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Jump to postI'm not sure I agree that the -100 models of Boeing airliners weren't successful. Though relatively few 737-100s and 747-100s were built, it's not fair to say they weren't successful; rather they were replaced by improved models.
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There are probably ways to solve the technical issues, but I think the main problem is human factors. How do people feel about sitting in a long row of seats with little or no windows. I suppose large <acronym title="Louis Trichardt (LCD / FALO / FALT), South Africa">LCD</acronym>'s with access to o...
Jump to postThe comment was made about the size difference between the A350 and the 787. Is the 787 about the same size as the 767? If so, the A350 wouldn't appear to be a direct competitor nearly so much as a it would be an improvement over an already well proven airplane (A330) and would thus fill the future ...
Jump to postResponse to the following: I have to agree with AirRyan on the late-model F-16s for the T-Birds. The only other aircraft the airforce has they could use would be the F-15 and maybe the F/A-22 now that it is comming on line. Some thing tells me though that the Raptor is a bit too spendy to use in tha...
Jump to postI agree that Avianca would be a great candidate for the 787. I'm kind of surprised they don't have the 777.
Jump to postMy guess is that Boeing will be the first with a new narrow body airplane. A friend of mine in Germany told me that Boeings are considered much too heavy and the design is too old. If this reflects what many Europeans in the aviation industry there actually think, it follows that they probably expec...
Jump to postIt appears Boeing leaves the -100 model number open so that, should they decide to produce a shorter version of the basic airplane, they have an appropriate model number to assign to it. I recall Boeing studied a shorter version of the 757 and I believe they also studied a shorter version of the 777...
Jump to postPerhaps they're for US<acronym title="Air France">AF</acronym>. We know they're going to get a whole bunch. And they have a history of things showing up in the UFO column. Forgive me not knowing how to copy what someone else said better than I did this time. I'll learn the technique soon enough. Mea...
Jump to postIt is very surprising to see Japan Airlines, which is a very good airline, ordering the 767 when the 787 isn't that far down the pike. Might it be a favor to Boeing, based on the desire to maintain a long standing good relationship? That's possible, a symbol of support for the company that been the ...
Jump to postThis one was running, though. Exhaust and heat and everything.
I suspect that the heat you saw was exhaust from the nearest running engine or set of engines. Wind can blow that around under and airplane where you can be misled as to what's really going on.
I've often wondered why the 767-400 didn't take off as a freighter. It had the operating economics and conversion to a freighter model shouldn't have been that hard. Boeing had developed the 767-300 freighter and it appeared to have sold well.
Jump to postWill the airplane run into the same obstacles from U.S. environmentalists as Concorde did? Bear in mind what happened to the Boeing SST many years ago. The obstacles became so great that Boeing wasn't even allowed to build two prototypes for pure research work. I fear Japan and France will run into ...
Jump to postI had understood also that Boeing is the sole source for large commercial jets for American. Does American have an escape clause in that contract?
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