It’s a shame that the partnership with Boeing fell through as I think like with the A220 and Airbus, the EJet2 would have given Boeing a well-needed shot of innovation. So, points there as well.Īs for Embraer, they are still nipping around the market and I’ve heard good things about their E-Jet 2 program. I could also argue that the A350 is a new design, and a very good one at that, but it’s actually a spiritual clean sheet successor to the Airbus A340. Not to sound like a broken record at this point, but I have a video all about that here. It can easily crush the A320 series, especially the A318 and A319. Again, I’ve gone into way too much detail in another video about this, that you can check out here.Īirbus does have the Airbus A220 program that I consider a true next generation aircraft. Airbus also proposed multiple neo versions of the A380 program, but that never got off the ground due to low customer demand. This has been successful enough for Airbus that they rolled out the neo program to the A330 series, and there are rumors that it will also offer an A350 neo in the next few years. That’s all there is, the same airframe design, but new engines and some bells and whistles like large cabin storage and LED lights.

They have the A320 which has a neo version (new engine option). You can check out my latest video on the 737 MAX here where I go into more detail.Īirbus is guilty of this as well. Why haven’t Boeing used the learnings from the 787 to create a new clean sheet design? Sure, the Boeing 737 MAX has features from the 787, but we all know what happened there. The 787 was a totally clean sheet design and really brought new technology forward. Any calls for new aircraft from Boeing are simply X versions of the 757 and 767 in the form of a 797. Then there is the 777 which is nearing its own third generation with the 777X. The 707 was their first, followed by the 737 and 747, both of which are now up to four generations. Let me explain – let’s start with Boeing.īoeing hasn’t really made a new design, apart from the Boeing 787, in many years. Now, in the introduction, I made some pretty big claims that aircraft producers like Airbus, Boeing, Embraer and Bombardier, haven’t really innovated in well over forty years.

So, today’s content is more of an open letter to the aviation industry, I’m going to ask where the promised planes are the ones that can fly faster than sound, that take off into space, and bring the world of tomorrow to today. Boeing and Airbus are both guilty of claiming that their planes are the next game-changer in aviation and that the future is just around the corner.īut these planes are just reiteration of a theme, and they are simply the same old 1960s to 1980s designs with a slightly better engine and tacked on client-facing features like LED lights and fancy windows that dim. The words ‘next generation’ frustrate me. Airplanes Where is the True Next Generation Plane?

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