France Plans To Make Airbus A320 Successor By 2030

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 06/09/2020 at 10:47 • Filed to: wingspan, planelop

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In related news, Boeing announces plans to develop the 737-9000XX MAX PLUS EXTRA AD NAUSEUM.

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The Ghost of Oppo > ttyymmnn 06/09/2020 at 10:57

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It’s cute they think we’ll make it to 2030

facw > ttyymmnn 06/09/2020 at 10:58

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Doesn’t B oeing need longer range more than they need higher capacity?

I mean they were working on the NMA, so I guess they thought they had a gap in both range and capacity, but it seems like they are hurting more in terms of not having a longer ranger narrow body since they killed the 757.

Of course I still say that if the 787 is too expensive and the 737 is too small/short range, Boeing probably should just offer a passenger version of the KC-46, probably with an option for the 787's more efficient engines which would give them something a little smaller, and significantly less expensive up front than the 787, but with much better capacity and range than the 737. 

ttyymmnn > facw 06/09/2020 at 11:02

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You’re thinking way too hard about this, though I do agree with you. I was going for the easy gag. 

Thomas Donohue > ttyymmnn 06/09/2020 at 11:05

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I must say, I’m glad I bought the stock back in early April. It initially went down another ~20% but it’s been bonkers since then. Wish I had bought more.

On a side note, I see what you did with your lead image....  

For Sweden > facw 06/09/2020 at 11:06

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This assumes we will ever have international flights again.

ttyymmnn > Thomas Donohue 06/09/2020 at 11:07

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MrSnrub > ttyymmnn 06/09/2020 at 11:07

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I may not know much about them fancy flying machines but if I were running Boeing I’d prioritize the  737 replacement over anything and everything else.

ttyymmnn > MrSnrub 06/09/2020 at 11:09

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They should have done that years ago. But going all in on a new plane is expensive and potentially disastrous. They waited and waited and now, when it might actually be the perfect time, their pants are still down around their ankles. 

facw > ttyymmnn 06/09/2020 at 11:13

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Overthinking is fun!

facw > For Sweden 06/09/2020 at 11:14

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I think it will happen! Maybe not this summer, and maybe not as much for business, but I think people will want to go places, and will still be able to.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > ttyymmnn 06/09/2020 at 11:16

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How many will crash before Boeing admits there's a problem?

user314 > ttyymmnn 06/09/2020 at 11:23

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Longjet is long.

ttyymmnn > user314 06/09/2020 at 11:24

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I’m not sure I made it ludicrously long enough. It almost looks believable. 

user314 > ttyymmnn 06/09/2020 at 11:37

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I almost though it was real (was all set to post the Dr. Ian Malcom “ Your scientists... ” meme) , but then I noticed there’s a stepped pattern on the aft fuselage where the image was ‘shopped.  

ttyymmnn > user314 06/09/2020 at 12:02

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Yeah, I forgot to clean it up where the blue meets white. I’m no photoshop expert, by any means. Still, for somebody who knows just enough PS to be dangerous, it’s not that bad. I showed it to my son, and he said, “Needs bigger engines.” I replied that Boeing knows that...

user314 > ttyymmnn 06/09/2020 at 12:06

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Please tell me Airbus is going to call their new plane the 420!

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > facw 06/09/2020 at 12:31

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What’s the point of having brains if we aren’t using them to overthink things?

ttyymmnn > user314 06/09/2020 at 13:25

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Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > ttyymmnn 06/09/2020 at 15:36

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I came for the joke, then thought it might be real when I saw who posted it and had to look close for the photoshop traces... So yeah, coming from you it needs to be either much longer or a much more obvious PS job

:)

ttyymmnn > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 06/09/2020 at 16:26

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Maybe something more like this. I got tired tying to cover up the name so I stopped. 

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > ttyymmnn 06/09/2020 at 17:24

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Well it looks to be missing a few exit doors, but I think you’ve solved the pitch up p roblem for good. 

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > ttyymmnn 06/09/2020 at 17:40

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So, Boeing is taking the CRJ 900 approach?

After all, the Challenger was designed with stretching it into an airliner in mind when it was created  by none other than the great Bill Lear. The 737? I doubt that anyone in the ‘60s expected the 737 to morph into what it is now.

ttyymmnn > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom 06/09/2020 at 17:55

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No need for exits when MCAS puts it nose first into the ground. 

ttyymmnn > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 06/09/2020 at 17:57

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I’m reminded of what a conductor once said about Ravel’s Bolero : “It’s too bad Ravel didn’t know Bolero would be so popular. If he had known, he would have written a better piece.”

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > ttyymmnn 06/09/2020 at 18:00

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LOL!

(great song for sex though...)

ttyymmnn > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 06/09/2020 at 18:10

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Sex? What’s that?

/married for 30 years

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn 06/09/2020 at 21:39

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I think takeoff and landing might be a problem in that aircraft.

Add a tail skid - it’s gonna need it.  

ttyymmnn > WilliamsSW 06/09/2020 at 22:06

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It just needs to get up to about 500 mph on the ground so it can lift straight up. Boeing is working on the software for that right now. 

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > ttyymmnn 06/09/2020 at 23:42

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I’m at 18 years. 

pip bip - choose Corrour > ttyymmnn 06/10/2020 at 05:25

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A320 is fine

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > ttyymmnn 06/10/2020 at 09:10

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Hydrogen.   It’s the future.

ttyymmnn > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 06/10/2020 at 09:11

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It’s been the future for a long time. 

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > ttyymmnn 06/10/2020 at 10:56

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Perhaps, but it’s interesting to see “grown-ups” like Toyota, Honda and now Airbus commit to a long-term hydrogen-based transport future.

They’ll all run the math and nobody sees how batteries get good enough, fast enough to solve the big picture. We are just turning the corner on hydrogen synthesis... stuff that wasn’t feasible even 10 years ago... and have at least a dozen processes being refined for Zero Carbon Hydrogen.

Part of my long-term bullishness is seeing where Gates and Myhrvold are placing their bets.  Those guys actually ARE geniuses.

ttyymmnn > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 06/10/2020 at 22:21

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Even with electricity, though, you have all the bad stuff that goes into making the batteries, all the bad stuff that happens when you generate the electricity, and all the bad stuff that comes out of the batteries when they are dead. With an administration that is openly hostile to alternative forms of energy and openly hostile to the environment, we need a change at the tope before anything else changes meaningfully.