Originally Posted by
vikingivesterled
Let's get back to the subject and not diverge into what you'd prefer to fly or what job you'd take first, but what plane will emerge.
There is a possibility that a new aircraft manufacturer will emerge in the electric area like Tesla appeared from nowhere and quickly overtook the established car manufacturers.
A plane manufacturer not constrrained on what has been before and bogged down for years in what current model they should develop further.
A manufacturer not constained financially of the drain of previous anc durrent failures/problems.
A plane maker whose share price and therebye potential for return on investment is not constrained by what it is now and what it was historically.
And not resticted by how long it historically, or more likely lately, took them to do inovation.
There should be plenty of potential areas available that Boeing have abandoned and is ripe for somebody to capitalise on left behind human expertice and experience mixed with some real new thinking. Sample: if Boeing won't be in Seattle maybe somebody else will.
Who knows. That plane could be an electric 757 stilt-shaped 4 aisled delta wing where triple-bogey wheels are used to land the extra weight of batteries, with a hydrogen fueled range extender only operating over water.
And the 5 year old is not the custmer, the mother is. Ultimately it's always the one with the money.
Well, there must be a reason why it is so damn hard to enter the real jetliner B737 / A32x market. Embraer and Canadair/Bombardier never got past the overgrown regional jet stage, and the Russian and Chinese offerings have problems getting taken seriously in the A22x class for all the Western avionics, propulsion and consulting they bought. So I don't really see a newcomer breaking into the real airplane bracket from nowhere.