The earliest reference to a re-engined 737 I could find on FlightBlogger was from Decemeber 2008, when this page speculated – in conjunction with Air Insight’s Scott Hamilton – on the then-dubbed 737 “Re-Generation”. The Re-Gen, as it never turned out to be known, became the Boeing Sky Interior, CFM56-7BE engine and external drag clean up, not the re-engined 737 that we see today in the MAX.
Nearly three years later we have our answer and that’s the Leap-1B-powered 737 MAX family. Hamilton, along with IAG Inc.’s Addison Schonland and I sat down to discuss this week’s announcement from Boeing. We covered the knowns and many unknowns (fan size, configuration, manufacturing) about this new aircraft that will enter service in 2017, including the extensiveness of the changes Boeing will have to make – from a strategic perspective – to accommodate the new CFM engine.
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