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What a week it was.

• Bombardier expects at least 300 CSeries orders by EIS: Scott
• Udvar-Hazy sets high bar for 787 profitability, performance
• Boeing should develop new family to succeed 737: Udvar-Hazy
• Boeing to miss 787 performance spec: Albaugh
• A350-1000 needs more thrust to meet performance: Udvar-Hazy
• Trent XWB engine "certainly sufficient" to power A350-1000: Airbus
• IAE eyes military applications for V2500 plus further upgrade
• Boeing looks at increasing 737 output to 42 per month
• FAA scrutinises in-flight Wi-Fi interference with avionics
• P&W relocates PW1524G FETT for natural icing tests
• Boeing confirms 20 March target for 747-8I first flight
• Airbus sees overlap on A320 and A320neo production

And if you haven't already seen it, here's the widebody and narrowbody assessments of Steven Udvar-Hazy. Each post here and on Runway Girl covers the industry icon's complete answers on a myriad of topics.

SCOTTSDALE -- Steven Udvar-Hazy, the most high-profile and influential man in aircraft leasing, gave journalists a lengthy interview immediately following the International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading (ISTAT) conference today.

Because Udvar-Hazy shared his thoughts on so many topics, Runway Girl Mary Kirby and I have decided to break the lion's share of the interview on our blogs. Mary's blog covers Udvar-Hazy's comments about narrowbody aircraft, while I'm taking the widebodies.

For the sake of historical context, here's Udvar-Hazy's last interview with this page from February 2008's Singapore Air Show, prior to the launch of the CSeries, 787-3 cancellation and global economic crisis.

The complete interview is continued below the fold.

SCOTTSDALE -- During his ISTAT presentation, I had a chance to ask Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Jim Albaugh about the performance of the 787, which is readying to enter service with Japan's All Nippon Airways in the third quarter.

FlightBlogger: A question about the payload range performance of the 787. At what point are you going to be able to deliver a 787 that flies fully 8,000nm, fully fueled and with full payload?

Jim Albaugh: Well right now if you look at the airplanes that we're going to deliver we meet the missions that our customers have put in place for us to meet. Now, I'll be the first to admit that we're not going to meet the spec, but I think we'll be able to meet what our guarantees are. And you got to remember, the first airplanes are going to be a little heavy, there are a lot of things that we're going to do to clean the airplane up, a lot of things to do with the engine manufacturers, and I feel pretty comfortable that over time we'll be able to get to the numbers that you just quoted. When that date's going to be, I can't tell you.

UPDATE 7:02 PM MST: Here's my complete story on Albaugh's comments, including what Boeing, GE and Rolls-Royce have planned to regain the aircraft's payload range performance.