Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental - The Canary Bird Of Aviation Industry

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am truly sorry but The Boeing Company will have to adjust the production rates of its aircraft types to the market demand of the future which is nearly equal to zero...

Boeing 747-8 and other variants    - 2 pieces/ month
Boeing 777-8X and -9X                 - 2 pieces/ month
Boeing 787 Dreamliner                  - 4 pieces/ month
Boeing 767 Intercity                       - 2 pieces/ month
Boeing 737 MAX                           - 2 pieces/ month

Boeing 747-8 and other variants - 240 machines in 10 years and 720 machines in 30 years

The Boeing Company is one of the strongholds of the US economy (in 2013 they produced 10 satellites next to countless airplanes, too) so its future is really relevant... Although the market of commercial aircraft threatens to collapse I am clearly and seriously against stopping the production of any commercial aircraft type of Boeing - however I can only explain this decision of mine in a difficult way...

During decades The Boeing Company, or the United States of America or mankind in general developed their capability to produce astonishing commercial aircraft for many purposes, at an excellent quality, glancing with passenger comfort and fuel-efficiency... It would be a way of self-destruction to give up our capability to build the commercial aircraft of 21st Century and perhaps to develop even further interesting concepts to reality, too...

Because of the full collapse of the commercial aviation market I don't know how many of the ready aircraft are used in the future and in what kind of terms (routes, schedule or seating plans)... However I think it makes very much a sense to produce commercial aircraft at a low monthly production rate and to store them at guarded airfields for 30 years... Ready-made aircraft without an interior finish could wait for their possible usage as commercial airplanes or private jets and I have the feeling they meant a kind of security that way to all mankind...

Naturally, because of the circumstances of the full collapse of the commercial aviation market the flying public would get rid of additional fees, taxes, charges and surcharges over the calculated price of flight tickets - for ever... And also naturally, what I put down about the temporary reduction of production rates at The Boeing Company without stopping the assembling of any commercial aircraft is also valid without restrictions for Airbus of the European Union and their amazing airplanes...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Fairy Tale About The Difference Between Fairy Tales And The Life Of Billionaires

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Once upon a time, Röfi, Töfi and Böfi, the 3 billionaires met the youngest son of a poor man...

The youngest son of the poor men asked Röfi for first, after having a look at the Rolls-Royce of Röfi... "Is it possible that I dwell in your guest room during my university studies?"

"I am very sorry" Röfi replied "but you are asking something impossible from me... I am a man, too so you living in my house and me would seem to be homosexuals and the CIA does not tolerate that..."

The youngest son of the poor man asked Töfi next, after having a look at the Los Angels villa of Töfi... "Is it possible that you make me to your business partner? I have an idea that was able to make 4-cylinder combustion engines as efficient as never seen before..."

"I am very sorry" Töfi replied "but you are asking something impossible from me... I have several friends already and I can only buy the production rights of your patent for a fair percentage... We can be friends maybe in 10 years..."

Finally the youngest son of the poor man asked Böfi, after having a look at price of the shares of the company of Böfi... "Is it possible that your company starts production in my home country?"

"I am very sorry" Böfi replied "but you are asking something impossible from me... Expenses of production are too high in your country already and it makes much more sense to look for less developed countries as locations for an investment..."

The youngest son of the poor man was seriously confused as he had to face the fact that extremely rich men are not able to help any of his problems... He had to see in that a very big fortune does not make you able to solve the problems of the life of others - at least not in his case... Finally the youngest son of the poor man started to look for friends who are not a total disappointment and he imagined the Kingdom of Heaven as a fully different world than the starting 21st Century...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Boeing 747-9 Intercontinental - The New Queen Of The Skies

Boeing 747-9 Intercontinental - The Breakthrough

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Let me introduce the newest project of The Boeing Company, that means a significantly longer version of the Jumbo Jet of Boeing to you through a comparison to the already existing Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental...


                         Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental            Boeing 747-9 Intercontinental

Overall length: 76.3 m                                                 85.3 m
Wing span:       68.5 m                                                 68.5 m
Tail height:       19.4 m                                                 19.4 m

Interior
Cabin Width:    6.1 m                                                   6.1 m

Passengers
Typical 3-class
configuration:    467                                                      548

Engines:            4x GEnx-2B67                                    4x CFM International LEAP
                                                                                           with Speed Tubes
Maximum
thrust:                296 kN each                                        100 - 120 kN each
                                                                                       (without Speed Tubes)

Tires on front
landing gear:     2                                                          4
Tires on main
landing gear:     16                                                        20

Price:                 USD 356.9 Million                             USD 396.9 Million


What kind of advantages would a Boeing 747-9 Intercontinental have compared to the 747-8 version? First of all, it would be more environmentally friendly: it carried 81 more passengers which means a smaller fuel consumption per seat and it had a smaller fuel consumption in general, too because of its advanced technologies... The operating costs of the Boeing 747-9 Intercontinental would be smaller than those of the shorter version, too...

According to computer calculations a reduction in the fuel consumption by 2.5% could be expected from a Boeing 747-9 Intercontinental compared to a Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental - at the same cruising speed and at an increased number of passengers... I guess because of the powerful structure and the reliable technologies of the Boeing 747-9 Intercontinental all luxury and show effects of the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental were able to be transferred to the newest version of the Jumbo Jet...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental Or Freighter - Decoliner

Ladies and Gentlemen,

"Decoliner" means an aircraft that only looks from the outside like an aircraft - inside it is a subway car... When a Jumbo Jet of Boeing leaves behind over 10,000 km in an hour (in other words: nearly all city pairs on Earth can be connected by a Jumbo Jet of Boeing within 1 or 2 hours) then you can use this immense speed for realising "standing places" on the airliner, too... For a healthy man or woman it is not a problem to spend 1 or 2 hours in a standing position physically...

One big problem is to ensure a fully secure take-off and a fully secure landing - with the safety as on aircraft with passenger seats... This basic security requirement can be full-filled by a foldable and multi-purpose whip-basket which is hanging down from a strong frame made of carbon-fibre plastic... Another big problem is how you can spend your time in a meaningful way and in a standing position during cruising... According to me it made the most sense to do all kinds of body exercises by the help of the above mentioned strong frame out of carbon-fibre plastic...

Naturally, on the Upper Deck of a Boeing 747-8 Decoliner there should be economy class and lie-flat-seats for exhausted passengers... A SkyLoft with approx. 20 berths in the crown space could be used by the most exhausted passengers or as a medical facility... Taking a shower after exercising for 1 or 2 hours cannot be solved for hundreds of passengers onboard a Jumbo Jet but specially prepared airports should await tourists with an interest in fitness with plenty of showers and locker rooms... Taking some food or drink to you during flight could be organised by a snack bar, maybe in a forward observation deck in the unique bow of the Jumbo Jet of Boeing...

Unfortunately I have no idea of how many of the take-off-, landing- and exercise-frames could be installed onboard of a Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental or Freighter - I have reckoned with the possibility of carrying 420 (7 abreast x 60) to 500 passengers at a flight...

"A Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental is a Renaissance Airplane!" (JDLM)
"I am going to give birth..." (Madonna)

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

New Concorde - Our Design Philosophy

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Birds don't suffer in a bird-cage or in an aviary... Because they don't like flying, they only have to fly in their everyday life... It is humans who enjoy flying (even in space) but humans are much further developed living creatures than birds - so the needs of birds are also more primitive...

For a full-filled human life you don't need to be able to sing nicely - it is also o.k. if you are talented and colourful in some other respect...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental - Coolness

Ladies and Gentlemen,

There is little coolness in the passengers of the business class of an airplane, according to me...

Why does anyone travel in the business class?

In the business class you can work, they say... a) People who work during a flight instead of admiring the landscape or of socialising or of taking a rest simply (including modern electronic entertainment) must hate flying... b) It is impossible to work among people who are eating, sleeping, watching TV, having a conversation or living an intensive emotional life... I don't know what kind of work you can arrange even during 15 hours, for example: "I am planning a house..." People who claim to work on commercial airplanes must be lying... c) When the main purpose of your journey is doing business somewhere then you fly alone, without kids and wife, not to mention a group of tourists or of friends... I guess people who travel alone have got the most chances to visit tourist attractions at their destination in a paradox way - they must be selfish...

In the business class you have got much better opportunities in terms of lie-flat-seats to sleep than in the economy class... But why do you prepare to sleep on airplanes? Either you are too much afraid of flying or you trust the security of commercial aircraft in a sensational way (in a similar way to the flying personnel)...

In the economy class you can have different flying experiences in a sitting position and you can take a nip as well... In the first class you can have different flying experiences, too surrounded by so much luxury that you don't think of working... In the first class you can sleep in a full-size bed however it is a matter of absolute luck if you can be a first class passenger or not - so you don't plan sleeping onboard of an airplane, similarly to economy class passengers...

Depending on the amount of the flying public economy class seats cannot be only "coach seats" but they can be more comfortable lie-flat-seats, as well... On the other hand, just onboard the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental a SkyLoft enables approx. 20 berths in the crown space which were able to mean first class traveling for 20 more passengers... (On a Boeing 777X the crown space could even contain 2 x 20 berths - regarding the respectable length of the aircraft - if passengers were ready to traffic in a very low corridor in a sitting position to their beds and back to the stairs...) When all is said and done, it would be most important according to me that 3-class seating plans and the business class disappear because of the above mentioned unfriendly and perhaps dangerous flying audience of the business class...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Airbus A340-600 - Zero Gravity

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I'm afraid there is zero gravity onboard Airbus A340-500 and A340-600 type aircraft during normal flight conditions and cruising, respectively... That is why an Airbus A340 is (as an ingenious engineering idea) a longer version of the Airbus A330 with (in case of the greater variants) 4 powerful engines - however they lack further modifications in details... So an Airbus A340-500 or -600 are speeding through the sky like an arrow which means they want to leave the curvature of Earth taking passengers with themselves who are more pressed into the seats than subjects to the gravitational force of the Earth, just like in case of very fast sports cars... It is also true that an Airbus A340-500 or A340-600 are so fast already that the passengers in them take off from Earth just like in the seats of a carousel on the curved still ideal route from their airports of departure to their destination airports on the spherical surface of Planet Earth...

The solution for the sports-car effect would be to enlarge the horizontal elevators of the Airbus A340 aircraft (especially in case of the greater variants) so that the airliners have got "spoilers" which press them down towards Earth - juts like sports cars have got spoilers... The solution for the carousel-effect would be the usage of the "super-cruise" navigation program instead of the already conventional curved routes between departure and destination airports...

So the Airbus A340-500 and -600 aircraft consume too much from the weight of passengers and not from aircraft fuel...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental - "Out Of Stock"

Ladies and Gentlemen,

It happens only seldom to customers of The Boeing Company that they cannot be offered any fitting product - still there is one big hole in the product range of The Boeing Company, let's call it "Death Valley..." I am meaning the price list of Boeing for the year 2014:

Boeing 737 MAX: about USD 100 Million
Boeing 787 Dreamliner: from over USD 200 Million to nearly USD 300 Million
Boeing 777: about USD 300 Million
Boeing 747-8: over USD 350 Million

In the price category from USD 100 Million to USD 200 Million The Boeing Company do not offer anything to their potential customers... A mid-size Boeing 787 Dreamliner costs between USD 200 Million and USD 300 Million - but the airplane is worth of its price naturally as it is made out of reinforced plastic and contains lots of high-tech in other terms, too... Its predecessor, a Boeing 767 costs between USD 100 Million and USD 200 Million - however no one is interested in this machine any more...

The gap in the price category from USD 100 Million to USD 200 Million could be filled out by a full double-deck version of the Boeing 737 MAX and/or by a remake of the Boeing 767 whose fuselage and wings are made of aluminium but it could be made environmentally friendly by other solutions... Passenger aircraft in the above mentioned price spectrum would mean aircraft for the beginning with commercial aviation from the point of view of passengers but for airlines, too which is a task that cannot be unsolved and what's more you needed modern and exciting solutions if available...

If The Boeing Company has run short of names then the name B757 was able to mean an entirely different aircraft in the 2nd or 3rd decade of 21st Century than in the 1980's... There are the names B707 and B717 and B727, too to be chosen... Competition is not as interesting at the design of your airplanes but Airbus is already represented in the price category from USD 100 Million to USD 200 Million by the Airbus A320neo...

"Lord, I am calling to you from the Valley of Death" (Psalms) - and you will be listened to...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

New Concorde - The Dream Of Flying

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Let us compare the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor to the Boeing 737 MAX 7, 8 and 9 in some of their basic characteristics (weight and thrust):

F-22 Raptor:

Empty weight: 19, 700 kg
Loaded weight: 29, 300 kg
Max. takeoff weight: 38, 000 kg

Fuel capacity:
a) 8, 200 kg internally or
b) 11, 900 kg with 2 external fuel tanks

How do I interpret these weight data of the F-22 Raptor?

Empty weight means the weight of an aircraft in the way it leaves the factory... With 2 shiny new engines, carefully designed fuselage and wings, landing gear and state-of-the-art avionics it is capable of flying...

Loaded weight of a military jet fighter is not explained in Wikipedia but I guess it means the aircraft after armouring by approx. 10 tons of super-materials... Because military jet fighters are armoured, too like tanks, off-roaders or combat helicopters so that they are as bullet-proof as possible...

Maximum takeoff weight means the highest weight which a pilot can attempt a take-off from the runway at... When you add the loaded weight of an F-22 (29, 300 kg) and the internal fuel capacity (8, 200 kg) you get the max. takeoff weight as an approx. result (38, 000 kg)...

I have the feeling that you can add the weight of the external fuel tanks (11, 900 kg) to the maximum takeoff weight when it is about longer flights (or something else) so you get 50, 000 kg as a top weight of a military jet fighter that only carries 1 pilot...

Power-plant: 2 x Pratt and Whitney F119-PW-100 Pitch Thrust vectoring turbofans(!)

Dry thrust: 104 kN each
Thrust with afterburner: 156+ kN each

Boeing 737 MAX:

Max. takeoff weight:

737 MAX 7: 72, 303 kg   (126 seats, 2-class, typical)
737 MAX 8: 82, 191 kg   (162 seats, 2-class, typical)
737 MAX 9: 88, 314 kg   (180 seats, 2-class, typical)

Main engines: 2 x CFM International LEAP turbofan jet engines
Thrust: 100 - 120 kN each

I would like to draw the conclusion from the above that if a poorest F-22 Raptor didn't have to fight with nearly 10 tons of armouring and 12 tons of external fuel tanks which seem to be unnecessary at world peace already on the ground but it had a fuselage and wings of carbon-fibre plastic instead which were not prepared to carry lots of extra-weight then you had a cutting-edge and supersonic private jet for 1 passenger... Such a tiny private jet would be similar to the Boeing Business Jet regarding their value and usability... A BBJ offers maximum space, comfort and range for let's say 8 passengers by a little modification of a commercial passenger jet... A supersonic mini-private-jet would be little enough to be stored in your yard, it could take-off from and land on many ad-hoc runways and it would offer a really fast way to connect continents - at an acceptable performance in the area of environmental protection...

The Rolls-Royce of the skies...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental - Improving Electronic Systems

Ladies and Gentlemen,

How can you avoid broad bundles of data cables on airplanes - which are mostly used for fly-by-wire systems?

a) Instead of a bundle of cables I would only use one single wire for data transfer...

b) However this wire (or bus) should deliver signs or data from the control units to the executive devices at a very high speed and a very high frequency, respectively... I mean there was not only one sign in half an hour for the actuator of a steering surface in a cable but there were millions and millions of signs in a second in a wire for many electronic devices which have to be controlled...

c) That means signs and data should be ordered into a sequence - instead of ruling over one wire alone... However because of the high speed of information transfer it would mean a difficulty to any electronic implementation to wait for a broken part of a second for a sign or data - because this short waiting for some information would spoil reaction times, reliability of electronic systems and security in a significant way...

d) I don't know what types of wires are used currently on Boeing airplanes but in the above described tree of one central sign and data trunk a glass-fibre light-cable should be used - in a similar way to high-speed internet connections - for really fast information transfer and for great reliability...

e) Using - sure is sure - 2 data trees in an airplane instead of bundles of electronic cables made of copper could reduce the weight of airplanes, it could accelerate their assembly and make their eventual reparation easier... Without any negative effect on flight characteristics, according to me...

f) Sending and evaluating signs and data at the required very high speeds wouldn't be any problem if modern GHz-processors processed inputs in the controlling panels and commands in the executive devices...

For my Valued Readers I would like to put down that I don't work for free for The Boeing Company but for a salary that is worth of an example... I would like to say tank you to The Boeing Company for their generosity... Only that I cannot really receive my salary...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Air Force One Concept - For The Pope Of Denver

Ladies and Gentlemen,

When the USA lives in prosperity why not buy the largest airplane of the world, the Airbus A380 which is very fashionable among large airplanes nowadays for the purposes of an Air Force One machine?

The King of the USA and the Durable President of the USA (my modest person) will be best supplied by 2 Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental VIP jets... While the Pope of Denver who cannot travel on anything else than a private jet called Air Force One, too could receive an Airbus A380 VIP - French products often succeed in the United States...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental - LIGHT

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I have hidden an invention of mine in the below 3 pictures... So that you find out my invention you have to search for the 2 significant differences among the 3 pictures - out of the point of view of energy efficiency...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team