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[airline55]

Well, for one it would create a super-company.

[Atlantic_Air]

and Airbus would have to be seriously drunk

[airline55]

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.

[StephenM]

Bad for business if there is no competition.

[piercey]

hell would freeze over, followed by delta exiting bankruptcy, North Korea getting rid of the nukes and Iran stops hating us (US)

[airline55]

never, it will take time, After China gets tough, and give Iran 20 yrs.

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.

[Skycap]

Iran? Forget 20 years, how about, never! We are allied with Israel and Iran will ALWAYS hate Israel so they'll always hate us too. We could get into the whole deal about Isaac and Ishmael but, I digress...

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.

[HADC10]

The federal government wouldn't allow it, unless Lockheed Martin started making commercial a/c again. Also, how would a/c be designated? A777?

[daveh55]

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.

[VC-10]

They were the first with an Airliner that is completely fly-by-wire (I think that some of the A310s had some fly-by-wire), even the new 748 is not 200% fly-by-wire.

[RmTrice]

It could be possible, but not for a really, really long time.

[TorqueWrench]

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...