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My OCD now wants an aircraft manufacturer starting with a D. Airbus-Boeing-Comac-D????-Embraer. Who wants the D?
by aeharding 11y ago
My OCD now wants an aircraft manufacturer starting with a D.
Airbus-Boeing-Comac-D????-Embraer.
Who wants the D?
- sithadmin 11y agoThere was a time when Douglas aircraft were king (DC-series), prior to merger with McDonnell in the late 60s, then Boeing more recently.
- dingaling 11y agoOnly really Dassault left to fill that sequence and they don't compete directly in that market any more ( though their Mercure fuselage lives on in the A320 series. Marcel Bloch wanted something wider than the 737 for marketing purposes ). The "D"s appear to be cursed; de Havilland Canada, Dornier and ( McDonnell )-Douglas have all disappeared since 2000.
- iSnow 11y agoToo bad Douglas was swallowed.
- ant6n 11y agoDumbardier
- goatforce5 11y agoBombardier is currently being bailed out by the Quebec government to the tune of $1bn, so that's another (almost) D company that's not doing so great: http://business.financialpost.com/investing/trading-desk/bombardier-inc-could-need-a-second-bailout-within-12-18-months-scotiabank http://business.financialpost.com/investing/trading-desk/bom...
- kpilzen 11y agoFokker is pretty much dead too.
- SixSigma 11y agoDASA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Aerospace_AG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Aerospace_AG