Quote:
Originally Posted by madmax757
Do you think it would be possible for Boeing to just remove the Leap engines , change the pylon and put on the old CFMs and call it a 737-800 ish? Sell them cheap and then do a clean sheet design ? It’s really not
Looking good at this point.
Any engineer types know ?
Short Term:
Utterly impractical on many levels. Most significantly, if the NG could compete with NEO, they wouldn't have built the max in the first place.
Long Term:
Lots of (government sponsored) new technology on the horizon to dramatically reduce fuel burn/carbon/emissions. It will take a LOT of R&D money to implement (likely drastic changes to aircraft configuration), so both Boeing and Airbus decided not to drop tens of billions in a clean-sheet narrowbody which might be obsolete in ten years. Normally they would have, and just saved the new tech for the NEXT generation a few decades down the line but regulatory and/or political pressure is very likely to force the implementation of said technology as soon as it's ready (2030, maybe sooner?).
06-29-2019
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