of course the UK has there rememberance day, the country (should be) falling silent at 11am on the 11/11 of each year.

I do not know if the americans have this event, its odd considering their views/actions on war cemetaries.

what you said in your previous post is that passenger numbers will soon exhaust airport capacity, you didnt say just at major hubs…..whilst airport capacity is approached at major airports capacity will also be growing at smaller airports.

so, we are reaching capacity and nobody wants anyone to extend or build new airports…..well that looks like the downfall of commercial aviation to me.

The a300 is actually only 3 yrs younger (based on first flight years) than the 747 (which actually I find quite amazing) A FBW system will extend certification times and costs but has many aerodynamic benefits. A new wing is just expensive in time and money.

and by the way, whilst the a330/340 series may look somthing like the a300 they are certainly NOT the same technical vintage in terms of design and materials, making your argument null and void greekdude.

from what you just said seahawk. there are only really two things that are going to happen at airports with rising passenger figures….1.new airports everywhere 2.air travel collapse due to not being able to supply demand.

Airbus already have ideas on their A320 replacement, time for boeing to step up to the line for another catfight or two.

Boeing will have to sweet-talk the FAA first……..I remember reading in Flight I think it was that the FAA categorically refused to sign off any further expansions of the 747 airframe after the 744. I think they are right to do this as the design is soo old, but I also think they are wrong to do this because the designs needed to get this through statically are basically ALL new (well they’d need to be, the centre box would just be one solid mass of metal-on-metal plates otherwise!)

As someone has previously said…you didnt expect Boeing to take the A380 lieing down did you?……honestly??

JAL and ANA are interested in some are they?? I wonder what workshare Japan will get off of THIS project??? considering that Japan is making the fully equipped wing for the 787………I am sure there would be ‘benefits’ to the country………..

And lets not talk about loans………Airbus/EADS is as bad as Boeing when it comes to loans or startup grants or WHATEVER.

Whats the point in re-working bleedless engines so that the archaic airframes they get fitted to can work? it just sounds like hassle which of course equals cost.

looks like lots of wing work with those new winglets too. (did you know that the weight of the A380F is only 7% greater than that of the Pax version but the wings need to be looked at again completely, from start to finish, the freighter version may need a whole new wing compared to that of the pax, the plan being that eventually the pax will receive the freighter wing so that the protected AUW of 620 tons can be reached for both pax and freighter. Initially AUW’s will be different and lower than this figure).

But then boeing engineers believe greatly in their black boxes, which can speed up design, and also hide errors (btw black boxes provide many opportunities for errors to be made by the engineer……as my colleagues have been proving to me this week 🙁 )

jag adour engines?

very nice!