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Airbus Is Coming for Boeing’s 737
The proposed A220-500 narrowbody jet and the larger A321 could put the US aircraft giant—which won’t have a new plane this decade—in a bind.
10 Dec 2022, 03:17 PM IST i

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(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Designing a new commercial aircraft requires huge financial outlays and years of engineering wizardry, and success isn’t assured, as the short-lived Airbus A380 jumbo can attest. Such missteps—the double-decker jet never recouped its $20 billion in development costs before being dropped in 2019—explain why the aerospace industry’s preferred route these days is to tweak, stretch and reconfigure existing mod...

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