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Category Archives: Boeing

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What I Hate Most About the Boeing 787

Matthew Klint Posted onNovember 3, 2017November 14, 2023 13 Comments
Boeing 787 Annoyance

I do love the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, generally. It is a great aircraft with a noticeable improvement in cabin air quality. But there is one thing about it that I simply cannot stand… That’s the automatic flushers on the...

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Airbus and Trump Win, Boeing and Bombardier Lose

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 17, 2017November 14, 2023 15 Comments
Airbus Bombardier Winners Losers

Bombardier will sell the majority of its C Series program to Airbus. Although talks have been ongoing for months, they took on a new urgency in light of the blistering 300% duty slapped on by U.S. regulators. The new...

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Defiant Delta CEO: We Will NOT Pay “Nonsensical” Bombardier Tariff

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 14, 2017November 14, 2023 5 Comments
Delta Rejects Bombardier Tariff

Delta CEO Ed Bastian has come out swinging, saying Delta will take delivery of its new Bombardier C Series order while also promising it will never pay the 300% tariff levied by the U.S. Government. I outlined the stakes of the...

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Live and Let’s Fly Weekend Digest: October 1, 2017

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 1, 2017November 14, 2023 2 Comments
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Greetings from 38,000 feet. I’m in the air enroute to Europe, where I’ll be spending most of the week. No new products to review on this trip…TAP and Air India didn’t have award space… Some more disturbances in the...

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Boeing Wins, Consumers Lose

Matthew Klint Posted onSeptember 27, 2017September 27, 2017 19 Comments
Boeing Bombardier Tariff

Last week I wrote about a trade spat between Boeing and Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier over alleged subsidies. The US Department of Commerce has sided with Boeing and plans to slap a whopping 220% tariff on each Bombardier C...

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Prime Minister: Canada Will NOT Buy Boeing Jets

Matthew Klint Posted onSeptember 19, 2017 20 Comments
Canada Boeing Ban

Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau has declared that Canada will not do business with Boeing, threatening to look elsewhere to supply Canada’s next generation of fighter jets. Speaking at a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May,...

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Should I Fly the Iran Air 747SP?

Matthew Klint Posted onJune 2, 2016December 5, 2016 6 Comments

I do not have many regrets in life, but three big regrets are never flying the Concorde, Boeing 707, and Lockheed L1011. Had my aviation enthusiasm begun just a couple years earlier I am certain I would have flown...

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Malaysia Airlines 747 Hijacks My A380!

Matthew Klint Posted onApril 21, 2016December 5, 2016 7 Comments

Malaysia Airlines has six three A380s that are utilized to operate two daily flights between Kuala Lumpur and London, though apparently that is logistically impossible for the troubled carrier. To wit, the carrier has brought a 747-400 out of...

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United Announces Additional 787 Routes

Matthew Klint Posted onAugust 25, 2012December 9, 2016 5 Comments

Although United Airlines, with great fanfare, announced that the Boeing 787 would operate the carrier’s new Denver-Tokyo Narita route next year, that will not be the first route we will see United’s newest fleet addition on. Today, United filled us...

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Memorial Day 2012

Matthew Klint Posted onMay 28, 2012December 9, 2016 4 Comments

Despite the irony of Boeing depending on war and carnage, and thereby the death of soldiers, to stay profitable, the aerospace firm manages to put together a nice Memorial Day ad each year. This year’s ad is compelling and...

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787 Delay Prompts United to Postpone Launch of Houston-Auckland Service

Matthew Klint Posted onDecember 7, 2010 1 Comment

Back in May, Continental announced plans to begin non-stop service between Houston and Auckland in November 2011 on one their newly-delivered 787-8 aircraft.  But if you’ve been reading the news lately, you know that Boeing has, well, run into...

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MIT Proposes Next Generation 737 – Increasing Fuel Efficiency by 70%

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 7, 2010November 14, 2023 5 Comments

Although the prototype design appears unconventional based on the way we currently envision commercial aircraft, MIT is serious: the technology exists to substantially decrease fuel consumption while not compensating performance. Take a look at their proposal, at left, for...

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56th Anniversary of Boeing 367-80, the Prototype that Became the 707

Matthew Klint Posted onJuly 17, 2010November 14, 2023 Leave a Comment

Yesterday marked the 56th Anniversary of the plane that became known as the 707 and propelled commercial aviation into the jet age. On July 15, 1954 the Boeing 367-80, nicknamed the Dash-80, made its first test flight from Renton Field...

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