A New Divergence.

This article presents information on the range, life-cycle costs, operating efficiencies and airline requirements are the conventional stuff of the marketing battle between Airbus and Boeing. Boeing is assigning an especially high profile to its use of advanced technologies on its midsize 7E7 and their enhancement of the aircraft's passenger appeal. At the top of its technology list is the dominant position given to carbon fiber reinforced plastics in the fuselage and wings. The 7E7's design concept is so important to Boeing that it turned to a longtime industrial consultant, Walter D., Teague Associates, to define the aircraft's exterior shape.