Boeings greatest quality

Lately there has been a lot of talk about Boeing and it's resurgence in the commercial aircraft market with its dynamic duo, the 777 and the 787.

Both of these projects came from 'failures', projects that never saw the light but that instead were the base for resounding successes. Looking at that Boeing has done that more than once.

1960's, they lost the Air Force transport to Lockheed but they learned how to build VLA's and the 747 was born.

In the 1980's fuel prices brought a new project the 7J7 an ultra efficient plane that used a great amount of composites. Oil prices plummeted but the research gave birth to the most efficient plane flying today: the 777

Late 90's and Boeing displays the Sonic Cruiser a plane with a radical new design and faster speeds. 9/11 and the Airline crisis came along together with high oil prices. Boeing decided to instead of offering 20% more speed it offered 20 more efficiency, and the 787 came.

But how to build a composite plane in a mass scale, the X-32 may have lost, but the radical assembly system that was develop for it was implemented and a new CHRP chain covering 3 continents was born.

Boeing has learned from every failures and for every laugh at them for what some see as doomed projects and they all have come to become milestones in aviation. Is this what ultimate separates them from Airbus?

Is proving that they can re-bounce from failure what is going to ultimately prove if airbus is destined to survive?

Carcharadon,

Nice to see someone on here who can honestly tell their boss it is for work.

I am surprised to see Boing (spelling error intentional) feeling the need to stroke the ego in here but hey whatever works for ya.

Cheers

S396

P.S. I see you have forgotten to mention the Boing failures that were not luckily turned around many years (and heads rolling) later.

Originally posted by carcharodon
1960's, they lost the Air Force transport to Lockheed but they learned how to build VLA's and the 747 was born.

For the Record the 747 has been in Air Force sevice for a number of years now. The USAF flies two versions of the 747 airframe:

E-4 National Airborne Operations Center



Air Force One

The first one serves as an airborne command post, and the second is the President's plane.

Tim