Will Airbus delay mean much? (A380's postponement might aid Boeing, might not)

Associated Press via the Corvallis Gazette-Times ^ | Tuesday, June 7, 2005 | ELIZABETH M. GILLESPIE

[Central Scrutiniser]

The 9 is nice and lots of them flying still. I love the Constellation, never got to fly in it, but toured one once, a thing of beauty.

The L1011 was well built, TWA used to have quite a few, and Delta just retired theirs in the last year, there is a startup airline in Thailand that is flying them. My only beef with the L1011 was the hydraulic smell before takeoff, after that, no problem.

The DC-10 is good, did a few flights on Continental and Hawaiian, never had any trouble, the MD11 had some problems, lots of them are now flying cargo.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Wasn't the Lockheed Constellation that Howard Hughes bought a huge bulk of for TWA ?

[Central Scrutiniser]

Yep, TWA got first cut at them, I have a pic of one on my page, its the long range Super G version with the tip tanks, beautiful.

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

Boeing gets its share of government cheese, don't be naive.

Of course they do, but that's not the point. AB is going to claim, if they haven't already, that Boeing's dealings with NASA and the like have given B technology benefits that they have flowed down to commercial aircraft to the detriment of Airbus and causing them to lose sales. Well, given AB's cocky attitude the last few years and the fact they overtaken B in both orders and deliveries for 2 years running, it won't take much more than a first year law student to slice and dice THAT argument. We'll see how it turns out.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

I saw the HISTORY CHANNLE show on Howard Hughes , and I was amazed in how much he contributed in aviation.
Not only did he help design, build, fiance, manage his airplane company, he also was the test pilot for some of his planes.
With politics aside, who are probity the top 5 or 10 most inflewanical people in aviation ?
1# The Wright Brothers of course.
But, just imagine ? if the Wright Brothers ( they had the airframe design correct ) had joined up with Samuel Langley ( Samuel Langley had the engine ( even though, it was to heavy ) they could have worked together and could have come up with a better plane sooner, and more advanced ).
2# Samuel Langley. if his airframe and engine was not to heavy, he could have beat the Wright Brothers in the first powered flight , Glen Curtiss restored( made 90 some modifications to the Arodrome to make it airworthy, and it flew in 1914
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/q0004.shtml.
I don't know if anyone at the time realized it or not, but, the boat and platform that Samuel Langley had to launch his Arodrome looks like the forerunner of the aircraft carries.
3# Glen Curtiss " The father of Navel Aviation "
Glen Curtiss made many inovations in aviation, and set many records.
4# Howard Hughes. innovator, builder, test pilot, visionary.
Well,,, that is a few that I can think of at the moment.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Sorry about the spelling mistakes......