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Article: ' BOEING TAKES A LEAP INTO THE FUTURE `OUR CUSTOMERS ... SHARE OUR VIEW THAT THIS NEW AIRPLANE COULD CHANGE THE WAY THE WORLD FLIES AS DRAMATICALLY AS DID THE INTRODUCTION OF THE JET AGE.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- March 30, 2001
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Look out, Airbus, here comes Boeing's Sonic Cruiser.
Rather than continue with the development of a bigger derivative of its 30-year-old 747 jumbo jet, The Boeing Co. announced yesterday that it will once again push headlong into the frontiers of commercial aviation and build a revolutionary jetliner that will look and perform like none built before.
As he unveiled an artist's sketch of the strange-looking plane that will cruise above 40,000 feet at just under the speed of sound, Alan Mulally, president and chief executive officer of commercial airplanes, borrowed a line from company founder Bill Boeing:
"Let no improvement in flying pass us ...