Boeing 787: The Plastic Plane
03-11-2007, 09:43 AM
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Boeing 787: The Plastic Plane
Here is an interesting article in today's Seattle Times about building the 787 at Boeing's Fredrickson plant.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...boeing111.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...boeing111.html
03-16-2007, 02:24 PM
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Good article, I'll complain to my local Starbucks for not having the PI available for me to read. They only seem to have the Tacoma paper laying around 
In case anyone missed it, one of the local TV stations did a pretty good overview of the jet's development:
http://airlinepilotcentral.com/web_v...070211192.html
In case anyone missed it, one of the local TV stations did a pretty good overview of the jet's development:
http://airlinepilotcentral.com/web_v...070211192.html
03-16-2007, 03:01 PM
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I see boeing is still going with this plastics idea. Last time they tried it was on the F35 competition..... needless to say the idea failed horribly. And they found this out in the middle of production, it was a huge setback and they eventualy abandoned the idea.
03-18-2007, 09:00 AM
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No Seattle Times or PI at your Starbucks!?! Try Tulley's.
Nice video from KING5. There is something very sexy about Robert Mak, don't you think?
I've met him, you know, and he just exudes intelligence.
Anyway, the paper had this interesting article about ILFC's Udvar-Hazy.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...61_hazy18.html
Nice video from KING5. There is something very sexy about Robert Mak, don't you think?
I've met him, you know, and he just exudes intelligence. Anyway, the paper had this interesting article about ILFC's Udvar-Hazy.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...61_hazy18.html
03-18-2007, 09:16 AM
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Linebacker,
The SonicCruiser was a "failed" program too but things they learned there have been applied and given notable improvements. Raytheon failed with the Starship yet lessons learned and technologies developed have been used to build the successfull Premier. The comet was a failure, but lessons learned there were applied to the 707, DC-8 and others.
I think the 787 will be a successful aircraft. Boeing and Airbus have maximized everything they can on the current generation of aircraft without a radical leap forward.
The SonicCruiser was a "failed" program too but things they learned there have been applied and given notable improvements. Raytheon failed with the Starship yet lessons learned and technologies developed have been used to build the successfull Premier. The comet was a failure, but lessons learned there were applied to the 707, DC-8 and others.
I think the 787 will be a successful aircraft. Boeing and Airbus have maximized everything they can on the current generation of aircraft without a radical leap forward.
03-19-2007, 07:52 PM
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Boeing 787 to rollout 7/8/07
I didn't want to start another thread, so here is an excerpted article.
Only a couple of hours before the two-year-late Airbus A380 landed in the United States for the first time Monday, The Boeing Co. underscored that its new jetliner, the 787 Dreamliner, remains on schedule.
"We are doing what we do best at Boeing ... make sure we deliver on the commitments we made to our customers," Scott Carson, chief executive of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, told reporters and industry analysts during a teleconference to update them on the 787.
Final assembly of the first plane will begin in May at the company's Everett plant, where hundreds of additional mechanics have been hired and trained as part of a contingency plan to make sure the Dreamliner is not late.
"A lot of people are working very, very hard around the world to make sure this airplane gets to market on time," said Mike Bair, vice president of the 787 program.
Carson and Bair said key remaining milestones have not changed -- rollout of the first plane is on track for July 8 (7/8/07), the first flight in late August and the first delivery to All Nippon Airways of Japan in May 2008.
Meanwhile, market demand for the 787 is so strong that a fourth large cargo freighter, known as the Dreamlifter, will be needed to haul the large composite fuselage barrels and wings to the Everett plant for final assembly, Bair said.
Only a couple of hours before the two-year-late Airbus A380 landed in the United States for the first time Monday, The Boeing Co. underscored that its new jetliner, the 787 Dreamliner, remains on schedule.
"We are doing what we do best at Boeing ... make sure we deliver on the commitments we made to our customers," Scott Carson, chief executive of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, told reporters and industry analysts during a teleconference to update them on the 787.
Final assembly of the first plane will begin in May at the company's Everett plant, where hundreds of additional mechanics have been hired and trained as part of a contingency plan to make sure the Dreamliner is not late.
"A lot of people are working very, very hard around the world to make sure this airplane gets to market on time," said Mike Bair, vice president of the 787 program.
Carson and Bair said key remaining milestones have not changed -- rollout of the first plane is on track for July 8 (7/8/07), the first flight in late August and the first delivery to All Nippon Airways of Japan in May 2008.
Meanwhile, market demand for the 787 is so strong that a fourth large cargo freighter, known as the Dreamlifter, will be needed to haul the large composite fuselage barrels and wings to the Everett plant for final assembly, Bair said.
05-11-2007, 07:52 AM
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Still don't want to start a new thread, but here is the latest assembly line news from Everett. Things are still on track for 7/8/07. Be there or be square!
The front and rear sections of the first 787 arrived in Everett early this morning.
The two massive sections landed at Paine Field aboard one of Boeing's fat Dreamlifter superfreighters and were unloaded into the Boeing plant.
The delivery included the 40-foot-long nose-and-forward fuselage section built by Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, Kan. as well as the 38-foot-long rear fuselage made by Vought in Charleston, S.C.
The first Dreamlifter delivery of a major 787 part was April 24, when Boeing brought the horizontal tail from Italy.
Today's big parts delivery means that Everett is awaiting only the mid-section of the first 787: the joined central fuselage from Global Aeronautica in Charleston and the wings from Mitsubishi in Japan.
Boeing mechanics in Everett must assemble all the pieces for a scheduled roll-out of the first airplane on July 8.
The front and rear sections of the first 787 arrived in Everett early this morning.
The two massive sections landed at Paine Field aboard one of Boeing's fat Dreamlifter superfreighters and were unloaded into the Boeing plant.
The delivery included the 40-foot-long nose-and-forward fuselage section built by Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, Kan. as well as the 38-foot-long rear fuselage made by Vought in Charleston, S.C.
The first Dreamlifter delivery of a major 787 part was April 24, when Boeing brought the horizontal tail from Italy.
Today's big parts delivery means that Everett is awaiting only the mid-section of the first 787: the joined central fuselage from Global Aeronautica in Charleston and the wings from Mitsubishi in Japan.
Boeing mechanics in Everett must assemble all the pieces for a scheduled roll-out of the first airplane on July 8.
05-11-2007, 03:18 PM
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