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Old 29th Apr 2020, 23:29
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Originally Posted by tdracer
Someone is playing with words - the 757 is 15 years out of production, and the only tooling that still exists would be some of the 737 fuselage tooling. So a "757-Plus" would be a clean sheet design aside from perhaps having a common fuselage diameter with the original 757 (which, IMHO, would be a mistake - that long, narrow fuselage was the worse feature of the 757).
Is any airline buying any new aircraft from any manufacturer? Enough $ to support any new development?
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