The Boeing Company President and Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally unveiled a large, detailed model of its newest commercial airplane, the Sonic Cruiser, at the Paris Air Show in June. The model, a 1/40-iscale replica six feet in length, reveals a sleek, innovative design that in-cludes a large wing placed farther back on the fuselage than today's jetliner designs, and a pair of canards — small, wing-like extensions — near the nose of the airplane.
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