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Environmental pressures may influence Boeing to offer two solutions for the 737 replacement market, although the effort on that front still is relatively low-key. Speaking to ATWOnline late last week, Commercial Airplanes President Scott Carson suggested that environmental issues are a "top priority" at Boeing and that it may move the baseline for the 737 replacement higher than the current 90-200 seats to a 130/230-seat platform. |
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He said the manufacturer is conducting trade studies on two fuselage widths and possibly could offer the market two solutions with common cockpits, wings and engines. This concept is not new and was floated as the Low Cost Modular Aircraft by a McDonnell Douglas engineer in August 1997. |
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EIS timelines of around 2013-14 have been suggested by some analysts. |
Article also says they are looking at a twin aisle design. They say that the propsed DC-11 and proposed 7J7 were to have twin aisles. Anyone have any images of the DC-11 idea? The 7J7 drawings I have seen looked like DC-9 with a rear mounted fan-prop engine. Not very wide-body.
[Edited 2007-02-19 08:36:27]