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Is this the New Midsize Airplane, the "797", again? [1] That's been on and off for over a decade. Should have been shipping by now. The COMAC C919 is finally s
by Animats 1y ago
Is this the New Midsize Airplane, the "797", again? [1] That's been on and off for over a decade. Should have been shipping by now.
The COMAC C919 is finally shipping, although it's not a great aircraft and China still imports the engines. COMAC will probably do better in the next round.
Will Embraeier build something in that size range? They could. They already build small midsize aircraft.[3]
This looks like Boeing missing the market.
And it's all because the Southwest CEO wanted to have only one kind of airplane. That's the cause of the 737 MAX.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_New_Midsize_Airplane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_New_Midsize_Airplane
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac_C919 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac_C919
[3] https://www.embraer.com/e-jets-e2/e195e2/en/ https://www.embraer.com/e-jets-e2/e195e2/en/
- everybodyknows 1y ago> And it's all because the Southwest CEO wanted to have only one kind of airplane. That's the cause of the 737 MAX. Interesting how in the eyes of Joe Public, Southwest had nothing to do with it. Wonder if the Southwest board figures their cynical calculation worked out well enough to try again?
- contrarian1234 1y agoi dont know anything about how these companies are run, but couldnt it simply be their engineers were busy working on other projects? i assume there is a limited talent pool of the required people