikramerica: The Vaporliner Or Bob. Bob sounds like a good name for a plane. Or operating system.
37 Cosmofly: Boeing is using 7xx Airbus is using 3xx China is using 9xx I guess 8xx makes most sense How about BSxx where B stands for BWB and S stands for superso
38 Rampart: And has the same symmetry as 707, 727, etc. Along those lines, we can also use MoM, DaD, PoP, SiS, ToT... a whole new Boeing family!
39 Jalapeno: How about roman numerals? Boeing DCCXCVII
40 Cloudyapple: And of course the Boeing 929 is a hydrofoil
41 WESTERN737800: Like others have said, I think they should go with 797, 807, 817, 827, ect.
42 Mayhem: Am I the only one who "feels" that anything 807 (or 808), 817, 827, ... would be back in the past? Mainly with the 807 (or 808) it makes me think of t
43 SpeedyGonzales: They can call the planes whatever they want, but I'll stick to Airbus if they ever call the shipboard computer Eddie
44 VirginFlyer: I was using 747 as a single number - I hadn't realised it'd be all ones if you used the digits, but that's pretty nifty too. I'm pretty sure I have g
45 EDICHC: I guess they feared that it would be classed as only half as good as the old Boeing 720?
46 FuturePilot16: Of course they did. Here is a is of the SQ 747 at JFK
47 RedChili: No, that's not an SQ 747, that's an SQ 1011101011.
48 Isitsafenow: Might as well call it the EDIT because two of my posts on this thread have been stricken with no email message from the moderator. The moderator eithe
49 VirginFlyer: You might want to check what email address you have in your profile here - when a post is deleted, an email automatically gets sent to that email add
50 Viscount724: I would like to see aircraft makers revert to using names as they once did, e.g. Constellation, Stratocruiser, Comet, Britannia, Viscount, Vanguard,
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