Posted on 02/15/2005 7:12:06 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
Yikes! That is one big ass jet engine! Can this thing fly with only one engine if the other fails?
9500 miles, wow
Yes. . .single engine.
I flew on a 777 from Shanghai China to Bejing. It is one sweet plane. The engines are huge. It is a fly-by-wire plane. It's a little smaller than a 747.
wonderful. another boeing airplane that has too small, over head luggage compartments and rock hard seats (I fly 150,000 miles + annually. I hate Boeing jets from a passenger's stand point)
PING ;-)
You may like Air Bus A-340 or A-310
With that wide of a "mouth", you sure wouldn't want to scare up any sea gulls during take off!
I boarded a Thai Airways 777 in Bangkok where they drive you to the jet in a bus and you board up a set of stairs.....OMG that is a huge engine!
PING, friend
the seats have NOTHING to do with boeing... they are chosen by the Airline
How was the noise level?
Hey man, blame the airline... not Boeing... if the airline wanted it fitted with 13 seats, and 13 beds, 12 crap tables and the interior from a Rolls Royce, it could be done. Boeing does the airframe, PERIOD... airlines spec the interior.
I fly as much as you... my favorite is still the L-1011... quiet, no clanging in the floor boards as in the DC-10 deriviatives.
JMHO
Jim
Yes! It will be rated to fly up to 207 minutes on one engine under Extended Twin OPerationS rules (ETOPS). The previous 777s were rated for 180 minutes of ETOPS which was the first time a new airplane was rated for ETOPS. All previous ETOPS rated airplanes had been in service for several years before being allowed to operate under ETOPS rules. Even then the first planes were only allowed to operate a maximum of 120 minutes of ETOPS.
The 777-200LR and the 777-300ER (Extended Range) were launched in February 2000 by Boeing and GE Aircraft Engines
Only GE's are used on the 777-300ER and 777-200LR.
I'm not sure about the -200LR, but I think the current -200 and -300 models come with either GEs or Rolls Royce Trent engines, it's the ordering airline's choice.
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