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Boeing lost the military contract, but its private-venture 747 would later capture a much larger civilian airliner market for wide-body airliners. Having experienced difficulties with some of its military programs, Lockheed was eager to re-enter the civilian market with a smaller wide-body jet, and its response was the L-1011 TriStar.
The design was similar in concept to the Airbus A3XX and Boeing New Large Airplane, and it would have been larger than the Boeing 747 with which it would have directly competed. Douglas Aircraft also studied a smaller double-decker design in the 1960s for the aircraft that would eventually become the DC-10. [5] [6]
Dassault Supersonic Business Jet – suspended; Aerion AS2 [3] - Suspended; Sukhoi-Gulfstream S-21; Boom Technology Overture - 3-engine design proposed, but changed to 4-engine; Boeing 777 – Originally envisioned as a trijet 767 in the 1970s to compete with the DC-10 and the L-1011; later became a new twin-engine design.
The rushed introduction to service of poorly tested aircraft happened previously with another Tupolev project that had high political visibility and prestige: the Tu-104 passenger jet-liner was the first successful Soviet passenger jet in service. In a decision-making similar to the Tu-144-story, the Soviet government introduced the Tu-104 into ...
Lufthansa's more than two dozen 747 jets are expected to cover 21 routes from Frankfurt in 2025, totaling about 12,000 flights, per Cirium. That's about 63% of next year's total scheduled 747 flights.
The Airbus A380 is larger than any Boeing commercial airliner, including the then-flagship Boeing 747-400. The Boeing NLA, or New Large Airplane, was a 1990s concept for an all-new quadjet airliner in the 500+ seat market. [1] With a proposed size somewhat larger than the 747, it was a similar concept to the McDonnell Douglas MD-12 and later ...
According to people in the know, Boeing looks like it’s discontinuing its iconic 747 jumbo jet. The news comes from a Bloomberg report that cites “people familiar with the matter,” who say ...
The Boeing 747 is a long-range wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States between 1968 and 2023. After the introduction of the 707 in October 1958, Pan Am wanted a jet 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 times its size, to reduce its seat cost by 30%.