Airbus A321NeoLR

[Whydoitry]

-900 are getting the scimitars as well, just land flat and in a crab, good times.

 

[SpauldingSmails]

If Boeing can work out a cheapened short body b787, i.e. exchange cost for a shortened range/lower MGTOW/cheaper engines there maybe a new 757 in there somehow.

 

[FurloughedAgain]

I heard the Max is getting an 8" longer nose gear. Wonder if they have considered lengthening all three

 

[BILL LUMBERG]

Cool, I always wanted to cross the Atlantic in the high 20s.

FI Post of the Year! Too true!

This industry just steps away from supersonic travel, then stretches and adds and toys with old 1960s designs just to bring us back into the days of the Connie flying in the 20s going around buildups all night.

When will these manufacturers go back to being plane builders instead of an arm of the military industrial complex where project risk is not measured by profitability.

 

[StopNTSing]

No special training required at my carrier, just training by bulletin on the differences! The -900ER is my favorite to fly now, the -800 was before. It's a nice heavy, stable platform. I'm not crazy about those goofy Scimitar winglets. Gusty crosswind landing are a little hair-raising with those thing's hanging below your wing tips!!

To each his own, I guess, but to me the -700 is a pilot's airplane whereas the -800 and up are accountant's airplanes; IOW revenue potential increased at the direct expense of performance. For example: ever-present tail-strike potential; barely ever can break into FL4xx; severely compromised performance out of shorter runways (which we have a lot of); just to name a few. In fact the only thing I've come to really prefer about our -800s is the whiz-bang Wx radar. Maybe I'd like them more if we actually received a higher rate of pay to fly them, but that's a whole 'nother story....

 

[jonjuan]

FI Post of the Year! Too true!

This industry just steps away from supersonic travel, then stretches and adds and toys with old 1960s designs just to bring us back into the days of the Connie flying in the 20s going around buildups all night.

When will these manufacturers go back to being plane builders instead of an arm of the military industrial complex where project risk is not measured by profitability.

No bucks, no buck Rogers. Why should they build anything worth a flip if people like RA would rather buy used junk?

 

[lowtimedriver]

I heard the Max is getting an 8" longer nose gear. Wonder if they have considered lengthening all three

You are asking too much from Boeing.:nuts:

 

[dicko]

Boeing just released a range on the 737-800 Max of NYC-London.

That's nice ...... I wonder how they plan on getting it back from London to New York ? Through Reykjavik perhaps ? I'll take an Airbus any day over that noisy, uncomfortable, union busting POS.

Ahhhh. I feel much better now.

 

[n757st]

The new a321s with the a5 engine and the sharklets are actually pretty decent. Had a full one right up to 350 not to long ago and within 2 hours at 370. The sharklets really take it up a notch from the early builds... You aren't wallowing at 290. With this new model, adding another 4k of thrust will help this thing climb better at least.

 

[Groucho]

The new a321s with the a5 engine and the sharklets are actually pretty decent. Had a full one right up to 350 not to long ago and within 2 hours at 370. The sharklets really take it up a notch from the early builds... You aren't wallowing at 290. With this new model, adding another 4k of thrust will help this thing climb better at least.

OK then.... How about 10K more per side and another 6 foot of wing each side. Then double bogie landing gear and 8 tires instead of 4. Then it will be a real long range airplane. The new one's are better than the old but they are still B75 "wanna-be's".

 

[BentOver]

I'm suprised Airbus and Boeing aren 't recruiting every pilot on here to be their lead engineers and designers.....

I mean Boeing and Airbus obviously haven't figured out anything about airplanes with the engineers they have.....

 

[BeachBummer]

Duh! Pilots know everything. Everyone else is stoopid��