Boeing 747-Advance on the way!!!

[olympus593]

House X couldn't agree more.

 

[JPB]

History repeats itself. Looks a lot like the 733 versus the a320. Boeing started 20 years behind and they are almost catching up with the NG.
I love boeing but they have never been leading the aviation technology and without a little competition, you will still have a plumber synchronizing the gens.

 

[Whale Rider]

Boeing eyes new 747 jumbo, June meeting set.

Tue Jun 14, 2005 05:27 AM ET

LE BOURGET, France (Reuters) - U.S. planemaker Boeing Co. will hold a board
meeting this month to consider the launch of a stretched version of its 747 jumbo jet, a plan which the head of Boeing Italy said on Tuesday looked set to go forward.


The plan comes as rival Airbus prepares to deliver its mammoth 555-seat A380.

"Boeing will launch a new version of the 747 to counter the A380. Boeing has decided on the relaunch, with a larger version, of this glorious airplane which is 30 years old," Rinaldo Petrignani, head of Boeing Italy and vice president of Boeing International, told Italian reporters at the Paris Air Show. Another senior executive at Boeing confirmed that a board meeting this month would consider the idea of launching the new model, called the 747 Advanced

 

[Whale Rider]

Boeing nears derivative decisions
US manufacturer close to launching 747 Advanced and is set to save 747-400 freighter

Boeing is closing on launch decisions on two new airliner derivatives within the next few months amid mounting signs that sufficient launch customers are now lined up for both the 747 Advanced and long-awaited 737-900X.

“We have a team working on [747] Advanced and they are hugging our customers to sell them the business case,” says Boeing chairman Lew Platt. “The team is really enthused. The reception [in the market] has been very good. The business case is not as tough as the 787 or [Airbus] A380. I fully expect [a decision] in the next few months and maybe as early as the end of this month.”

Boeing vice-president sales Scott Carson adds that customer interest is also shifting in favour of the passenger variant, rather than the freighter as previously seen. “Much of the early interest was in the freighter, but now the majority of the interest is among airlines,” he says. The potential 747 Advanced customers include some airlines that have already ordered the A380 as well as some that want to “move up in scale without taking on the risk of the A380”, he adds.

In addition to growing signs of launch customers for the Advanced, Boeing is seeing equally important indications of renewed interest in the current 747-400, particularly the freighter. As a result the company says it will not call a halt to the programme in the near term as previously threatened.

Boeing Commercial Airplanes president Alan Mulally says: “We thought we might announce the conclusion of production at the end of this year and that’s not going to be the case because the demand for the 747-400 is increasing. We don’t anticipate any announcement this year on stopping the 747 and that gives us another option because it gives us time to bridge to the 747 Advanced,” says Mulally, who adds that entry into service would be either late 2008 or early 2009

 

[xrated]

Looks like Boeing is going to be a day late and a dollar short on this one. Once again they will be playing catch up. If they spent more time building airplanes in the U.S., and less time building airplane plants outside of the U.S. they may even come close to Airbus sales.

I'm guessing Airbus will have their plant up in Mobile, AL and have an A-330 tanker to show the government before the smoke clears from the corupt deals Boeing made with It's tanker plan.

 

[Whale Rider]

heheheheeeeeeeeee!!!...............

 

[Guitar Guy]

It'll be interesting to see if Boeing finally launches it this time. The stretched 747 idea has been floating around Boeing since before I left them in 1995. Every few years, that project would gain some traction but then slide off to the backburner. I wonder if the first flight of the A380 will cause Boeing to actually offer it for sale and then start cutting metal.

 

[xanderman]

Wow!

Hey Whale Rider, Is it true that every component will be made right here in the good 'ole USA? Ya know 'cause it's American right?