This design (above) graces the overnight update to the Airbus Global Market Forecast to 2028.
Is it a successor to the A380, already? Or intended perhaps to fill the size gap between it and the A350-1000? Or is it just a fantasy, like the original shark fin concept of how the Boeing 787 Dreamliner was (never) [...]
Tag Archives: 737
The shape of jets to come, maybe?
September 18, 2009 – 2:06 pm
Boeing CEO McNerney says 787 ‘hurts like hell’
September 6, 2009 – 9:43 am
Some more clues as to the state of the 787 project are to be found in a current Flight International story on the evolution or eventual replacement of the Boeing 737 family and its Airbus equivalent, the A320 line up.
On the question, who might decide to offer an all-new rather than re-engined upgrade to the [...]
The pressure to make news out of non-events
July 27, 2009 – 8:58 am
The turn back to Auckland of a Qantas 737-400 that had just departed for Brisbane on Saturday because it developed a cabin pressure problem wasn’t worth any of the space it was given in news media.
If it hadn’t turned back that would have been a story. Maybe even a story featuring ‘land ho’ being reported [...]
Angry Flyers Lounge-Qantas brings down the roof
July 13, 2009 – 11:32 am
A passenger on QF768 on Sunday night from Perth – Melbourne to Melbourne reports:
A bit of a rough landing at Tullamarine. A section of the ceiling housing lights on a 767-336 came off during landing.
While hard landings are often necessary when the pilot judges the conditions require a firm contact with the [...]
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