Boeing Concerned about 321XLR Safety
Their concern about fuel tanks seems a legit discussion item to me, but this kind of theoretically constructive industry commentary doesn't usually make the news.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-a...-idUSKCN2AU2RJ |
https://i.ibb.co/Sc6kSvn/B81-F0-A5-C...-E9-F8-A43.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/pnbqGVG/D680-F072-E...5-C8594-C2.jpg Were I of a suspicious nature, I might view this as attempting to scuttle a rival..... |
Could have told them to do this a decade ago. Between the 737 and the 787.
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This is more Boeing business chicanery. It’s kinda their thing.
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You would think McDonald-Douglas was running the company.
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A purpose-built mid-size plane would have to be more efficient than a stretch 321. If only they can build one before the XLR consumes all of the market niche...
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Originally Posted by Huell
(Post 3201939)
You would think McDonald-Douglas was running the company.
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
(Post 3202010)
A purpose-built mid-size plane would have to be more efficient than a stretch 321. If only they can build one before the XLR consumes all of the market niche...
No, it was Boeing who tried to stretch an existing aircraft a model too far with the MAX. They should have had a 757 follow-on waiting in the wings a decade ago. Now they are trapped in lag for at least a few years, more likely a decade. |
Originally Posted by Excargodog
(Post 3202058)
Aerodynamically more efficient? Possibly. Economically more efficient when you consider the existing A320 family worldwide logistics and training infrastructure? Far less likely.
Boeing has a well established support network. |
Originally Posted by rickair7777
(Post 3202091)
Boeing has a well established support network. And SAF is still buying indulgences from the church of the envirowackoes. It makes more sense to continue to pump Jet-A and offset it by producing non-carbon power on the ground, through geothermal, hydroelectric (rare and inconsequential minnows be damned), and nuclear until we can get working fusion power plants. That’s still buying indulgences, but at least you are buying them at a cheaper rate. |
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