What if... Boeing and Airbus merged?
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Posted 13 December 2005 - 01:46 AM
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Posted 13 December 2005 - 08:47 PM
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Posted 13 December 2005 - 09:03 PM
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Posted 13 December 2005 - 09:45 PM
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Posted 13 December 2005 - 09:50 PM
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Posted 13 December 2005 - 10:09 PM
Competition is usually a good thing, but It can also be bad, look where so many airlines have put the U.S. industry. It would be nice if they could at least work on a new alternate-energy jet.
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Posted 03 January 2006 - 01:36 PM
You saw that episode of Modern Marvels then huh? Commercial Jets. Good show. See how they screwed up though, on the A330? They said it was designed to compete with Boeing's 737. Um, yeah - I think that was the A320 they meant. I've a SwissAir A330 at KBOS sitting at one of Delta's old gates at Terminal C - it's a giant! At first, I thought it was a 777 but, the winglets gave it away.
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Posted 22 January 2006 - 07:12 PM
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Posted 22 January 2006 - 07:36 PM
I got it off the History Channel. Just what some experts thought. Keep in mind though, I am sure there were people who said the same thing when we (the U.S.) had four big aircraft makers. Three of them merged, and the other one stopped making passenger jets. Imagine the tech. that could come out of that merger. An Airbus (who created fly-by-wire) and Boeing (who created a fully composite plane) would allow the formerly two companies from worrying about falling behind in the market, and allow them to get into some serious development projects. The bwb, A new SST, and a alternate-energy jet.
airbus did not creat fly by wire. they missed that by about 20 years.
Two Airbus A300-600
Two Airbus A318
One Airbus A319-100
One Airbus A321-200
One Boeing 747-400ER
Three Airbus A330-300
Two BAE Systems Avro RJ85
Two Bombardier Q400
Three Fairchild Dornier 328
Five Embraer ERJ-145XR
Seven ATR-42-500
Two ATR 72-500
Fifteen Beech B-1900D
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Posted 24 January 2006 - 05:44 PM
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Posted 25 January 2006 - 11:24 PM
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Posted 26 January 2006 - 04:49 AM
airbus did not creat fly by wire. they missed that by about 20 years.
They might not have invented FBW, however they were the first manufacturer to have an airplane controlled completely by computers and no direct mechanical linkage between Flight Control and Control Surface. Even on the Brand New B777... The pilot is still connected to the control surface...
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