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The Boeing 737 is in serious need of a replacement:

• fly by wire to replace hydraulics
• composites to reduce airframe weight
• aero tweaks to reduce drag

This is an opportunity for Airbus and Lockheed-Martin. I don't rule out Japan, Korea, China, Russia, or India. An efficient, 737 jet replacement is a tight but open opportunity.

Bob Wilson

 

Agreed. The more I read, the more Boeing sounds like Microsoft

 

Butt the faa needs an overhaul, and new designs need to be evaluated instead of fast tracking old planes with new systems

 

Read that this morning, should make things extra interesting

 

Boeing is still promising a quick software fix and back in the sky.

Anyone who thinks expedience and profits are the priority here are welcome to be the first passengers.

If I were running an airline, I’d be having serious talks with airbus, and my lawyers would be having serious talks with boeing

 

I understand Airbus may stop production.

 

euro ch. 11?

 

Airbus to Halt Production on The Airbus A320 After Emirates Cancels Orders

Airbus to stop production of A380 superjumbo jet | UAE News | Al Jazeera
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the 380 seems to be lackluster demand. the 320 headline is a mistake?

 

Yeah there's a typo. The A320neo is a strong seller and is only going to get better while Boeing researches new ways to double down on their mistakes.

In my mind, it would be more appropriate for Boeing to go out and rent 350 or so older planes to give to their customers immediately, pay the difference in the operating costs until the FAA is ready to roll on a vastly deeper inspection & certification program.

I fly a lot for business. I want good safe planes.

Boeing spent decades building a reputation for safety, and now that's toast. Their shareholders will be clamoring for them to get back into that position of high regard, so I think they would be very open to an intense regulatory regime that lets them re-start sales and deliveries within a year, assuming the certification finds nothing lacking.

 

when i go pick up extra picnic tables or a stump grinder at U-Haul or Abby rents, i've never seen that many 777's. They must be out back

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You mean 737s. Maybe if you tried getting your stump grinder at ILFC you'd see 'em. On the other hand they might think that by 'stump grinder' you mean a new 737MAX, so check carefully.

 

777 and 787 have these. A little bit of fly-by-wire was added in the 737MAX.

I thought that this happens with nearly every revision.

A320neo was actually ahead of the 737MAX. Boeing was playing catchup.

 

are american college students still socially conscious? seems all they want is to get into the best schools that will get them the most money

 

'garuda airlines looks to cancel 737 orders', 'our people have lost confidence'.

further down the rabbit hole, ny times: 'documents show boeing fell way behind airbus, and expedited a 737 update at the expense of safety to avoid losing a large order. instead of a new plane which might take ten years, they redesigned the 737 in 3 months.'

 

Next up: Who is the "they" in the above statement? I'd love to see someone with journalistic resources tug at that thread. Boeing has been outsourcing quite a lot of the business of building airplanes.

Some of it is real outsourcing, contracts with other companies. Some of it isn't quite the same, as in the case of their Moscow design department.

They've been doing some level of contracting forever, but I have a vague sense that they've promoted it to the point where that's how most of their planes get built. I'd love to learn more on that topic.

 

Opps.