Crack mate, keep smoking it. You wouldn't have 777s if it wasn't for Airbus competition. You'd still be plying round in the 100 series of Boeing everything while Boeing fed you the "EFIS is bad - you loose your scan" bullsh*t. Or the "two engines in a wide body is too inherently unsafe for the public to want to fly on it" (Boeings preA300 drivel)
Best one was "Airbus will be gone by '75, they'll be lucky to get 5% of the market"
And as for the limp wrist, have you seen the cockpit mockups of the 7E7 with the side stick.
Didn't think so.
halas if you seriously think in technology terms the classic 747 was even remotely near the L 1011 you have been borrowing something from crack. It had an autoland system and a level of redundancy that is still as good as better than anything out there.
Lockheed in Japan was decades ago. Have a look at Boeing NOW with the tanker scandal. It'll be broken up, military from commercial, by the end of next year. Then we'll see who's been surviving on subsidies and creative accounting.
I agree that Boeing will probably put pressure on the FAA to go well over 200 min with ETOPS (they don't have a 4 eng aircraft to compete) but with 3 ETOPS Eng failures on the 777 with US carriers within a month I think it could get ugly.
The next two years will be interesting. What about the new 172 now with inertia reel seatbelts and Fuel injection as the big upgrades from '65. State of the art or what. Those Americans and their technology.