Aviation Predictions:2005 - The Boyd Group

Aviation Predictions:2005 - The Boyd Group: "In that context, let's do some righteous forecasting. Boeing is building the 7E7 - a replacement for existing 757/767/A-300 airliners, offering 15% - 20% better economics. Airbus is building the A-380 WhaleJet - a 550-seat replacement for the 747. Let's be blunt. The 7E7 is based on hard futurist fleet projections. The A-380 is a political airplane - the Europeans want a monument to show off to the world, one that shows their industrial prowess is better than that of the US.
And that perfectly describes the Concorde program of the 1960s. The WhaleJet may be no different."