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Sunday, January 31, 2016

January is in The Books With Boeing Highlights (2/1/2016 Update)


As of January 31, 2016 YTD Report. Data is provided by Boeing.com and All Things 787 Blog. If additions are made in February for January activity it will be updated at this Blog posting. A reliance exists on reporting by others, as Winging It has no internal resources with Boeing and uses its public information as it occurs and adds to this blog for your convenience. 

All orders are on deck for January for the Boeing report concerning sales. Boeing's Big Year is expecting more numbers than last year approaching 1,000. What is not shown are pending sales reported in the works during January but are not yet confirmed by Boeing's website.

SWA has 33-737 not yet booked but reported, it may have been for 2015, will check on the order. It remains for 2016 tally.

A deal is in the works which remains in the Middle East, as reported during January for a 100 single aisle order when competing with Airbus and Canada Producer, Bombardier offerings.

A deal was made converting 16 787-8s to 787-9's during January not yet posted by Boeing, but is indeed a deal made with a Gulf carrier.

Current Year Deliveries Through December 2015 A Boeing Report from Boeing.com

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737747767777787Total
Total 2015 Deliveries495181698135762

Customers737747767777787Total
AerCap24---1236
Aeroflot - Russian Airlines, P---3-3
Aeromexico----11
Air Algerie2----2
Air Berlin2----2
Air Canada----66
Air China253---28
Air China Cargo---3-3
Air France---2-2
Air India----33
Air New Zealand----33
AirBridgeCargo Airlines LLC-2---2
Alaska Airlines11----11
ALC21--8-29
All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd.3--31016
American Airlines18--21333
Atlas Air, Inc.-1---1
Avia Capital Leasing12----12
Avianca----33
Aviation Capital Group1----1
Avolon - Ireland7----7
Bank of Communications Leasing3----3
Biman Bangladesh Airlines2----2
BOC Aviation Pte. Ltd.4----4
British Airways----55
Business Jet / VIP Customer(s)4--127
Cargolux Airlines-2---2
Cathay Pacific Airways---6-6
China Airlines---4-4
China Eastern28--5-33
China Southern Airlines---6-6
CIT Leasing Corporation4---26
Comair Limited2----2
COPA Airlines6----6
Delta Air Lines19----19
Donghai Airlines4----4
Dragon Aviation Leasing4----4
Dubai Aerospace Enterprise---1-1
EL AL Israel Airlines1----1
Emirates---9-9
Ethiopian Airlines3--2-5
Etihad Airways----44
EVA Air---1-1
FedEx--162-18
flydubai8----8
Garuda Indonesia---3-3
GECAS9--3-12
GOL Airlines6----6
Hainan Airlines11---213
Hebei Airlines Company, LTD1----1
Japan Airlines----66
Kenya Airways----33
KLM - Royal Dutch Airlines---1-1
Korean Air-5-5111
LATAM Airlines Group----33
Lion Air30----30
Lufthansa Cargo---1-1
Lufthansa German Airlines-4---4
Luxair1----1
Nok Air2----2
Norwegian10---111
Okay Airways Company Limited3----3
Oman Air (SAOC)6---28
Pegasus Airlines2----2
PrivatAir----11
Qantas----44
Qatar Airways---4711
Republic of Iraq5----5
Royal Air Maroc----11
Ruili Airlines1----1
Ryanair24----24
Saudi Arabian Airlines---5-5
Sberbank Leasing2----2
Scoot Pte Ltd----1010
Shandong Airlines11----11
Shanghai Airlines5----5
Shenzhen Airlines10----10
Silk Way Airlines-1---1
SilkAir6----6
Singapore Airlines---4-4
SMBC Aviation Capital12----12
Southwest Airlines19----19
Sriwijaya Air2----2
SunExpress Airlines5----5
Thai Airways International---3-3
Timaero Ireland Limited4----4
TUI Travel PLC5---49
Turkish Airlines5--7-12
Unidentified Customer(s)9--4-13
United Airlines23---1134
United States Navy15----15
Vietnam Airlines----44
Virgin Atlantic Airways----77
Virgin Australia Airlines5----5
WestJet12----12
Xiamen Airlines16---420
Total 2015 Deliveries495181698135762



737747767777787Total


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 The 787 report:

This section below  is dedicated to the 787 program only, and it shows 135 787's delivered in 2015 with seven more additions in January and one for February 1, 2016.












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Max Wake-Up The Day After

Usually first landings of a first airplane type can invoke many images for everybody concerned, including investors. The 787 landed with much intensity for its innovation, and the 747-100 landed with much awe. However, the 737 Max landed the maker with much assurance. A strange condition emerged from all of the pomp and ceremony for the "Max first flight". The aviation world seemed to have shrugged.

Image result for 737 max first flight

Even though 4, 000 Boeing faithful stood in the Seattle rain applauding, where cameras clicked every frame of its takeoff and landing, there was a muted enthusiasm in the world of aviation. It became another 737 taking-off or landing every two seconds somewhere in the world. Boeing, apparently failed in getting world-wide Shock and Awe out of the Max first flight or even for its first landing (note some first flights don't even land on its landing gears).

All that can be said about first flight is it handled marvelously and was remarkably quiet in the cabin during its flight. The CFM engines purred. Perhaps that is how Boeing scripted the experience, and how it also tested out on the ground before first flight. Maybe Boeing is keeping a big secret before its first delivery to SWA. This bird has taken 50 years to build, test and fly after-all. The secret and the excitement is not found in Max's first flight, but in what the flight test equipment indicated when bolted to the 737 deck and reported to the "nerds-in- charge" about what just happened. The next year will change the 737 imperceptibly. You can say the Max will be maximized by December 2016.

·      Did the on-board test stations follow the Boeing Script of showing a 15% performance enhancement?
·      Does laminar flow technology make it better than the NEO?
·      Did the GE-CFM LEAP-1B engine pull/push the Max through and into single aisle Nirvana?  

These and many other astute questions will be answered, not from its first flight, but from months of testing following what was just kicked-off. In American football, the kickoff sailed out back of the end-zone and the 737 Max now starts on the twenty or twenty-five yard line depending on the rule imposed.

In the factory, slow then go, is the new norm. Both the Max and NG are going at a pace within the same space which inspires an opus. The Max, One note at a time pacing. The follow-on Max are to be produced very carefully in a slow time beat. Speed comes from careful production improvements not from seeking overly anxious production numbers. By the time Max first delivery is achieved, production excellence will meet the customer. 

The summer tests flight will really tell what Boeing has wrought. Boeing sales people can then say factual say things to potential customers in hushed tones. Sales teams say,"Where Testing is showing more like 17% improvement, shhh, don't let that out, it's between us!" The NEO already flew out to the customer and the MAX can undermine the Airbus early high ground with an optimal Max that is to follow.

The Max still remains a mystery after first flight, the longer it stays a mystery, the more the hype will build in the marketplace for the MAX. Sales will shadow the testing program, as it progresses through the tests. Sales will follow, as the NEO is in a fixed position of frozen production design, as the MAX can erode its lead.


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Saturday, January 30, 2016

Refine Enhance and Improve, The 737 Goes REI Into The World

The 737 is the moving target for Airbus. It has been around a long while. Making its first flight in April 1967. I had to get a calculator to figure out how far back the proof of concept flight was until yesterday, or about 49 years ago. If born in April 1967, and being a Boeing employee, you may be seeking a retirement plan adjustment very soon for optimizing your retirement's upcoming good fortune. The 737 started on the chalkboard in 1964, in the age of chalk, pencil and slide rulers. Those leading pilgrims have since passed. The post baby boomers had just come into the world. They are leading the Max 737 charge today.

The REI moniker is not for the Seattle area outdoor sporting goods seller, it's for the 737 maker, Boeing. The Max represents 50 plus years of developing the single aisle 737. 

Boeing has refined the 737 Max from the production floor up. It also has enhanced this model as found with new cockpit displays found in the world's other most advanced and modern aircraft (787). The Max is a symbol of improving on what works well after fifty years of progressions starting with CFM engine improvement.

The basic conceptualization of the Max, "if it works well don't reinvent", but just make it better. Boeing has turned a page in its playbook, and has not blinked from competitive swings, as it has kept its eye on the ball. The Max is an aircraft you will feel the difference as a passenger, notice the difference on corporate bottom lines, and refrain the experience with your fellow travelers.

All this is possible from the collective experience of fifty years and hundreds of thousands employees pouring those collective years of knowledge, skills and abilities into one airframe. The 737 Max represent its people and the sum of all its talents. You don't need another Dreamliner invention, you need another 737 having all that innovation applied from Boeing's 100,000 years of people experience.   


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Friday, January 29, 2016

She Flies Like A Duck, Its Seattle After-all

The 737 Max did its nerd thing today in stormy weather. Being so busy on a Friday, I watched the replay on Boeing.com website. Cheers were heard from those in rain gear. The 737 Max is waterproof and can handle a wind chop on approach. It looks bigger than the NG version of the 737. It was the rain that did that optical on my senses. The engine sound was so-in-the-world of high sound frequency the rumble didn't exist. 

 Maybe the bass was not turned on with the filming equipment, as it made me squirm a bit with an American Idol reference of being a little "pitchy". It achieved a hollow engine echo, as if a hair dryer was in your ear. These are my critiques about the flawless Max first flight on a stormy wind-chop day. Brave or confident is the program current stance. If it had been a 787 first flight, it would have never been launched on a day like this, but the Max has matured more than we may know, as it braved the storming gusts with success. The claim of quieter engines suffered from rainy conditions, and a strange audio settings on shrill. Tomorrow, the flying test schedule starts with more flights and for the next 12 months.

Max First Flight January 29, 2016
Rainy Day Sounds Of CFM Max Power


Signing -off with a quick and dirty analysis Just after diner.
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