Aerospace Notebook: 800 orders set Boeing record

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER ^ | Wednesday, November 23, 2005 | JAMES WALLACE

[Paleo Conservative]

The timing of Boeing's launch of the next generation 737 is probably dependent on the particular needs of Southwest and Ryanair. They're loyal Boeing customers

Southwest alone has bought about 10% of all the 737's ever built.

[Cvengr]

Bigger is better...??

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

Cool. That should help with the trade deficit.

Not necessarily.

The GE90 trade deficit group that powers some of the 777 family included France (yes, those cowardly, wimpy, snobbish God awful French) with a 23% stake. Look what Italy's Avio does for the GE90: inlet, accessory gearboxes, pressure turbine, distributors, 6th stage blades, 6th stage disks, et.al. and Japan's Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries gets its slice of the trade deficit pie doing the LPT rotating components, compressor airfoils, and mid fan shaft. France ((yes, those cowardly, wimpy, snobbish God awful French), take 50% (that's right, 50%) of the trade deficit pie for all CFM engines that power 737 models,. Five trade deficit nations will swipe 36% of the engines (GEnx) for the 787 Dreamliner Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries (IHI) of Japan, Avio SpA of Italy, Volvo Aero of Sweden, Techspace Aero of Belgium and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) of Japan will have approximately 36 percent share of the GEnx engine.