Originally Posted by rickair7777

A350?

But regarding narrowbodies, if both mfgs just keep re-hashing their current designs airbus still has a 20-year advantage in technology out of the gate.




Airbus? A350?

Seems to be going OK.




BCA top management recently said that they have no timelne for a new NB design, the technology doesn't exist, and they'll look at it for the next decade.

Some mitigation in their favor... they may be afraid to commit to a clean-sheet design ($$$) at this moment while there's a real looming possibility that carbon hysteria will drive a need for drastic changes to current operations, which could include radical technology and designs. It would suck to make the multi- $B R&D investment now only to have the new design outlawed and have to repeat the whole process in ten or fewer years. Personally I think that's just a bean-counter excuse, not any sort of great vision, but it could turn out to be a good play.

I think their WB product line is adequate for a while.


But with all that said, I think this door incident is just going to come down to a very localized QA issue and will be easy to fix. Door frames are not hard technology, I'm sure the design is just fine, and has been for a long time. The install work was probably done on a Fri afternoon in a weed-legal state.