Boeing 7E7 Announcement

Airbus has done the same job as Boeing indeed, only
better").

Well, it would have been more accurate if he had written: Airbus has
done the same job as Boeing, only newer. That's certainly true. From a
pilot's point of view (not that many people care about that) the
Airbus line has a great advantage in that all glass cockpits are
alike, or can be made so, whereas analog instruments are unique to the
era in which they were built.

But newness is as newness does. It seems to me that the tail is less
likely to fall off a Boeing jet, and surely that is more important
than the pilot's comfort in transitioning from a small jet to a large
one.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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