Boeing hints at mid-market aircraft elements
Boeing will leverage technology from the Boeing 777 and 787 when pulling together the design for its proposed middle of the market aircraft, Boeing VP and GM-airplane development Mike Delaney said Tuesday. The new aircraft, if it goes ahead, will use “proven technology to create crossover economics”. Boeing is under pressure from several airlines, especially the US majors, to develop a direct replacement for the 757 single-aisle aircraft. Delaney was vague on many aspects of the new aircraft. A slide from his presentation, for example, made reference to a “hybrid cross-section”; pressed on whether this referred to a physical fuselage width somewhere between current single- and twin-aisle types, he fell back on the phrase “It’s a geometry that enables single-aisle economics with twin-aisle comfort,” without explaining further. <br/>
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Boeing hints at mid-market aircraft elements
Boeing will leverage technology from the Boeing 777 and 787 when pulling together the design for its proposed middle of the market aircraft, Boeing VP and GM-airplane development Mike Delaney said Tuesday. The new aircraft, if it goes ahead, will use “proven technology to create crossover economics”. Boeing is under pressure from several airlines, especially the US majors, to develop a direct replacement for the 757 single-aisle aircraft. Delaney was vague on many aspects of the new aircraft. A slide from his presentation, for example, made reference to a “hybrid cross-section”; pressed on whether this referred to a physical fuselage width somewhere between current single- and twin-aisle types, he fell back on the phrase “It’s a geometry that enables single-aisle economics with twin-aisle comfort,” without explaining further. <br/>
