Showing posts with label Boeing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boeing. Show all posts
Saturday, April 2, 2016

Is the MOM airliner single aisle or twin aisle?

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Boeing is arguing this out internally right now.  MOM is Middle of the Market in case you had not heard.  Single aisle is a smaller jet line...
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Middle of the Market (MOM) airliner

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Boeing is talking about doing a new airliner to be a MOM airliner.  Airbus is competing furiously, and Boeing wants a magic product to take ...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Long Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) program halted.

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The losers (Lockheed Martin and Boeing) filed a protest of the contract award to Northrup Grumman.  GAO ordered a stop work for 100 days whi...
Thursday, June 18, 2015

Making haste slowly, and cost enhancement

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After two previous snafu's, Boeing got the Air Force contract for the KC-46 tanker.  That only took 7 or 8 years of well paid lawyer wor...
Saturday, June 13, 2015

EPA gets airborne

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The EPA just claimed jurisdiction over the world's airlines.  They are gonna publish regulations on aircraft emissions.  Not that this w...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

International Aviation Market Forecast for 2015

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Interesting chart in Aviation Week about commercial aircraft production.  Comercial being jetliners, regional jet liners, utility aircraft. ...
Thursday, January 23, 2014

Some smoke, no fire

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Boeing's mods to the 787 battery system are at least partially successful.  On 14 Jan, this year, A JAL 787 started to smoke while stand...
Monday, November 25, 2013

Picky software reduces dispatch reliability of 787 Dreamliners

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The 787 has more powerful computers than anything flying, more sensors for temperature and pressure and such than ever before, and the softw...
Monday, October 21, 2013

Airbus wins Japan Airlines Order

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Japan Airlines just signed a deal to buy 31 A350 airliners from Airbus.  At $200 million each, this is $12 billon in sales, quite a chunk of...
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Advanced countries, jet airliner production.

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Jet airliners,  70 seats and up.  Anything less is a puddlejumper.  Listing of production forecasts from Aviation Week. Country           ...
Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Goldie Oldie takes a hit from rank newbie

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Last month, it looked like South Korea was going to buy 60 F15's.  Now we are not so sure.  The Koreans have announced they have re open...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Goldie Oldie still competitive

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South Korea is shopping for 60 new jet fighter planes.  There were gonna buy the brand new F35.  But the Boeing salesman have been active an...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Suits never learn

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Aviation Week interviewed Boeing CEO Jim McNerney.  Aviation Week:  "In retrospect, was the amount of weight you saved with Lithium I...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Take no small slips

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The Boeing 787 Dreamliner program has just announced that the plane is going to be 6 months late. This flagship program, with 710 confirme...