Entirely new jetliners get developed only about once a decade, costing billions of dollars.
Zodiac Aerospace tests plumbing designs before plane builders install them on commercial jetliners.
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Demand for commercial jetliners tends to closely follow global economic patterns, exaggerating the ups and downs of the business cycle.
Some private customers wanted the comforts afforded to those heads of state who had their own large jetliners at their disposal.
Airbus sold 31 of its narrowbody A320 family of jetliners as VIP aircraft last year, up from 20 the year before.
Piloted cars are different from the auto-pilot systems already found in luxury cars and jetliners that allow for efficient parking and landing.
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Defense was a stronger contributor to sales during the sub-prime crisis, when demand for jetliners weakened while military demand was at a peak.
Much of the industry, in fact, has tried to imitate Southwest, down to its 737 jetliners, but can't seem to get it right.
He will also attend remembrances at the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where the last of four jetliners crashed on a bright September day.
Over the following half-century, Boeing dominated jetliners thanks to its "willingness to invest whatever it took to be the technological leader, " Mr. Sutter recalled.
ANA, which endured three and a half years of delays before taking delivery of its first 787 in September 2011, has ordered 66 of the jetliners.
Boeing announced on Thursday orders for five new 737 jetliners.
Then Boeing, which had for decades relied on Rockwell to build its avionics, picked Honeywell to outfit its new wide-body 777 and 737 jetliners with integrated systems on LCDs.
Airbus has been a spectacular success, but the nexus between government financial support and the displacement of Boeing jetliners in many markets has reinforced U.S. doubts about the company.
John Coughlin and Officer Vincent Danz were all part of the NYPD Emergency Service Unit and were among the first to enter the buildings after they were hit by hijacked jetliners.
El Salvador wants to rid itself of its guerilla war reputation and glean a new image: fruit-filled jungles, coffee plantations, Pacific beaches and the multimillion dollar business of repairing Boeing-made jetliners.
For remote airports such as Goose Bay and Gander, which have been largely bypassed in recent years by jetliners' longer range capabilities, fueling stops can bring in tens of thousands of dollars in landing fees and other revenue a month.
On a recent day, four jetliners -- two Boeing 737s, an Airbus A320 and a Boeing widebody 767 -- were parked in the massive Gore hangar, their tail markings and aircraft registration numbers shrouded under plastic to protect the identities of their owners.
With few new military programs left to pursue and its jetliners being squeezed out of the commercial-transport market by Airbus and Boeing, McDonnell Douglas had run out of options: in 1997 it merged with Boeing and disappeared from the ranks of Pentagon contractors.
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It will fit a large variety of aircraft, from light corporate jets to giant jetliners, so the contraption could appeal to everyone from Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people) Chief Executive Larry Ellison , a jet aficionado, to Donald J.
Once Boeing's boss, Phil Condit, and his then number two, Harry Stonecipher (who had been McDonnell's last boss), had bedded down the mergers, they realised they were sitting on a collection of assets that could be used to sprout all sorts of businesses aside from jetliners, rockets and satellites.
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