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Boeing New Large Airplane: 1990s: 523.6 tons 747 replacement powered by 777 engines, canceled in the 1990s Aerocon Dash 1.6 wingship: 1990s: 4921.03 tpms US ground effect aircraft, developed with Russian consultation Tupolev Tu-404: 1990s: 595.45 tons Blended wing body airliner for 1,214 passenger, 110 m wingspan [5] Sukhoi KR-860: 1990s: 639. ...
The -800 replaced directly the -400 and aging 727-200 of US airlines. It filled also the gap left by Boeing's decision to discontinue the MD-80 and MD-90 aircraft, following Boeing's merger with McDonnell Douglas. The 737-800 is the most widely used narrowbody aircraft and competes primarily with the Airbus A320. [73]
In 2010, Boeing announced plans to increase production from 5 aircraft per month to 7 aircraft per month by mid-2011, and 8.3 per month by early 2013. [83] In November 2011, assembly of the 1,000th 777, a -300ER, began when it took 49 days to fully assemble one of these variants. [ 84 ]
The Boeing 777X is the latest series of the long-range, wide-body, twin-engine jetliners in the Boeing 777 family from Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The changes for 777X include General Electric GE9X engines, composite wings with folding wingtips, greater cabin width and seating capacity, and technologies from the Boeing 787. The 777X was ...
Boeing targeted a 20 to 30 percent cost saving over earlier aircraft, mainly through new engine and wing technology. [6] As development progressed, engineers used computer-aided design for over a third of the 767's design drawings, [ 6 ] and performed 26,000 hours of wind tunnel tests. [ 16 ]
The modest stretch of the MAX 10 enables the aircraft to retain the existing wing, and the Leap 1B engine from the MAX 9 with a trailing-link main landing gear as the only major change. [201] Boeing 737 MAX Vice President and General Manager Keith Leverkuhn said the design had to be frozen in 2018, for a 2020 introduction. [198]
During the late 1990s, Boeing considered replacement aircraft programs due to slowing sales of the 767 and 747-400.Two new aircraft were proposed. The 747X would have lengthened the 747-400 and improved efficiency, and the Sonic Cruiser would have achieved 15% higher speeds (approximately Mach 0.98) while burning fuel at the same rate as the 767. [2]
The 757-200SF is a passenger to freighter conversion developed by Boeing following an order for 34 aircraft plus 10 options by DHL. [142] It entered service in 2001 with the initial ex-British Airways aircraft converted at Boeing's Wichita site [143] and subsequent blocks of aircraft converted by Israel Aerospace Industries and ST Aerospace ...