Supersonic commercial aircraft like Concorde and Tupolev Tu-144 faces a lot of drawbacks and design challenges, which include pesky sonic booms during flight, high cost to develop, safety issue, great weight, increased in cost per seat over subsonic airline, and insatiable fuel consumption.
Sonic booms. A sonic boom is a sound created by a supersonic aircraft traveling through the air at a speed faster than the speed of sound. During the flight, the supersonic aircraft tends to generate a massive amount of sound energy, which was so disruptive that several countries have to restrict or completely prohibit such aircraft from flying over land (Kachoria, 2013). Nonetheless, countries like the United State, Great Britain and France had allowed Trans-Atlantic flights only.
High cost. The cost of developing a supersonic commercial aircraft (Concorde) is around £1.870 billion in the 1950’s, which was funded by the France and the British government as report by Concordesst website and it is 6 times the cost of developing a Boeing B747 ($300 million) (Gates, 2010). Supersonic commercial air...
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Before going deep into the problem, it is important to have an overview at the history of supersonic flight. Supersonic transport or SST came into development soon after World War II. During the 50s’, there were four nations competing in this new industry: France, Britain, American, and the Soviet Union. However, there were only 3 sides in this competition as Britain and France agreed on a joint development program (Drake & Purvis, 2001, p.3). The France and Britain collaboration resulted in the legendary Concorde, the name that everyone always mention when talking about supersonic transport. In the far-east, the Soviet Union worked on a similar design to the Concorde, called TU-144. In 1968, the TU-144 had its first flight on 31 December, one year earlier than the Concorde. Meanwhile in the United Stat...
On July 17, 1996, Trans World Airlines flight 800, A Boeing 747-100, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near New York 12 minutes after its departure. All 230 people on board died.
Executive Summary A key factor in determining a project's viability is its cost of capital [WACC]. The estimation of Boeing's WACC must be consistent with the overall valuation approach and the definition of cash flows to be discounted. Note that this process is a forward-looking focus and is laden with uncertainty. It is how the assumptions are modeled that many costly mistakes can be made.
JetBlue Airways Corporation has been a rapidly growing discount airline and biggest success story in the industry by using its strong customer service considerations and low fares to build a solid, growing customer base.
In lights of the PESTLE model, the political factors bring both opportunities and threats to Jetstar’s new proposal. Since this proposal focus on the Australia-India low price airline market, the analysis conducts involving Australia and India political environments. There are two potential opportunities in this political environment. Firstly, the Australian government has the incentive to boost the development of tourism between the two countries (Tourism Australia 2012). With the support of government, the start of the new route could be easier. For example, American government erects legislation to increase competition of the airport ‘by forcing these airports to increase the availability of scarce facilities’ (Williams 2015). Such legislations and regulations as well as financing investment or subsidies from government could directly help the airline company cut the cost. Similarly, Australian government could also have powerful intervention to influence aviation market. Thus, it is a big opportunity for Jetstar to the new route expansion if it acquires the
The future of the aerospace industry will involve gradual changes in the near term, with the prospect of more radical shifts in the decades t...
Jet2 is a mainly internet-based airline company which flies from six UK based airports to over 30 various locations around Europe.
Boeing/Airbus Case Analysis Competition in the Commercial Aircraft Business. With only a few large companies across the globe (Boeing, MD, and Airbus), the commercial aircraft industry essentially exhibits the qualities of an oligopolistic competition with intense rivalry. Here is an analysis of competition in the commercial aircraft business using Porter’s Five Forces. Figure 1: Porter’s Five Forces Applied to Aircraft Industry. Barrier to entry: - High barriers to entry, to a certain extent, help understand the risks involved in operating in the aircraft industry.
The Concorde broke new ground when it had its maiden flight. This plane was far different then any other aircraft, People describes as‘spaceship’ looking. The time it would take you to cross the Atlantic was never seen or heard before. March 2nd 1969, The first concorde flight. Hundreds of reports gathered in Toulouse, France, to watch the first take off, even though this flight was very short, it was the first test and all the work that had been going on and the planning for year prior is paying off and finally it wanted to show the world about the future of aviation and transportation. The first commercial flight was from London-Heathrow to Bahrain on January 21st 1976. Many countries and airlines wanted a concorde to call their own. Out of all 26 concedes that were manufactured, 2 are owned by government and the rest are owned by Britsh Airways and Air France. This sound breaker of a plane could hold 100 passengers and 4 crew members. Typically this is a small amount of seats for a plane, The Airbus A330 (the largest commercial airplane) can hold up to 535 passengers which first flight was in 1987. The most traveled route by the Concorde was from New York, USA to London. Passengers will pay top dollar for this flight because the duration of ...
More cost-effective modes of space transportation are necessary to make further exploration possible. One new, cost effective design is the aerospace plane. These spacecraft are totally reusable and can take off and land like a normal plane (Booth 80). Anything reusable cuts costs. Many commercial spaceflight companies are interested in this design because so much money can be saved.
Sound is defined as areas of high and low pressure that move outward to form a longitudinal wave. The amplitude and pitch of the sound is dependent on the source and amount of energy produced. Sound is produced by vibrating objects, the vibrations cause disturbances in the surrounding air molecules. When the vibrating object moves outward it causes the air molecules around it to compress and create a high pressure region. As the object moves inward the air molecules expand and create a low pressure region. The high pressure regions are called compressions and the low pressure regions rarefactions. The equation of sound waves is speed = wavelength x frequency or v = f x .
By closely analyzing the president of Boeing, Jim Albaugh, announcement, "the days of duopoly with Airbus are over in the small commercial jets", we have to realize that the future of the large commercial aircraft won't be as it looks like today.
A sound wave is pressure variations in air. Sound waves move through air the same as a wave in water. A sound wave is caused by an objects vibrations that cause the air surrounding it to vibrate. When the air vibrates it, the ear drum picks up the vibrations and translates them to the brain. Then the brain interprets the translations (Owens). Sound is the vibration of matter. Sound cannot travel in a vacuum. Sound is a longitudinal wave. Rapid vibrations of the object create longitudinal or compression waves of sound (Kurtus).
Boeing 787 Dreamliner was first announced to the public in January 2003 with approximated costs of five billion dollars , since the sales of the aircraft were high it was supposed to enter commercial service during 2008 but the building up of aircraft seemed more anticipated than expected , since the management decided to use composite materials as an alternative for traditional metals as composite materials are lighter , stronger , cheaper and also resistance to wild variety of chemical agents including acid rain and salt spray as these are the conditions under which metals suffer , Boeing also shared their views in development of air craft with suppliers which effected in a project significantly more anticipated than expected . More than three years later after the project exceeded the estimated budget at last 787 entered commercial service in September 2011.