Manufacturing Industry
Boeing Announces "Sonic Cruiser," Dropping 747X.
Advanced Materials & Composites News, April, 2001
A discloser by the Boeing Company that it is working on a "radically different" mid-sized airplane that could fly just below the speed of sound could be a major challenge to the 555-passenger Airbus A380 superjumbo jet, according to an aircraft industry expert at the Teal Group consulting firm.
Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally announced that, "This is the airplane our customers have asked us to concentrate on. They share our view that this new airplane could change the way the world flies as dramatically as did the introduction of the jet age." He added that airlines seem eager to acquire a faster aircraft. Fig. 1 - Rendering of concept aircraft, the "sonic cruiser" According to Teal Group, a new plane...
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