Qantas and Cathay expected to ink deals

fleabyte · Post by **fleabyte** » 03 Jan 2006, 23:28

Well,

I have to admit I am ignorant here, but always thought they and CASA were brought in later, but in the late 60's, Airbus was a Franco-German show against the yanks commercial aviation industry.

I beleive by content the largest supplier to the A380 is the USA, so all this nationalism is kind of a sideshow in the age of globalization.

regi · Post by **regi** » 04 Jan 2006, 11:22

Without competition we would still be flown around in Connies and B707's.

fleabyte · Post by **fleabyte** » 04 Jan 2006, 16:10

can you imagine, we are still flying on 707-1600 or something

regi · Post by **regi** » 04 Jan 2006, 18:08

yep, a B707-CFM

GE90 · Post by **GE90** » 05 Jan 2006, 03:18

For engine buffs the version of the CFM for the 707 was the never-produced CFM56-1. Later it was enlarged and became the very successful CFM56-2 for the KC135/E6 et al.

boeing797 · Post by **boeing797** » 05 Jan 2006, 03:36

fleabyte wrote:can you imagine, we are still flying on 707-1600 or something

No, but we would be flying Concord

fleabyte · Post by **fleabyte** » 05 Jan 2006, 23:08

if we could afford a ticket

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Qantas and Cathay expected to ink deals

why not BAE

yep

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Re: yep

if we could afford a ticket