barb@oliven.UUCP (Barbara Jernigan) (02/11/86)
A lot of shuttle replacement estimates have been tossed around lately. Just to get a perspective (I'm not very good at all those zeros), how much does a Boeing 747 cost -- or a Lockheed L10-11? Or, for that matter, a prototype aircraft of the same (commercial) scale? Barb
hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) (02/13/86)
In article <515@oliven.UUCP> barb@oliven.UUCP (Barbara Jernigan) writes: >A lot of shuttle replacement estimates have been tossed around lately. >Just to get a perspective (I'm not very good at all those zeros), how >much does a Boeing 747 cost -- or a Lockheed L10-11? Or, for that matter, >a prototype aircraft of the same (commercial) scale? As I recall, the 747's cost around $25 million per copy when they first appeared. I expect that's increased somewhat since. I think the cost of a new Shuttle would be about two orders of magnitude higher, but the two aren't really comparable anyway. They're very different systems designed to perform very different tasks. (747's don't have to keep internal pressure against hard vacuum, re-enter the atmosphere at Mach 22+, or keep their crews alive for a week with no outside resources. Shuttles don't have to carry 500+ passengers and land at airports in heavily populated areas). Another consideration to factor in: According to one of my profs at UCLA (a current Rockwell employee) Rockwell shut down the production line and let all the subcontractors go when Lockheed won the Shuttle maintenance contract. They'd have to put all that back together, virtually from scratch, before they could start to build another one. -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe) Citicorp(+)TTI 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. Geniuses are people so lazy they Santa Monica, CA 90405 do everything right the first time. (213) 450-9111, ext. 2483 {philabs,randvax,trwrb,vortex}!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe
ahv@masscomp.UUCP (Tony Verhulst) (02/14/86)
In article <156@ttidcc.UUCP> hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) writes: >>Just to get a perspective (I'm not very good at all those zeros), how >>much does a Boeing 747 cost -- or a Lockheed L10-11? Or, for that matter, > >As I recall, the 747's cost around $25 million per copy when they first >appeared. Some models of the Boeing 747 are close to $100 million today.