The 757 question
There is an increasing amount of news flow on the question of the replacement for the 757. Aviation Week’s Guy Norris put out a good story on the challenges this process has to go through. Of course the decision on…
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Will Synthetic Schlieren Photography Result in the End of “Stealth”?
Last fall, NASA released some photographs of its synthetic Schlieren photography that captured the sonic boom of a supersonic jet in flight. Recently, the government decided to classify the high resolution photographs from that release, although low resolution images, such…
Airbus’ Commercial Order History
Airbus is the European aerospace success story. Quietly, the company met a requirement for a medium range twin when Boeing and Douglas were uninterested. There is a story that American’s CEO CR Smith had asked Douglas for a twin DC-10,…
SINGAPORE WRAP-UP
The Singapore Airshow seems elegantly understated when compared with the brashness of Dubai, the bustle of Paris, or the more stoic nature of Farnborough. If Paris 2011 was the year of the neo, Farnborough 2012 the year of the MAX,…
Boeing’s Commercial Order History
Commercial aerospace is a long run business. The gestation of new programs takes years. Of late, add a few more years to the newer and vastly more complex aircraft programs. In studying the following chart, note how Boeing has started…
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