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Originally posted by Harlequin
Boeing have also announced its delayed - and they are only selling 28 of the 747-8I version anyway to 1 customer , who privately are a bit jittery for being the only operator of the type , given the success of the A380.
Originally posted by deltaboy
Its decades old design and yet waynos has posted pics of a concept of the design that has a double deck for the 747.
Boeing announced the 747-500X and -600X at the 1996 Farnborough Airshow.[77] The proposed models would have combined the 747's fuselage with a new 251 ft (77 m) span wing derived from the 777. Other changes included adding more powerful engines and increasing the number of tires from two to four on the nose landing gear and from 16 to 20 on the main landing gear.[159]
The 747-500X concept featured an 18 ft (5.5 m) stretch to 250 ft (76.2 m) long, and the aircraft was to carry 462 passengers over a range up to 8,700 nautical miles (10,000 mi, 16,100 km), with a gross weight of over 1.0 Mlb (450 Mg).[159] The 747-600X concept featured a greater stretch to 279 ft (85 m) with seating for 548 passengers, a range of up to 7,700 nmi (8,900 mi, 14,300 km), and a gross weight of 1.2 Mlb (540 Mg).[159] A third study concept, the 747-700X, would have combined the wing of the 747-600X with a widened fuselage, allowing it to carry 650 passengers over the same range as a 747-400.[77] The cost of the changes from previous 747 models, in particular the new wing for the 747-500X and -600X, was estimated to be more than $5 billion.[77] Boeing was not able to attract enough interest to launch the aircraft.[78]
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Originally posted by abecedarian
In retrospect though, I wonder... what if there were a dual-decked airliner in use today in the USA? Would it reduce flight traffic and the delays at airports? Would it be cost-effective, i.e.: would the increase in fuel consumption due to the weight be more than enough to offset the reduction in flights between airports due to fewer planes flying?
And off the cuff- thank someone that MD did not push the DC-10 in the direction the drawing above indicated, what with the engine mounts failing and such.