Re: Why did icelandair choose pratt and Witney over cfm?

I was under the impression fuel burn wasn't that far apart. However reliability is important as aircraft cost money if they are aog. Maybe as demand for cfm is higher getting a good price and delivery slot was difficult . However for a small airline like icelandair poor reliability could be disastr...

Re: Updated: Korean Air orders 6 x A350-900 and 27 x A350-1000

Curious as to why RR has no press release regarding this quite significent order for both XWBs?? They have press releases for recent Starlux & Vietjet orders, but not KE. Probably because the contract has not yet been finally signed. Regardless of whether there is a choice, engine contracts mus...

Re: Boeing’s Troubles

Boeing has no information on who has worked on which part?? Or they do have information and have already sacked them... Fred Reinforcing the culture of do something wrong we fire you? This leads to cover ups and fear. What needs to be in place is a culture where you can report that the instructions...

Re: IAG in talks to replace BA 777s

The G-VII* series B772’s are some of the most premium aircraft in the world. They have F and J going almost all the way back to the L/R 3 doors, with WT+ and a very, very small Economy section behind. Given their premium-heavy nature, upgrading to the B779 in an equally premium-heavy configuration ...

Re: Thai Airways Explores Major Aircraft Order, Focusing on Boeing 787 Widebodies

Indeed. What's driving the decision to go all-Boeing? Is there political influence involved? Availability? Bloomberg reporting behind paywall that it is Airbus's best buddy Rolls who has managed to drive TG into Boeing's hands. :roll: If true Airbus will have lost massive orders to both EK and now ...

Re: Emirates Tim Clark proposed to Airbus an A380 replacement

Solving the engine problem of the A380 won't solve the airframe problem. The existing A380 is a shrink of a correct-length aircraft that was never produced, and has the frontal area and structural weight issues you'd expect of a shrink. That can be overcome if you are a monster airline based in a h...

Re: What Happened to the Boeing 797 Concept?

flipdewaf wrote:

dare100em wrote:

Gongrats on your 5.000st post

Thanks! I think?

Fred

Re: What Happened to the Boeing 797 Concept?

The 767 was the longest range you could get on two engines. That’s was it’s thing. The inefficient cabin layout was simply a result of being the least worst option. As soon as bigger engines meant you didn’t have ti have that layout the sales all but dropped off a cliff. The 7abreast layout is abou...

Re: What Happened to the Boeing 797 Concept?

With the A350 family soon moving up to 9,000nm range they will have far too much excess weight compared to a 6,000nm optimised design. The A330 family is a bit inefficient due to older design and systems. Airbus wouldn't really have an answer for the 797. I don't see how the A321 with 127m2 cabin a...

Re: LH group orders 10 A350-1000, 5 A30-900, and 7 B787-9

Those ols SN birds were replaced by group ox ex SQ machines few years ago. The question then again arises why does LH need to operate 3 different aircraft types catering to the same segment ie 748/351/779? Exactly; Swiss will also have 3 WB types with the 330, 350 and 777 (maybe the 340s will still...

Re: Update: AI makes commitments for 250 Airbus and 220 Boeing aircraft

CFM is the other big winner out of this with an order of 800 engines plus spares https://www.cfmaeroengines.com/press-articles/air-india-places-record-order-for-more-than-800-leap-engines/ Never saw this coming... GTF was supposed to just mop the floor with Leap56... Running hot (ceramics) as oppos...

Re: Boeing adding 737 line in Everett

[list=][/list] Say, if Boeing did a MAX 10 style fuselage stretch to a MAX 11. Could this still be grandfathered? It would be great to move the long versions out of high capacity tight Renton to the more spacious Everett. Aside from that, it is great news for the truss braced wing production site se...

Re: Boeing adding 737 line in Everett

But maybe we should be carefull to not extrapolate that into hoped for a NB marketshare turnaround. Market realities don't seem to justify that. No one here who knows what's going on is expecting a MAJOR market share turn around, that is not the whole point of this thread anyways . No one here who ...

Re: Rolls Royce CEO paints a bleak picture and Airbus rules nothing out

I thought the ultrafan was already stopped, they just assembled one because they were at that stage but no more money was put into it. As for Airbus not wanting to take on RR because it has its own issues, I don't really see the link, what RR needs is money, to hire more engineers and managers to f...

Re: Rolls Royce CEO paints a bleak picture and Airbus rules nothing out

To some extent this is a normal approach from a new CEO. Make the situation on his first day look as bad as possible, then take the credit for improving it down the line. Exactly that. It's not the case that RR is nearing bankrupty. However they have troubles, especially in the large Civil aviation...

Re: Frankfurt Airport to shut down T2 after opening of T3 in 2026

The article does not state that T2 will be closed for ever. It does state that for a period of 24 month T2 will be closing when T3 is running a full capacity and that the technical features of T2 will indeed be updated over that period. What will not be updated is the passager zones. A fact to be co...

Re: Boeing manning up to Launch new aircraft? Leeham thinks so.

https://news.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_article__image_gallery/public/images/202101/MIT-Aircraft-Nox-02-press.jpg?itok=HTq1tGWa Here is one example of a basic hybrid aircraft. The bypass ratio of a turbofan is calculated by using the hot core gas and bypass air from the front fan. This...

Re: Boeing CEO's Comments On Their Next Airplane

I’d love to see Boeing put the engineers back in charge. Maybe the accountants have been running the show for too long. There seems to be absolutely no vision at the company that I can see. I’ve flown Boeing’s best products for years and this era makes me pretty sad. Put Engineers in charge and you...

Re: Airbus A350 Production/Delivery Thread - 2020

Is this one also a -ULR, like the one the German government just took? Or just a standard A359? The A350-900ACJ is a derivation of the ULR ( increased fuel capacity ) and should have a max range of 20.000 km What confuses me is that the German Air Force says it has a range of 15.000 km ( standard A...

Re: Boeing CEO: NMA will "start with a clean sheet of paper again"

I would expect them to look into a scenario where two frames with different fuselage widths (one for NSA and one for NMA) could be built on the same line, which will improve the profitability of an NMA sized plane. If they could do this, it could change aviation manufacturing forever. I expect more...

Re: Boeing 777-9 first flight 24 January 2020 (weather permitting)

While waiting I made 3 (panic) bathroom breaks and people looked at me like a complete weirdo as I was really in a hurry each time. I really didn't want to miss the take off. I even watched the video feed during a team lunch meeting... :) I didn't find the wait boring at all with all the ATC calls,...

Re: Boeing 777-9 first flight 24 January 2020 (weather permitting)

It’s really a very, very beautiful plane. And it will fly soon. Not wasted time ... even watching it standing around with my 7 year old son for hours until he fell asleep :roll: Saying this as a guy how last week joined about 25 people from Airbus watching automation strategies at BMW regarding manu...

Re: Qantas plans 3 Project Sunrise research flights in Q4 2019 using 787-9's, final decision on PS by end of 2019

Let's see it the simple way. There is absolutely no mean the total volume available for fuel in the wing on the A350-1000 can be bigger than that of the A350-900. It is just physics. Both aircraft have the same wing planform. Anyone who dares to say something otherwise is absolutely wrong. Please e...

Re: Rumor: Airbus to launch A350-1000ULR

Seems dubious to me. Since you provided no link I did a bunch of Google searches and found nothing like what you report with regards to workers moving from NMA to MAX. Maybe there is something in German language google.de but I could find nothing on google.com. Also seems this is best discussed in ...

Re: Updated: Qantas saying it is almost ready to select Project Sunrise aircraft

Boeing needing to cut back on investment pending MAX return to service and 797 launch? The MAX fiasco is certainly hitting Boeing hard. Aside from dropping/mothballing the 778, in another thread it's claimed all engineers that were working on NMA have now been moved to MAX which will impact that si...

Re: What comes after the B797 ??