How many enterprises -- whether they make airliners or dustbins -- have performed so consistently for so long?
BAe and Dasa have also found common cause persuading Aérospatiale, their fellow shareholder in Airbus, to agree that the consortium, which makes airliners, should become a real company.France, however, seems to be going its own sweet way.
It would therefore be delighted if Europe's Airbus went ahead with plans for a new super-jumbo, the A3XX, and is talking to Airbus and its principal shareholders Aérospatiale, British Aerospace (BAe) and Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa).Boeing does not want to return to making airliners but envisages making parts of the A3XX as well as collaborating with Airbus on a new military transport aircraft.
The 787 is the first commercial airliner made substantially with lightweight carbon composites, which promise to cut fuel costs for airlines.
The Dreamliner is the first commercial airliner made substantially of lightweight carbon composites to reduce fuel costs.
The De Havilland Comet jet airliner made its debut in 1951, and yet it took a further six years before its flight was as good as this jet-age Spitfire should have been in the first place.
It was released in January 1958, a month after the epochal, swept-wing jet airliner made its maiden flight.
The Airbus A330 is a medium wide-body twin-engine jet airliner made by Airbus, a division of Airbus Group.
"Military aircraft fully meets mission requirements, with high chance of bringing crew back alive; an airliner makes money for airline, ditto passengers and crew safely delivered on a regular basis". .
VERKHNAYA SALDA, Russia — Boeing needs to make its airliners lighter, and for that it needs titanium.
This makes Russian airliners just as expensive as Boeings to operate, even though the purchase price is half as much.
