The plane will be a single-aisle airliner, carrying up to 200 passengers, intended to compete with Boeing 737s and Airbus 320s.
This study aimed to design a desirable thermal environment for a single-aisle airliner cabin and used the CFD-based adjoint method to find the optimal design variables of air supply locations, size, and parameters.
The company, which assembles the single-aisle airliner in Renton, Wash., said it is going to build 737s at the increased rate of 42 airplanes per month.
Just south of Marana at the Tucson airport, the asset management company Victory Park Capital, based in Chicago, owns Ascent Aviation Services, which stores planes and maintains and repairs smaller, single-aisle airliners.
Embraer in Brazil and Bombardier in Canada are moving up from smaller regional jets to big ones; and Russia's Irkut and China's Comac are entering the international market for single-aisle airliners.
Until now, GECAS, the world's largest single buyer of airliners, has purchased or financed only GE-powered new airliners.
The Boeing 717 is a twin-engine, single-aisle jet airliner with up to 138 seats, depending on the configuration.
A new Boeing 737, the single-aisle, medium-size airliner that's a domestic workhorse for most carriers, costs about $50 million.
The regional carriers once operated under rules that were less stringent than those for the major carriers in several ways; for example, two-engine commuter planes did not have to be able to perform as well on a single engine as big airliners did, important in case of engine failure, and pilots were allowed to work longer hours.
