Aircraft
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If Boeing Had Taken a Different Path
I received a note from a reader, Joel, asking for my thoughts on an article entitled The Coming Boeing Bailout? in Big…
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3 Links I Love: Shrinking A350 Seats, Zunum Death Watch, Seattle’s N Gates
This week’s featured link: Airbus changes tack on seat comfort, posits ‘sub-economy’ on A350 – Runway Girl NetworkOh Airbus. The company loves…
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3 Links I Love: More MAX Delays, Death of the Widebody, A Massive Regional Gap
This week’s featured link: FAA and Boeing initially disagreed on severity of “catastrophic” 737 MAX software glitch – The Air CurrentBest I…
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The A321XLR Will Enable the 757 to Retire, But It is More Than Just a Replacement
Boeing remains so bogged down with both the 737 MAX grounding and engine issues plaguing other fleets that it hasn’t been able…
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3 Links I Love: IAG Orders (and Renames) the MAX, Giving Clarity to MH370, Major Merger Restrictions
This week’s featured link: IAG signs letter of intent for 200 Boeing 737-8 and 737-10 – IAG NewsroomThere is so much to…
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Mitsubishi Introduces the Efficient But Range-Limited SpaceJet M100 for the US Market
The Paris Air Show opens next week, and that’s always a big venue for aircraft-related announcements. Mitsubishi, however, has decided to jump…
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3 Links I Love: Boeing’s Fall Continues, A Big JetBlue Loss, Hawaiian Fights LAX
This week’s featured link: Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions Into 737 Max, Blind to a Late Design Change – The New York TimesWhat…
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3 Links I Love: Mitsubishi Targets the US, A Successful A380, Iceland’s Wow Pain
This week’s featured link: Mitsubishi to turn MRJ into cheaper, smaller ‘Space Jet’ – Nikkei Asian ReviewIt is going to be really…
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The Cranky Flier Interview: Capt Korry Franke on Flying the 737
You might recognize the name Korry Franke from this blog. He’s the Captain for United who wrote the book 3 Feet to…
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After Reading the Preliminary Report, A Change of Heart on the 737 MAX Grounding
After Ethiopian 302 crashed on takeoff from Addis Ababa, I thought the decision to ground the airplane was hasty. But now after…
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Did an Airbus A330 Have the Same Problem as the 737 MAX? (Ask Cranky)
It’s time for another edition of Ask Cranky and today, it provides a good excuse to write more about Boeing’s 737 MAX…
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Whether the MAX Should Have Been Grounded or Not, Boeing Finds Itself in Hot Water
In my post last Thursday, I laid out why I thought the 737 MAX shouldn’t have been grounded with the information we…