{"id":191699,"date":"2009-07-04T06:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/04\/boeings-looks-at-re-winging-777\/"},"modified":"2009-07-04T06:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-04T11:07:00","slug":"boeings-looks-at-re-winging-777","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/04\/boeings-looks-at-re-winging-777\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing\u2019s Looks at Re- Winging 777"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Boeing is concerned about the threat that the Airbus A350 might be in the market.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s larger than the 787, but is following Boeing&#8217;s lead on propulsion and structural technologies to lower operational costs, and so the Seattle (Chicago) based manufacturer is worried that they might be facing a repeat of the 767\/A330 fight that they had over a decade ago, which the A330 won decisively.<\/p>\n<p>So, Boeing is looking at a significant stretch to the 787, and at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-06-22&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2009\/06\/22\/AW_06_22_2009_p26-149014.xml\">re-winging the 777 with a lighter weight composite structure<\/a>. (<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">paid subscription required<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not clear if this is just some blue-sky thinking, or if Boeing is really spooked by the repeated delays, and the cancellation of orders, on its 787 Dreamliner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Boeing is concerned about the threat that the Airbus A350 might be in the market. It&#8217;s larger than the 787, but is following Boeing&#8217;s lead on propulsion and structural technologies to lower operational costs, and so the Seattle (Chicago) based manufacturer is worried that they might be facing a repeat of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1005,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-business","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}