Passengers that pay for the fuel bill thru fares care about fuel economy. Bizjets are stabilizing at M.88-M.90 but their passengers don’t care about fuel burns, unless they want a full night’s sleep, then loaf along aimlessly at M.78. Should be interesting with the boom overture arrives on the game...
Jump to postI'd be intrigued to know how much impact the 787 production issues and delivery delays have on this RFP.
Jump to postTWA772LR wrote:I've said it once, Ive said it 36 times. GEnX-2B's on the entire 767 family and call it a day.
I'm kinda confused by the statement about the 40%, since the article you linked doesn't appear to contain any such comment. Maybe I missed it. What freighter does the 767 replace that it beats by 40% in efficiency? DC-10F/MD-11F. But an MD-11F really needs a 777F to match the capacity. Do the 40% t...
Jump to postThis article https://leehamnews.com/2022/06/16/faa-adopts-icao-2027-emissions-noise-rules-death-knell-for-new-production-767f-777f/ quotes Boeing‘s freight-customer leader Brian Hermesmeyer who mentions, that Boeing is working on an exception of the 767 from the 2028 ICAO emission standards, as the...
Jump to postIMHO, we need to strike a balance between automation, where it provides significant benefits, and airmanship. Overall, considering the number of daily commercial flights that occur are performed without incident, I would say the aviation industry is in a very good spot right now. The exceptions are ...
Jump to postI would guess it's a combination of excellent train services as well as Bern airport being a bit off the beaten track and inconvenient to access.
Jump to postBoeing grew to be the world's dominant aerospace company in a high-cost, pro-union, high-tax environment. Ever since Boeing's top management started shopping for cheaper venues, both for tax and labor, the company has suffered one failure after another. Meanwhile, Airbus took the lead in spite of i...
Jump to postAnd it has the nicest economy layout out there. If you want to differentiate your airline from all the others and tout premium even tough its not, the A330 can do that. I know in a world where ticketprize is everything, it is a tough sell but just from my own experience, going TATL I always take th...
Jump to postThat reminds me, what happened to the LR? I thought that would be overall more economical option for many airlines - fees and price are less, it's pretty flexible for multiple routes with the removable ACT's etc etc. I think many thought it would be like a 75/25 split between LR and XLR. Airbus rea...
Jump to postAnd thirdly, how is the 787 not a very great success in terms of market share i.e the topic of this forum when the -9 is already the most common wide body in the air behind the 777-300ER. I think you'll find that the second most common widebody model is the A330-300, ahead of the 787-9. And as far ...
Jump to postAs a tail-end baby boomer, one thing I see in younger engineers is they don't stand up when they get pushed to do half assed work, they say you get what you get and turn in half assed work. They say it's not my job to worry about anything not on my desk, even if I can see how fubar'd other things a...
Jump to postAs a tail-end baby boomer, one thing I see in younger engineers is they don't stand up when they get pushed to do half assed work, they say you get what you get and turn in half assed work. They say it's not my job to worry about anything not on my desk, even if I can see how fubar'd other things a...
Jump to postI mean that is a great record! Though to say and correct me if I’m wrong but the last “mainline” British airline accident with mass casualties was probably back in the 90’s. Same with Germany, Italy…. I think it’s rather a sign of safety improving greatly. Last serious accident of a European mainli...
Jump to postMy neighbor who used to work for Boeing said exactly the same thing after taking Premature Retirement - Boeing is no longer an Engineering oriented company but a company driven by Bean Counters. Everything, including safety apparently, comes after the money counting! Plus, in recent years it seems ...
Jump to postPresent day models for success are all predicated on growth, but it must be apparent to even the most half-witted that growth cannot continue indefinitely! I think some sectors of the banking industry would like to have a word with you about spreading such a false sense of realism. What could possi...
Jump to post- Overall marketing: No other commercial airline program has been even remotely as successful as the Dreamliner is/was. It's still perceived to be more advanced and better than it actually is, even within the airline industry, due to the momentum they built early on which cemented it's leading perc...
Jump to postI don't think that - I'm not sure where what I said led you to get that impression. What I'm trying to say is that the dominance of airline groups in their respective regions (Lufthansa in Austria, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland, IAG in Ireland, Spain and UK, AF-KLM in France and the Netherlands)...
Jump to postSorry, but if you think fewer competitors means more competition, I think you're going to be disappointed. I don't think that - I'm not sure where what I said led you to get that impression. What I'm trying to say is that the dominance of airline groups in their respective regions (Lufthansa in Aus...
Jump to postA merger with Wizz would be very interesting. Although this bid was rejected, I see that mergers are coming in the post COVID 19 world. I very much agree that there will be a string of mergers in the next few years. Both 9/11 and the financial crisis resulted in a slew of airline mergers and acquis...
Jump to postA merger with Wizz would be very interesting. Although this bid was rejected, I see that mergers are coming in the post COVID 19 world. I very much agree that there will be a string of mergers in the next few years. Both 9/11 and the financial crisis resulted in a slew of airline mergers and acquis...
Jump to postAs of right now, from what I can find, aircraft manufacturers are only banned from owning an airline, not an engine manufacturer. So, legally, Boeing could buy GE. antitrust is different from "legal" antitrust authorities don't want airframe manufacturers owning engine makers; they don't ...
Jump to posthttps://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/69746/hart-smith-on-outsourcing.pdf Outsourcing isn't great, except to an MBA... Since this is the second time someone has made a comment to this effect, I'm chiming in. First off, the claim that Boeing's entire supply chain *could* be vertica...
Jump to posthttps://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/69746/hart-smith-on-outsourcing.pdf Outsourcing isn't great, except to an MBA... For all the costs Boeing has cut, wouldn't it have been cheaper overall to maintain the cost structure, if it meant a better product? How on earth did you get you...
Jump to postLooks like there may be something to this A330 rumour. Airbus are reported to have filed data for low takeoff weight A330neo variants with EASA and are rumoured to be doing so for the likes of American, Delta and United, according to the German article: https://www.aero.de/news-40551/Airbus-schneid...
Jump to postCould this be the 767 replacement? If the 767s are set to be gone by 2025, the time is ticking on a replacement order. It seems to be Airbus' approach. I'm not so sure of its success since aircraft with derated engines tend to perform worse than specifically designed aircraft. Let's see if airlines...
Jump to postLooks like there may be something to this A330 rumour. Airbus are reported to have filed data for low takeoff weight A330neo variants with EASA and are rumoured to be doing so for the likes of American, Delta and United, according to the German article: https://www.aero.de/news-40551/Airbus-schneide...
Jump to postThe Executives didn't write bad code. The engineers wrote bad code. The problem with MCAS is not code, whether good or bad. The problem is using a single sensor and not letting regulators and pilots know about it. That's a system level issue that ultimately stems from the requirement to keep the ty...
Jump to postThis quote was informative. It seems like the FAA is really cracking down and finally doing their job. "Boeing build very good aeroplanes. They design very good aeroplanes I don't want to cast any doubt on that at all. It's simply how they are built and under what conditions they are now going...
Jump to post... That water vapor is a contributor to climate change, but not a cause it not contradictory as it may seem. They're talking about root cause versus contributing factors, similar to how aircraft accident investigators often do (eg - a root cause of a controls malfunction, with a contributing facto...
Jump to postMy question for hydrogen as a or the future fuel is how it is going to help us in dealing with global warming. CO2 is greenhouse gas number two. H2O is greenhouse gas number one. 60% of the greenhouse effect is due to H2O in the atmosphere (from what I've read). So, how is replacing CO2 from burnin...
Jump to postMy question for hydrogen as a or the future fuel is how it is going to help us in dealing with global warming. CO2 is greenhouse gas number two. H2O is greenhouse gas number one. 60% of the greenhouse effect is due to H2O in the atmosphere (from what I've read). So, how is replacing CO2 from burning...
Jump to postWhat exactly is he talking about? Has Boeing not lived up to the contract and paid any penalties for late deliveries? If Boeing is holding up to their agreement then he has no right to spew such nonsense. Just as bad as the people claiming 787's produced in South Carolina are unfit. Zero evidence. ...
Jump to postIn a more positive interpretation, to me, the fact that the crashes of two narrowbody aircraft are the main cause of this statistic shows just how safe flying has actually become overall. It's even more exaggerated when considering that one was shot down and the other was caused by extreme incompete...
Jump to postBut with new information, I change my mind. Now I'm completely confused as to the order history. Something else is driving the 307 sales of the 787 over the last 4 years. I've done fleet commonality sales campaigns (to have airlines switch types) and that isn't enough. Not today. Not when the 787 w...
Jump to postGeorgia, a solidly red state, has gone blue. Yet, its swing state neighbors, Florida and NC have gone red.... I would have never come close to picturing something like that 4 years ago. What drove GA leftwards while its neighbors moved to the right? Ironically, it was John Lewis' home county that p...
Jump to postWhile I do agree with you that Airbus and airlines such as American Airlines put Boeing on the back foot and that a safe implementation if MCAS is possible, we've now seen that a 737 MAX with MCAS requires additional training, breaking pilot compatibility to the NG. As such, the MAX in its initial ...
Jump to post300 in 1.5 years is an "our engineers f'd up" product. As an engineer working the aerospace industry, I'd like to disagree on your point Revelation. I don't think it was the engineers that got it wrong. I'm pretty sure it was Boeing's top management deciding to re-engine the 737 rather th...
Jump to post300 in 1.5 years in a "our pilots are masters of the plane at all times" product. .-) 300 in 1.5 years is an "our engineers f'd up" product. As an engineer working the aerospace industry, I'd like to disagree on your point Revelation. I don't think it was the engineers that got ...
Jump to postReading through this thread gives me the impression that Boeing had already got it right in the year 1981 by introducing the 757 to complement the 737 in the narrowbody segment. All it would have taken is a re-engining in the early 2000's and the 757 would be running rings around the A321neo.
Jump to postRR always demands 15 year exclusives. So I have trouble taking that rumor seriously. GE is dominating the 787 and has two Boeing exclusives. The only new Airbus frame GE wants on is the A350. The A330NEO ROI would... be negative. Lightsaber How sure are you about this? I vaguely remember reading an...
Jump to postIsn't water the number one greenhouse gas?
Jump to post767 Tanker - Assembly problems, FOD in tanks 767 Tanker - Assembly problems, FOD in tanks 787 - Assembly problems, QC issues, after battery fires and developmental problems Starliner spacecraft - software not tested; near loss of vehicle in first test mission (unmanned) where capsule failed to reac...
Jump to post"@Revelation: Yes, that's my point. The regs should drive the implementation, not the other way around. If there aren't enough computes left to do the small calculations needed to support a 'virtual AoA' then we could also create an auxillary processor "complex" to do this task. I sa...
Jump to postIt's a bit more than making MAX feel like NG, it's the 'force gradient' requirement in the FARs. The change in stick force does decrease at high angles of AoA because the repositioned nacelles generate lift as the AoA increases. The reason the reg exists is because this may induce the pilot to comp...
Jump to postThat's great that the MAX is Stable even with MCAS turned off. I think we wasted pages on debating what stable is. Without MCAS the MAX is not an unsafe aircraft. If that is the case, why aren't Boeing simply removing MCAS? As I wrote which now seems like years ago - while MCAS was needed to meet a...
Jump to postI actually see several issues. It may not be just about spending a bit of money. The existing flight computers may not have the calculation capacity (space) to handle an additional input. It may be that all that could be done with a 3rd sensor is to just disable the MCAS system and let the pilots k...
Jump to postI actually see several issues. It may not be just about spending a bit of money. The existing flight computers may not have the calculation capacity (space) to handle an additional input. It may be that all that could be done with a 3rd sensor is to just disable the MCAS system and let the pilots k...
Jump to postZiyulu wrote:Can AS start ANC to PEK with their 739 ERs?