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To: Disestablishmentarian
Almost immediately the company made the disastrous R&D decisions that allowed Air Bus to leapfrog their engine technology.

Your points are well-taken, but to be clear, Boeing does not manufacture aircraft engines. They are an airframe. The big players who manufacture engines are ...

General Electric (who I worked for for 7 years in their stealth technology group)

Pratt & Whitney - now part of RTX

Rolls Royce

CFM International- A partnership between GE and SNECMA (France)
2,105 posted on 03/12/2024 5:07:38 PM PDT by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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2,129 posted on 03/12/2024 6:43:17 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: tang-soo
Your points are well-taken, but to be clear, Boeing does not manufacture aircraft engines. They are an airframe. The big players who manufacture engines are ...

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Thank you for the clarification.

Maybe you can help me with the name of that new Air Bus technology. It was turbo-something. From what I read, Boeing (or its suppliers at Boeing's direction) abandoned the research and Air Bus continued to and made a tremendous breakthrough.

2,162 posted on 03/12/2024 8:33:36 PM PDT by Disestablishmentarian (#T-Party 2024)
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