Jon Ostrower

Clean-Sheet - Boeing´s all-new jet: Configuration and Materials

Until now, few answers about Boeing's next aircraft have been available and while the majority of its attributes have yet to be determined - including its launch - the all-new jet will be one aircraft, not two, and whose configuration will match the familiar tube and wing that defines commercial air transport today.


In recent months, Boeing has been quietly polling the worlds most influential airlines, offering them a veritable "grab-bag" of technologies, say industry officials, with the goal of identifying their future needs for an all new jet that is intended to first see revenue service in 2019 or 2020.

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