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[quote user="passengerfan"] [quote user="gardendance"] [quote user="HarveyK400"] Asuming there are viable HSR corridors, why not start with well cars with TGV-type trucks and electronic brakes?  Adding fiberglass covers to reduce drag around different size, boxy, and often outside-ribbed containers poses issues for overhead power and transfer operations that need to be resolved.  And design the electrical system for longer trains of multiple coupled blocks. [/quote] are you related to Trains magazine columnist John Kneiling? [quote user="Sam1"] Airbus may have learned a lesson or two from the SST, albeit how not to do it, but it is successful largely because it developed a business model that could compete with the American large commercial airplane manufacturers. [/quote] Formula for success: pay attention to everything they do, and make sure you do the exact opposite. It got George Costanza his job at the Yankees. [/quote] First off Airbus only seems successful. The new plane has fallen far short of sales expectations and is still unable to pay its way which means more heavy subsidies from the European governments behind this Company. Boeing on the other hand has a new plane the 787 Dreamliner that has firm sales on the books for over 900 planes and deliveries will begin in 2009.  Maybe this time Airbus guessed wrong that bigger was better. Boeing still continues to sell newer versions of the 747 outpacing Airbus sales of there new plane 26 to 1. If you look carefully at Airbus sales there largest customers are the National carriers of the countries that build it. The new Airbus is being purchased for extremely long well patronized routes and few airports as this is written are capable of handling the new plane. The Boeing 737 is the most widely flown airliner in the world and continues to be a best seller as newer versions are built. Al - in - Stockton [/quote] Airbus produces a large stable of commercial jet airplanes.  The A-380 is just one of its offerings.  Since 2000 Airbus has sold more airplanes in many of the intervening years than Boeing.  North American operators of Airbus airplanes include United Airlines, US Airways, Jet Blue, Frontier and Air Canada.  They are not government owned carriers.  Nope, not Air Canada.  It has been privatized.  In fact, many of the so-called government owned airlines, i.e. Qantas, Air New Zealand, Air France, etc. have been privatized in part or wholly.
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