Originally Posted by
FE Hoppy
787 does all of this.
Nothing Boeing couldn't do on a smaller airframe.
True.
But we're talking about what the CSeries competes with today, not 5 years and 8-10 billion dollars down the line.
Originally Posted by
FE Hoppy
The tech belongs to the engine manufacturer not the airframer. This doesn't answer my question.
You don't think engine technology and economics matters as much to the market as the airframes that they hang off ?