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

Boeing 737 MAX Ecoliner Concept - Extended Sky Interior

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Why do you carry the picture of the General Manager of Airbus on Boeing airplanes? Because you are grateful to Him...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental - Have You Ever Seen Us Defeated

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Let me present to you the new Blogging Superstar of The Boeing Company: Miss Brandy Tinseth! The choice was made by the usual procedure of electing a Beauty Queen: questions about environmental protection, the economy of the USA and the future of The Boeing Company (CMO 2014)...

For Brandy, the marketing director of Boeing it was most important to glance in an evening dress, of course...

Here you have some applicants in a swimming dress:

Which Brandy is going to guide you through the eventful life of The Boeing Company actually you can learn at: Boeing.com

Parallel to the above change I would like to announce the title of my new interactive show on YouTube: the VIDEO JET... Higher speed, more intense emotions and more visits to the USA... (Between 2009 and 2014: none...) Check out: YouTube

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team