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1 posted on 04/01/2007 9:04:15 AM PDT by llevrok

What day is it today anyways?

2 posted on 04/01/2007 9:06:09 AM PDT by DouglasKC

3 posted on 04/01/2007 9:07:01 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy

My bad title spelling: Boeing

4 posted on 04/01/2007 9:08:53 AM PDT by llevrok (Becoming a FredHead, little at a time.)

If you drive buy the Boeing plant in Everett, Wa, you can see this thing out on the tarmac. It's beautiful.

5 posted on 04/01/2007 9:09:16 AM PDT by SoldierMedic (Rowan Walter, 23 Feb 2007)

6 posted on 04/01/2007 9:10:35 AM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)

To: Paleo Conservative

7 posted on 04/01/2007 9:13:35 AM PDT by faq

Judging by the date in your pic, this joke is fairly old, but still funny.

8 posted on 04/01/2007 9:19:32 AM PDT by Fierce Allegiance (There are 2 types of Rudy fans - the uninformed or anti-conservative TROLLS who do not belong on FR)

This design would make it impossible for someone to reach the pilots on the other side.

9 posted on 04/01/2007 9:20:02 AM PDT by ThomasThomas (Random thoughts can be rational.)

Airbus has their own newer version.

While most of the the spotlight on Airbus recently has been focused on the plight of the planemaker's German and French operations and employees, work behind the scenes has focused on the development of a new triple-deck A380 option that would seat 1,023 people in an all-economy class configuration.
Airbus has already received EASA and FAA certification for its 1,023-seat A380D, which is very novel, aviation wise, for its third deck evacuation plan.
The latest A380 variant features 24 emergency door exits, 10 on the main deck, six on the second deck, and eight on the third deck, with three separate and independent evacuations

10 posted on 04/01/2007 9:33:09 AM PDT by ThomasThomas (Random thoughts can be rational.)

To: llevrok; COEXERJ145; RayChuang88; phantomworker

The first bird is also a 'combi' configuration in which one side is configured to carry passengers and the other strictly for freight and those passengers too cheap to pay the extra $25 to check a bag.

Don't you think that there would be center of gravity problems if freight is fully loaded on one side and there are no passengers on the other?

The wings would be awfully heavily loaded. This configuration has two 747's using just a little more than one set of wings. Wouldn't you have to take up lots of cargo space with fuel tanks. If you really needed the capacity of two 747's woulnd't it be better just to have two 747's? Only a handful of routes in the world require two or more 747's to take off within minutes of each other. How would you get the airbridge to the port side of the starboard fuselage? Wouldn't the plane's wingspan be too wide to park the plane in an 80 meter by 80 meter space? With the engines spaced so wide apart, wouldn't it be restricted to a small list of airports with taxiways and runways widended and separated further apart for the A380?

If Boeing were really going to announce this, don't you think they'd use their current Dreamliner livery rather than their 1988 house livery for testing the 747-400? What king of fools does Areo-News Network think we are?

11 posted on 04/01/2007 9:48:54 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative

12 posted on 04/01/2007 11:30:04 AM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Bush Derangement Syndrome Has Reached Pandemic Levels on Free Republic.)

LOL... it's crazy but it just might work!!!

Hmmm... what's todays date?

13 posted on 04/01/2007 1:20:20 PM PDT by protest1

To: llevrok; genefromjersey

The New Tupolev Tu-1A2B. Western intelligence has dubbed it "Flying Eggroll."

16 posted on 04/02/2007 7:05:35 AM PDT by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)

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