Would you all agree with this? If not, which part do you disagree with? 1) Many missions do not require stealth, and are best done without paying the cost of stealth. Examples: ground attack and patrol. 2) If it's a deep penetration raid into a serious air defense system, or a head-to-head BVR air ...
Jump to postProbably the elegant way to buy nothing.
Jump to postWhy do you give a freighter a livery? Plain white would do, especially if you do many wetleases.
Jump to postNot 2, as any advantages in signal processing will not change the difference between a stealthy and a non stealthy target.
Jump to postWhy would htey do this, when the -10 just had it´s first flight? The MAX has many succesful years ahead of it. It depends on how you measure successful. If you look at the numbers in isolation, as in selling an airframe and making money of it, the 737MAX can be successful, but you need to write of ...
Jump to postWhy add another type anyway. Just follow up with more KC-46s and be done with it.
Jump to post4 it is. Against F-35 the types you mentions are just targets.
Jump to postWhy would htey do this, when the -10 just had it´s first flight? The MAX has many succesful years ahead of it.
Jump to postYou do not need the same fuselage diameter for that either. If planed for a robotic line can do varsious fuselage diameters without extra costs.
Jump to postUA444 wrote:Still curious why this and others hasn’t gotten interest from cargo carriers yet. Some of DL’s have.
I think that is just wrong. The accountants also drooled about the idea of an A380-1000, which would allow you to fly the same number of pax as 4 747s with only 2 A380s. Half the crews, half the flights, and probably less than half the fuel consumption - what is not to like about it? They failed whe...
Jump to postThe strategic decision was never hard. If Boeing is not outright lying, the 737-8 is competitive and making them money. The 787 is dominating the A330. So the outlook is that they should be okay in any tender up to 737-8 size. Suffering with the 737-9 and 737-10 and winning with the 787. Doing a new...
Jump to postWell to be honest your side has made it easy by their own incompetence the past decade or so. I don't understand why posters get angry at other posters when it is their favourite OEM causing them the grief. As for your post, well we know the histories of the aircraft. You are trying to be clever to...
Jump to postOutside the medical professionals working with vulnerable persons, I think it is not the time to go after those unwilling to take a vaccine and the resources would be better spent on sending those shots to people desperately wanting to get vaccinated. Once we have offered a chance to get the shot to...
Jump to postAnd that means enough people on the global scale. 90% vaccinated in the USA and 5% in Africa, won´t help unless you restrict travel.
Jump to postAnd those variants will propagate anyway, as long we are not reaching a global herd immunity or as long as we do severely restrict travel.
Jump to postWould it not be easier to vaccinate the vulnerable and not force healthy and informed people to take the vaccine?
Jump to postAnd as far as I know the US has an ample supply of vaccines with no such limitations. Other countries do have a limited supply and limitations on the use of some vaccines.
Jump to postHouston Methodist has 22,000+ employees. Their HR department is likely 50 people or less. The type of analysis you're describing will never happen at an employer this large - it's costly and impractical given the situation. Well, it would be down to the employee to show why the vaccination is an un...
Jump to postNobody is being forced to do anything. They can make a choice. 1) Get the vaccine 2) Get a different job. Methodist is the hospital where everyone wants to work. Good culture. Good pay. Good resources for patient care. You don't have a fundamental right to work there (or anywhere, really). If you w...
Jump to postForcing people to take the vaccine is a crime imho. Nobody is being forced to do anything. They can make a choice. 1) Get the vaccine 2) Get a different job. Methodist is the hospital where everyone wants to work. Good culture. Good pay. Good resources for patient care. You don't have a fundamental...
Jump to postI think 40% marketshare might be optimistic this decade. On top of that price/ margin is essential. I agree and that's really the point. Boeing was losing market share even before the pandemic and the MAX debacle. I get all the arguments about the economics of a new airplane being prohibitive, but ...
Jump to postIn this instance people are not being forced to take a vaccine. A medical faculty is acknowledging that the threat posed by SARS-coronavirus-2 can be mitigated by vaccination (the data to support this view are overwhemling) ergo if you want to work there you are obliged to mitigate threat you pose....
Jump to postOf course they'll bid, but there's only slightly more than a snowball's chance that that bid will be successful (and I'd argue) even considered on anything more than a superficial basis for fiscal responsibility, barring a default exclusivity. I think we will see. the GTF surely has changed the gen...
Jump to postForcing people to take the vaccine is a crime imho. In this instance people are not being forced to take a vaccine. A medical faculty is acknowledging that the threat posed by SARS-coronavirus-2 can be mitigated by vaccination (the data to support this view are overwhemling) ergo if you want to wor...
Jump to postWhen Airbus or Boeing are looking for a new engine for a widebody, P&W will bid.
Jump to postForcing people to take the vaccine is a crime imho.
Jump to postBoeing HAS to make the Max a winning program, it’s not just about restoring their good name but they need to buy time while new technologies mature, particularly engines This is going to be a few years, it would be senseless to start developing a clean sheet 737 replacement now without a step chang...
Jump to postWe see developments looking at piston engines up to around 2000HP, it makes sense that the turboprop/ open rotor then aims for the lower thrust turbofans.
Jump to postI wonder if this was that "big announcement" instead of that supersonic plane. Seems to me GE + Safran as CFM announcing a new open-rotor design for the mid-2030s will be much more disruptive to the airliner business than any supersonic plane will be. The engine industry is always the bes...
Jump to postA conventional fuel burning tube with wings is a risky solution anyway,. Maybe the replacement to the 737 are 2 airplanes. One hybrid short range optimized plane and a larger medium to long range optimized plane using conventional engines? It looks like CFM thinks the same thing, with the smaller s...
Jump to postA conventional fuel burning tube with wings is a risky solution anyway,. Maybe the replacement to the 737 are 2 airplanes. One hybrid short range optimized plane and a larger medium to long range optimized plane using conventional engines?
Jump to postAs the competition is not more climate friendly or efficient, the 737 is just fine. And yes, a 737 won´t cut it in 2045, but neither would an A320.
Jump to post“El ataque de los tomates asesinos”. Yes with a difference. This is (was) a rare example of a Boeing 707-400, complete with intact Conway engines, not a cannibalised leftover to which I would have no objection even myself. But it spoiled the scenery and the picture Germans want us to have about the...
Jump to postIt is just an old plane and not some valuable relic. Good that they finally scrap it.
Jump to postTranslation: Thanks for all the money on the green initiatives, can we appy a bit of greenwash and use it as a subsidy for Air France to buy more Airbusses? There I have to disagree. Airbus did put decent work into the concept, but at the moment governments can not guarantee the availability of CO2...
Jump to postWe can’t just talk about an incremental or marginal improvement. It has to be fundamental. So you have to prove that your modeling capability can do the next airplane and the manufacturing techniques can be used at scale and are repeatable. You have seen the developmental composites on an airplane,...
Jump to postTranslation, we don't have the billions for new factories and there doesn't look to be enough competition to worry about. This will be like after the 737NG was released, a long period of improvements, but no new models. Until someone launches an innovative new model and then the market must adapt. ...
Jump to postI'm a cynic during negotiations, but if Boeing can clise the UA and FR deals as well as the already announced AS and WN orders, it gives momentum to the MAX. I consider this order likely. As you know the end result was a stalemate, UA hasn't taken -7, -700 or A220. I don't see any progress that wou...
Jump to postREUTERS mentioned split the order between A and B. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/united-airlines-talks-buy-least-100-boeing-737-max-jets-bloomberg-news-2021-06-10/ Yes a heavily one sided split. With over 100 Boeing jets and dozens of Airbus jets. With the Boeing order said to ...
Jump to postWould be good news for both sides.
Jump to postWhat a liability. A paid-off, reliable and economic fleet... I question the reliable and economic part. Delta MRO has so far kept those birds operating without any noticeable deviation from the fleet average. And considering they still have A320CEOs and 737NGs in the fleet, the 757 should be reason...
Jump to postWhat a liability. A paid-off, reliable and economic fleet...
Jump to postNoshow wrote:The wider fuselage sister 767 did surprisingly better because of the freighter and tanker. The 757 only works as a converted freighter but second hand A321s seem to take over this business.
Still, as you mentioned earlier, it has to be - 1000 specific, probably not safety related and, as Qatar is not the only operator, quite Qatar specific. Personnaly I vote for suboptimal high temperature take off capabilities My 2 cents Agréé on the point it has to be A350-1000 specific. The most in...
Jump to postBut is there a new engine in the 40-45K thrust range? The avleak report mentioned talks with suppliers, presumably the most important ones are the engine suppliers. From Wiki's NMA page: Boeing issued a request for proposals (RFP) with a June 27, 2018 deadline for a 45,000 lbf (200 kN) engine with ...
Jump to postA OEW 5t below the A321 is very close to the OEW of a 737-8.
Jump to postJonesNL wrote:A tight 6 abreast skinnier and lighter than A32x fuselage with smaller container option and optimized wing? 5t OEW advantage over the A321 should be enough to be quite competitive on the market...
Who ever doubted that the 777-8F will launch?
Jump to post“ If we are not able to settle that serious issue we have with them, we will refuse to take any aircraft from them ,” the CEO said in an interview with Bloomberg TV. Falling out with Qatar Airways, Al Baker warned, will cause Airbus “a stress in the relationship with IAG, with LatAm, with other air...
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