[MMike]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/boeingaerospace/

This is a big deal! The first plastic airplane! I hope the weather cooperates.

Better late than never and all that.....


http://787firstflight.newairplane.com/ffindex.html

live web feed

 

[Pesqueeb]

Aren't you the optimist. The size of those flight displays is amazing.

 

[splat]

SO who is the source of the New Engine ?

 

[DRB]

SO who is the source of the New Engine ?

Isn't it GE?

 

[splat]

Isn't it GE?

I think it is. I should ask My older brother about it , since His Works For GE as there Sr Jet Engine control designer.

 

[MMike]

it is..

They had talked about interchangeability with rolls royce engines, but it would have been too complex

 

[Andyman_1970]

This is a big deal! The first plastic airplane! I hope the weather cooperates.

Are the wings "plastic" or traditional AL skin over AL structure?

If by plastic we're talking carbon fiber composite, then the Beech Starship, Premier 1, and Hawker Horizon / 4000 beat the 787.......but it's the first airliner that's "plastic".......I'll give you that one

 

[Pesqueeb]

Yes, and we all recall what a major success the Starship was. The wings on the 787 are all composite if I recall correctly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bV_V4U0iX4w&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bV_V4U0iX4w&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Watching the coverage right now

 

[MMike]

ZA001 is taxi-ing right now

 

[Andyman_1970]

Yes, and we all recall what a major success the Starship was.

Well I never claimed it was a sucess that's sure. I did a repair on a Starship several years ago that ran off the runway. The aero fairing that closedout the area behind the rear wing spar was cracked open. When I looked in there all I saw was huge cured "puddles" of resin where they had literally slopped it on joining the wing elements. It looked like something my 5 year old would have built..........

 

[Pesqueeb]

Its in the air!!!

 

[MMike]

Yep.....I'm getting a little verklempt..

 

[Westy]

My only regret is that MMike isn't close enough for it to crash into him. Here's to a successful flight and to a random asteroid hitting some Canadian Peckerwood.

 

[thom9719]

We went outside and watched it lift off. pretty cool to see it finally fly.

-KT

 

[MMike]

 

[Andyman_1970]

Yep.....I'm getting a little verklempt..

The Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.......discuss.........

 

[MMike]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/flatpages/video/seattletimesvideo.html?bcpid=30884189001&bctid=57446936001

 

[ohio]

I was hoping this was for spaceship two.

Still cool.

I can't wait until all of the interwebs composite experts are proven right and it disintegrates on landing, just like the carbon street luge they made with their buddy back in '92.

 

[MMike]

http://flightaware.com/live/flight_track_bigmap.rvt?ident=BOE1-1260891786-160-0&airports=KPAE+KBFI&height=340&width=400&departuretime=1260901740&arrivaltime=

 

[Westy]

http://flightaware.com/live/flight_track_bigmap.rvt?ident=BOE1-1260891786-160-0&airports=KPAE+KBFI&height=340&width=400&departuretime=1260901740&arrivaltime=

Pfft, no loops?

 

[stevew]

can it handle fatties?

 

[MMike]

No. No fat chicks


It has landed BTW

 

[ohio]

It has landed BTW

So how much for a souvenir shard? A million e-experts can't be wrong...

 

[Arkayne]

looks flexy

 

[Pesqueeb]

looks flexy

I wonder if root beer is a color option?

 

[Ciaran]

Does it have an onboard wok?

 

[dan-o]

can it handle fatties?

KLM's planes can.

 

[MMike]

I think it's safe to say that this is more screwed up than the A380.....

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2013713745_dreamliner19.html

 

[Silver]

I think it's safe to say that this is more screwed up than the A380.....

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2013713745_dreamliner19.html

Horizontal tails poorly built by Alenia in Italy are still being reworked. With the workmanship on the tails varying from one plane to the next, mechanics have to painstakingly customize the fixes plane by plane.

I'm personally shocked to hear of shoddy workmanship coming out of Italy. This has to be the first documented case of that, right?

 

[Secret Squirrel]

Horizontal tails poorly built by Alenia in Italy are still being reworked. With the workmanship on the tails varying from one plane to the next, mechanics have to painstakingly customize the fixes plane by plane.

I'm personally shocked to hear of shoddy workmanship coming out of Italy. This has to be the first documented case of that, right?

Mussolini says, "STFU!!!"


Oh wait....he might say that tomorrow...or the next day...he's on the Riviera damn it and can't be bothered.

 

[Silver]

Mussolini says, "STFU!!!"


Oh wait....he might say that tomorrow...or the next day...he's on the Riviera damn it and can't be bothered.

Little known story: The meathook they hung his body on was made in Italy, and only supported his weight for 30 seconds...

 

[Andyman_1970]

I wonder if a bunch of Hawkerbeechcraft engineers/managers went up to Seattle a few years ago on the 787 line.................what a cluster!!!

 

[rockofullr]

Do large airliners ever get delivered on time?

 

[Pesqueeb]

Do large airliners ever get delivered on time?

Well, no, not really. But Boeing is really raising the bar with this one.

 

[MikeD]

Little known story: The meathook they hung his body on was made in Italy, and only supported his weight for 30 seconds...

But it was a really stylish meathook, with awesome paint and a truly sweet exhaust note.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

But it was a really stylish meathook, with awesome paint and a truly sweet exhaust note.

And the moast shimz evar...

 

[IH8Rice]

Q3 2011 is right around the corner right?

surprisingly only 60 orders have been canceled and 850 are still on order.

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9KQPK300.htm

 

[valve bouncer]

Well smoke in the cabin as recently as November last year means a Q3 delivery to ANA is optimistic at best. Be good if Boeing could their sh*t together so I can go and see Partsy without doing a 4 airport shuffle.

 

[MikeD]

Well smoke in the cabin as recently as November last year means a Q3 delivery to ANA is optimistic at best. Be good if Boeing could their sh*t together so I can go and see Partsy without doing a 4 airport shuffle.

Where is that ****er now?

My bikes are actually willed to him. I went to Iraq and wrote up a hasty will and he was the closest guy I knew at the time who'd be able to take them of Steph's hands and see they were properly taken care of should I not come back. (ie, if I slipped and cracked my head in Kuwait airport, or as almost actually happened, I ended up at the bottom of the Tigris thanks to a ****headed dump truck driver...)

Anyhow, guess it's time to change that.

Oh, and I hope the flying Glock gets airborne soon.

 

[valve bouncer]

Where is that ****er now?

My bikes are actually willed to him. I went to Iraq and wrote up a hasty will and he was the closest guy I knew at the time who'd be able to take them of Steph's hands and see they were properly taken care of should I not come back. (ie, if I slipped and cracked my head in Kuwait airport, or as almost actually happened, I ended up at the bottom of the Tigris thanks to a ****headed dump truck driver...)

Anyhow, guess it's time to change that.

Oh, and I hope the flying Glock gets airborne soon.

Been on Skype a fair bit with him lately and he's well. His missus just got back from the sandbox last week so he's probably been on the nest. Hope you didn't tell him about the bikes or he might have come and tried to knock you off through the intake of unfeasible quantities of hard liquor.