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...most passengers, the superjet era will provide a slightly smoother ride and perhaps longer baggage waits, at least until airline unloaders become accustomed to handling the suitcases of hundreds of people at once. The most visible contrast to standard jet-age travel, of course, will be space-the experience of sitting in a cruise-ship-sized cabin, with nearly 300 other passengers and 14 stewardesses. Until the airlines are able to snap out of their current economic doldrums and begin filling their new planes, much of that extra space will be used to pamper the passenger, with roomy lounge...
...Step Ahead. There will also be innovations in aeronautics and economics. The superjets, including the 747, are equipped with radical new landing systems that will allow virtually fail-safe touchdowns in any weather. The captain of a DC-10 can literally keep one step ahead of himself during landing procedures by referring to a Honeywell computer on board that shows exactly what the aircraft will do next. Superjet engines, while three times more powerful than those of standard jets, are quieter, more pollution-free and more efficient. Meals served aboard the DC-10, some 747s and Lockheed's forthcoming...
Lockheed's supporters made an impassioned case. The company, they con- tended, had been victimized by bad luck. It had poured $900 million into developing a big new superjet, the 250-passenger TriStar. But its engine supplier, Britain's Rolls-Royce, had encountered such rough weather with the contract that it had to be taken over by government-appointed receivers. Lockheed had been financially weakened by problems with military cost overruns and, after Rolls-Royce went under, Lockheed's bankers refused to grant it more credit without a federal loan guarantee...
AVIATION A U.S. Superjet for Japan? U.S. aircraft makers have been about as hopeful of selling their latest sky designs as dress manufacturers have been about getting rid of their midi stockpiles. Boeing's bid to usher the nation into the supersonic age, after all, was soundly rebuffed by the Senate, and the fate of Lockheed's L-1011 jet still hangs precariously in the Congress. Yet last week ailing Boeing, which has laid off more than 90,000 workers in the past three years, became the heavy favorite to develop a new line of jumbo aircraft...
...Final terms have yet to be worked out, but it is likely that Boeing will sell or lease to the Japanese basic design-and-production technology either for a short-range version of its famed jumbo jet, with the working name of 747-SR, or for a completely new superjet airbus that could carry up to 300 passengers but operate out of relatively short runways. Presumably, the Japanese would put up a production line with Boeing's help, and some of the plane parts would be built in the U.S. Kimura said that the Japanese, who have huge dollar...