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seahawk

Re: Second tier advanced fighter projects news and discussion

The Korean design does not look bad at all. The roll-out showed no obviously wrong details or parts that seemed to be for show only. Not stealthy per se, but sure a nice RCS reduction compared to a 4th gen. should have been achieved.

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seahawk

Re: Boeing's 737 Max has new problem that will require electrical inspection

Total non-story, mistakes happen.

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seahawk

Re: Boeing CEO's Comments On Their Next Airplane

I simply recommend looking at what the engine OEMs and their large suppliers are saying, to get a reality check on future airliners. Nearly all plans involve evolutions of existing technology, either upgrading the core for the GTF or adding the gear to the non GTF engines. After that it will be comp...

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seahawk

Re: Boeing CEO's Comments On Their Next Airplane

Although if that does happen I don't think they will share the same wing as you won't have enough range in a -7 or the -5 would do something crazy like 6,500NM. Just like in the Leeham article which seems to show the -5 with a wing significantly smaller. I would expect all three NMA to share the sa...

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Re: WN - A220 vs MAX "Never A Competition"

I think the 737 could very well see another generation of engines by 2030-35. To compete against the new cleansheet NB offering of Airbus? Sounds like a plan! Who says their will be one. PW talks about the next evolution of the GTF, which could bring 10% fuel burn reduction while keeping the same f...

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Re: WN - A220 vs MAX "Never A Competition"

I think the 737 could very well see another generation of engines by 2030-35.

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seahawk

Re: WN - A220 vs MAX "Never A Competition"

Different types do not necessarily create more costs, if each subfleet is big enough. This entirely depends on your infrastructure. If you have a MRO branch that is already working on different types for other airlines and a training branch that also handles different types for other customers, the ...

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seahawk

Re: F-15X has no mission!

You mean certified for a cancelled program?

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seahawk

Re: New FCAS Unveiled by Dassault for France, Germany & Spain

Lots of money for a plane that will be obsolete when entering production.

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seahawk

Re: F-15X has no mission!

I wholly disagree. Stealth is not an evolution off the current branch of fighter combat. It has started a different branch. Besides the dicotomy of a stealthy fighter and radar use, you have the current limitation of the high temperature composite and stealth coating maintenance. If manufacturing e...

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seahawk

Re: Airport Neighbors Unhappier Than Ever About Noise, Despite Quieter Planes

Sometimes you need to experience quiet to understand how loud it was. Since COVID I find the planes a lot louder, because now there are periods of quiet.

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seahawk

Re: European Commission Vaccination Strategy News and Discussion Thread

June 2022?

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seahawk

Re: European Commission Vaccination Strategy News and Discussion Thread

Still AZ delivered 25% of all doses. So with no AZ the EU won´t be done with the process till 2022.

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Re: Southwest Orders 100 MAX + 155 Options

The signal is, that the economics work for SW.

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Re: European Commission Vaccination Strategy News and Discussion Thread

That article makes one huge mistake, as the question is not AZ or no vaccine, but AZ or other vaccines 2 months later.

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seahawk

Re: European Commission Vaccination Strategy News and Discussion Thread

Good analysis on EU´s the failure of getting people vaccines. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/world/europe/europe-coronavirus-vaccine.html And one extra about the utter and complete failure of Germany in the crisis. https://www.ft.com/content/bc5a3b02-a90d-4206-a441-1bada29feba2 Yes more US sour...

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seahawk

Re: European Commission Vaccination Strategy News and Discussion Thread

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/worl ... ccine.html

And one extra about the utter and complete failure of Germany in the crisis.

https://www.ft.com/content/bc5a3b02-a90 ... ada29feba2

seahawk

Re: F-15X has no mission!

The F-15EX buy is total waste of money. More F-35s would have been the way. It like ordering a bi-plane fighter instead of an F-4 in 1960. (yes, the F-15 is that old)

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seahawk

Re: European Commission Vaccination Strategy News and Discussion Thread

Is not a perfect solution? The EU thinks AZ is not safe, so the missing supply is no longer a problem and AZ can concentrate on other countries, which want their safe and effective vaccine.

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seahawk

Re: Boeing CEO's Comments On Their Next Airplane

The airline industry is a global market. Boeing talking to the FAA is nice, but it is no longer enough. You want all regulators on board and they will want to hear the OEMs under their respective jurisdiction. The time when everybody simply rubber stamped the FAA´s decision are over. And in Russia o...

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seahawk

Re: Boeing CEO's Comments On Their Next Airplane

A fully digital CFRP design, can have 5 different and yet perfectly optimized versions with ease. Digital engineering takes away a lot of time and allows for a optimized, flexible and automated production line. This allows totally new concepts to work and the 2-3-2 is an obvious solution to match qu...

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Re: European Commission Vaccination Strategy News and Discussion Thread

Given that the “unreliable” EU is delivering more to a fellow Commonwealth country than the UK’s done to date (0 doses, 0% - take your pick), might want to check the Brexiteer-y jingoism at the door. This may derail the thread, but during the Brexit threads it was stated time and time again that th...

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seahawk

Re: Boeing CEO's Comments On Their Next Airplane

Could also be that BA is the only (Western) OEM doing a clean-sheet right now. cheers While I am sure that Airbus is interested... this is not an issue that they have to worry about for at least another decade... and I don't think they want to really be part of the R&D efforts to figure out wha...

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seahawk

Re: Boeing CEO's Comments On Their Next Airplane

The big steps in order for a new clean sheet: 1. Cockpit functionality and programming - it needs to meet the new FAA / EASA requirements for here on out, probably a very different architecture. . The strange thing is, that Boeing talks about that, but we have not seen Airbus, Embraer, any of the b...

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seahawk

Re: Southwest Orders 100 MAX + 155 Options

Fantastic news. On the other hand the distribution is between the -8 and the -7 does seem to indicate that the traffic growths expectation are not too high.

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seahawk

Re: Boeing CEO's Comments On Their Next Airplane

No other manufacturer seems eager to launch a new program any time soon. So if Boeing wants to launch something new first, they are the first that have to jump the hurdle and right now no one seems to know how high this hurdle is. So Boeing has to design a new cockpit and prove it safe and then all...

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seahawk

Re: Boeing CEO's Comments On Their Next Airplane

The big steps in order for a new clean sheet: 1. Cockpit functionality and programming - it needs to meet the new FAA / EASA requirements for here on out, probably a very different architecture. . The strange thing is, that Boeing talks about that, but we have not seen Airbus, Embraer, any of the b...

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seahawk

Re: Boeing CEO's Comments On Their Next Airplane

The big steps in order for a new clean sheet: 1. Cockpit functionality and programming - it needs to meet the new FAA / EASA requirements for here on out, probably a very different architecture. . The strange thing is, that Boeing talks about that, but we have not seen Airbus, Embraer, any of the b...

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seahawk

Re: Qantas 738 replacement competition

RJMAZ wrote:
VSMUT wrote:
2. You don't have to use the range or payload.

But you still have to carry around the extra structure weight for the ability to have the extra range or payload.

A 10% higher MTWO comes with a price in efficiency, which makes the Boeing numbers probably rather conservative.

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Re: European Commission Vaccination Strategy News and Discussion Thread

sevenair wrote:
Oh dear EU. Saying you're against vaccine nationalism, yet practicing vaccine nationalism. Saying you're against fake news, yet repeatedly spreading fake news. Oh dear oh dear! I'm embarrassed for them.

And still the EU will probably the last to finally protect the citizens.

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seahawk

Re: Qantas 738 replacement competition

https://www.boeing.com/commercial/737max10/index.page

seahawk

Re: Red Arrows are safe after Ministry of Defence plans to retire entire fleet of 76 Hawk T1 aircraft

Cut such luxury. If you retire they type you retire the whole fleet.

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Re: Qantas 738 replacement competition

Maybe 737-8s and launch customers for the 797, as QF really wants the MoM.

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Re: European Commission Vaccination Strategy News and Discussion Thread

Yes, this will only stand if you can actually decide to get a vaccine shot or not. As long as the government decides if you can get a shot, this won´t fly.

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Re: Germany Future MPA Aircraft News and Discussion Thread

It is a tender that won´t survive the coming elections anyway. After that the best they will get is some basic MPA.

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seahawk

Re: Boeing CEO's Comments On Their Next Airplane

If there is a 20 year market for 24,000 180 seat aircraft, if half that shifts up to 200-250 seats, that is a large potential future market. 12,000 aircraft at 225 seats with 3,000nm range. So ya, I think if they build a light twin aisle with good engine competition, it is irrelevant if it is a sta...

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seahawk

Re: Boeing CEO's Comments On Their Next Airplane

Sorry, I never even considered the idea, that they could pick an engine without having the OEMs compete for the deal. No problem. That's where things were left when Calhoun put the program on ice shortly after becoming CEO. PW was ruled out early, RR withdrew itself on financial/business grounds, a...

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Re: Boeing CEO's Comments On Their Next Airplane

That's akin to saying Boeing learned nothing from MCAS. What is needed is competition. The iteration of 2019-20 of NMA had LEAP with some incremental improvements. If GE is willing to offer a scaled down GE9x that would be a new development. Competition has advantages and drawbacks. If the market i...

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Re: Boeing CEO's Comments On Their Next Airplane

Why should they need the Ultrafan. A scaled down development of the GE9nx would make a lot more sense and would surely be a much safer bet considering the problem with RR engines on the 787. That's akin to saying Boeing learned nothing from MCAS. What is needed is competition. The iteration of 2019...

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seahawk

Re: European Commission Vaccination Strategy News and Discussion Thread

The EU should just start doing what others have been doing from the start, and effectively all but block vaccine export, to the excepttion of some humanitarian deliveries which it can then widely brag about. Thanks to its export registration scheme, the EU knows for a fact there have been over 40M ...

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seahawk

Re: Boeing CEO's Comments On Their Next Airplane

That is quite a big margin... Given that there are not many hard facts, this is logical. Is that for the whole market segment or solely Boeing? And are the A321neo, XLR, a330 and future A322 part of the market if it is for the whole market? Not that I am doubting your logic, just curious... The wid...

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seahawk

Re: Boeing CEO's Comments On Their Next Airplane

Why should they need the Ultrafan. A scaled down development of the GE9nx would make a lot more sense and would surely be a much safer bet considering the problem with RR engines on the 787.

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seahawk

Re: Which aircraft will replace the Airbus A330-200 at Air France?

787s.

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seahawk

Re: Boeing CEO's Comments On Their Next Airplane

JonesNL wrote:
seahawk wrote:
Market analysis sees a market for 2000-5000 frames.

That is quite a big margin...

Given that there are not many hard facts, this is logical.

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seahawk

Re: Boeing CEO's Comments On Their Next Airplane

Market analysis sees a market for 2000-5000 frames.

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Re: B737MAX Still considered for IAGs future fleet

Why should they not switch all IAG single aisle ops to the MAX? The group has been receiving brand new A320N and A321NX for the last three years, there's no way they are switching all single aisle operations to the MAX in the foreseeable future. I'm sure IAG is seriously evaluating the MAX for LGW ...

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seahawk

Re: B737MAX Still considered for IAGs future fleet

Why should they not switch all IAG single aisle ops to the MAX?

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Re: New Norwegian low-cost Norse Atlantic Airways announced

At least a brave idea, when nobody knows how travel will look in the future and how customer interests will have changed.

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Re: European Commission Vaccination Strategy News and Discussion Thread

The EU bet on 6 horses and one of those (AZ) can’t deliver according to plan. Most other horses are doing well. Yes, but they are too slow to change the horses quickly. It is good to see Pfizer over perform and I hope J+J will also deliver as promised. That fact that AZ keeps delays secret as long ...

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seahawk

Re: European Commission Vaccination Strategy News and Discussion Thread

No, it is the exactly the same. The UK did act, the EU did bet on the wrong horses. (French vaccine) The "French" vaccine (half French, half British actually) was one of 6, and not even the largest among the advance P/O. 300 Pfizer - BioNTech 300+100 AZ 300 Sanofi - GSK 200+200 Janssen 22...

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