Boeing announced earlier today that the 787 Dreamliner, its long-awaited next-generation passenger jet, will make its first test flight by the end of the year, more than two years later than originally scheduled.
Two Japanese newspapers reported on Saturday that the two companies had agreed on a comprehensive alliance in the aerospace business, including jointly developing commercial rockets and a next-generation passenger jet.
The Boeing 787, a next-generation passenger aircraft built with lightweight parts designed for fuel efficiency, will need further modifications before the first test flight can be conducted, the company said.
The chief executive of Gatwick Airport, Stuart Wingate, warned that the next generation of passenger airplanes would disrupt the European aviation industry.
Ministers and the British aerospace industry are preparing a co-ordinated response to the collapse of the £28bn merger between BAE Systems and EADS, the owner of Airbus, amid fears the UK will miss out on a multibillion-pound manufacturing windfall from the next generation of passenger aircraft and helicopters.
It was hoped that hydrogen - whose volatility so spectacularly ended the hegemony of the airship when last used for flight - would provide the fuel for the next generation of passenger jets, or "cryoplanes".
Get ready for the next generation of passenger airplanes.
The House Science and Technology Committee conducts a hearing on the next generation of airline passenger screening technologies (Wednesday).
Amtrak has announced it's purchasing the next generation in energy efficient passenger trains that use approximately 2,134 BTUs per mile (which compares to 3,578 per mile for a passenger car and 3,942 per mile for domestic airplane flights).
Next year equals next generation.
Information approach to optimal sensor placement is called to assign accelerometers as effective indicators of flexible vibrations in a next-generation large passenger blended-wing-body aircraft (BWB).
