Airbus vs. Boeing

List of Acronyms.- Preface.- Introduction.- Chapter 1: Important Characteristics of Civilian Transports.- Chapter 2: Cautious Innovation: Key to Market Success?.- Chapter 3: Titanic Battles.- Chapter 4:Clash of the Engine Makers.- Chapter 5: The Future.- Epilogue.- Appendix A: Airbus and Boeing Orders and Deliveries as of Dec 31, 2017.- Appendix B: Specific Fuel Burn of Various Aircraft, past, present and future.- Appendix C: Titanic History.- Appendix D: Electric and Hybrid Aircraft.- Appendix E: Testing for Certification.- Appendix F:Aircraft Checks.- Appendix G: Pilot's Perspective.- Appendix H:Operational Costs.- Appendix I: How Long can a Flight Last?.- Appendix J: Winglets and Other Wingtip Devices.- Appendix K: Comparison of Airbus A350 and Boeing B787.- Appendix L: Comparison of P&W GTF and CFM LEAP.- Appendix M: Aircraft Design Issues.- Appendix N: Engine Installation.- Appendix O: Payload-Range Charts.- Appendix P: Runway Length Requirements (Takeoff and Landing).- Appendix Q: Airport Planning Documents.- Appendix R: Aero Terminology.- Further Reading.- Flight Global Cutaways of Salient Aircraft.

The senior author, Prof. Lakshmi Kantha, was trained as an engineer, holding a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master's degree in Aeronautical Engineering. He obtained his doctorate from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT in 1973. With his Aerodynamics and Aerospace Propulsion background, Professor Kantha has had a lifelong passion for aircraft and rockets, and the engines that propel them.After spending time at Johns Hopkins and Princeton Universities, Dr. Kantha worked at the US Navy Labs in Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, helping the US Navy develop a forecast capability in the marginal seas around the world. He joined the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1990 as a Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences. He teaches a required undergraduate course on Fundamentals of Aerospace Propulsion. He also teaches graduate courses on Aircraft Propulsion and Rocket Propulsion and is authoring a comprehensive book on these topics. He oversaw the Hybrid Sounding Rocket (HySoR) graduate project, funded by United Launch Alliance (ULA), to design, build and fly a 2-kg payload to 10-km altitude. He is currently supervising building and testing a 50-lbf thrust, 3-D printed rocket engine, funded by ULA. Having worked in both science and engineering fields, he has a unique perspective on the current state of the airline industry and the aircraft and engine manufacturers that satisfy the industry's needs.



Dr. Kantha is also the author of three books, two of them published by Academic Press (now part of Elsevier) in 2000. One of these books has been translated into Chinese. His latest book, Migration on Wings, was published by Springer and deals with the aerodynamics and energetics of long-distance migration by birds.The junior author, Kiran Kantha, is a recent graduate of the Denver Metro State University. He is an aspiring pilot and plans to one day pilot one of the new airliners. He is