Airbus and Boeing do not have much to worry about yet, but China's aviation industry is developing rapidly and the goal of building a wide-bodied airliner is not out of the question.
Boeing will do the same in a couple of years when it moves senior defense executives into an office complex in Arlington, Virginia, near the Pentagon.
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Keith Hayward, head of research at the Royal Aeronautical Society, said that if the issue is no longer about replacing a faulty battery, it raised the prospect of Boeing having to do a major re-design.
So, in order to do this Boeing loads up a plane with bags of potatoes.
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But with the 787, Boeing let the suppliers do the design and manufacturing.
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As for the company's senior management, Mr Stonecipher points out that the top dozen or so executives in the enlarged Boeing group emerged from, but do not specifically represent, the three companies that came together three years ago to form the Boeing defence and aerospace company.
Among many who once built big passenger planes, only Boeing and Airbus Industrie still do.
To do this, Boeing will have to be 50% more efficient than it was with the 777.
Ford's new chief executive, Alan Mulally , who joined the automaker last week after 37 years at Boeing, had little to do with planning today's announcement, but he said the company is on the right track.
In that way, Boeing was able to make sure that the pieces that other companies made would fit together well because Boeing engineers understood what each part would do and how they would interact when the plane was flying.
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Boeing retorted that the deals had nothing to do with the merger, so the commission had no business questioning them.
But the carrier, which has a much smaller European route map than United, has some flexibility to switch to Boeing 767 jets, and a spokesman said it tries to do so in the winter.
Boeing has insisted that Mr Condit's resignation has nothing to do with this scandal or any other ethical lapse.
For example, The Seattle Times reported on February 17 that Boeing had a plan to fix the battery that was intended to do a better job of getting smoke and flames outside the aircraft after the battery ignites.
So I don't think it has -- I think it has to do with the revitalization of the American manufacturing sector most of all, and Boeing is obviously a good story in that regard.
U.S.-based Boeing denies it has been victimized by its own government, denying its move has anything to do with political pressure and instead blames the current economic climate.
Ford's new chief executive, Alan Mulally , who joined the automaker last week after 37 years at Boeing (nyse: BA - news - people ), had little to do with planning today's announcement, but he said the company is on the right track.
Some countries do allow cell phone use on board planes with specially designed cell phone receivers, devices which Boeing sells and installs.
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