He singled airplane manufacturer Sukhoi Company, saying Russian made aircraft should be competitive with their foreign rivals in terms of engine noise, fuel economy and flight distance.
Long touted as a fuel-efficient industry game-changer, Boeing's Dreamliner shattered the flight distance record for an aircraft of its size, with a 19, 835km flight from Seattle to Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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The birds' energy budgets operate on thin margins of food intake against exhaustive expenditure in long-distance flight.
Each time you jump while snowboarding or skying, the accelerometer data from the goggles is sent to the handset which posts a graphic to Facebook showing the distance, height and duration of your flight.
The flight from Abu Dhabi to London is eight hours long, crossing a distance of about 3, 500 miles (5, 600 km), as the crow flies.
With enough tweaking, engineers assured me, they eventually could come up with reduced-distance balls that would work, even though the feel and flight characteristics might take some getting used to.
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This final flight is the vessel's 25th overall, having already clocked a cumulative distance in space of 166 million km - an expanse just greater than that which divides the Earth and the Sun.
Event rights holders and convention planners want to hold their events and conventions in top flight facilities that are located conveniently in relation to major airports, hotels, and within reasonable distance of entertainment amenities.
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While distance seems an obstacle in the selection process, for many students on the east coast, the flight time to the United Kingdom is around the same as if they had chosen a school on the west coast.
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In press conferences and interviews before the Apollo 11 flight, Armstrong spoke mostly in clipped, dry sentences, almost as if he were transmitting radio messages from a distance while still on Earth.
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