Manufacturing Industry

BOEING ANNOUNCES "SONIC CRUISER" TRANSPORT, LIKELY TO DROP 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 near 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. According to Teal Group, a new plane would allow Boeing to dominate the 200-350 seat point-to-point market.

The potential [superscript three]20XX[superscript two] jet might be targeted against the Airbus A300s and A310s, and could be a replacement for Boeing 757s and 767s. Boeing on March 21 said it had identified a set of "cost and performance" technologies that will allow the design of the new-concept airplane, variously called the 20XX, the [superscript...

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