Originally Posted by
drewguy
Why is it a blemish, other than for Boeing's business, which presumably spent a lot on developing the variant that it won't recoup?
I don't think the 8I is a blemish as far as the passengers are concerned. Still a great plane...from our perspective, I'm sure it's the best 747 ever built. It'll have the modern interior design, etc. I don't follow the stock enough to know what investors think about it.
Originally Posted by
Sant
Several years ago at LHR, I had disembarked and boarded BA 747s parked far from the T5 terminal.
Did you look up at it and marvel at its awesomeness? @:-) I also wonder what it must be like to have been on that original 747 design team...if you were a 30-year-old aero engineer in the late 60's, you're 75 now. I wonder if those guys ever take a flight today, look up at the plane, and think "Yeah, we did that, and it changed the world.
" I'm sure every element of the plane has been reengineered and modernized multiple times, but it's still the same platform those guys put together eons ago.