Posted on 03/09/2005 5:57:58 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
777-200LR Worldliner
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Frist Flight Videos
March 9, 2005 777-200LR First Flight Highlights - 56k - 300k
March 9, 2005 777-200LR Taxi & Takeoff - 56k - 300k
March 7, 2005 777-200LR prepares for first flight - 56k - 300k
I did not make a typo. The Boeing website says "Frist", and I saved the webpage to my hard disk to document it. I also printed the page to a PDF.
Here are some related threads.
All Free Republic threads for the 777Yesterday's 777 threads:
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Air France Orders Four Additional Boeing 777-300ERs
Boeing 777-200LR, World's Longest-Range Airplane, Makes First Flight
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What, no barrel roll?
Except for the top deck on a 747-400, I love flying the 777 best. Even coach is tolerable. I like the two seat outside rows like on a 767. The three seat rows on the 727, 737, 747 and 757 are ghastly. You used to be able to get an aisle and a windows and if the plane wasn't packed you were good to go. Nowadays, no way, cattle car, mooo.
No Tex Johnson......
Doesn't mean they couldn't carry on the tradition.
On the other hand, knowing test pilots, how much you want to bet that *every* single Boeing airliner design since then *has* been rolled by a test pilot (in private)? They strike me as a conpany that would do that sort of thing...
Thank You For that!
Except for the top deck on a 747-400, I love flying the 777 best.
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Yep, me too -- I like the top deck on the 747-400 in biz class -- I do alot of flying to SE Asia -- via Narita or Hong Kong and it really makes a differnce. Biz class on the 777s that are flying now is not all that special. When I can, I fly the 400 class 747 -- still my favorite.
Open door for braggin' rights......learned to fly at 15 in 1960 from father/pilot - uncle/instructor and been flying ever since, too many planes to count, but the flying highlight of my life was crossing the pond from Heathrow to Dulles in 2000 in the cockpit of a British Airways 777.....sweetest plane to fly in in world bar none, and sweetest to fly the pilots tell me....cockpit is all LCD panels with all instruments on the LCD's......of course, it's almost silent in the front. Now, if I can just figure how to post jpg's.....
It's easier to post jpg's than it is to document the procedure.
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Yep, I think it's because it's cozy without 300 people behind you. I've been wondering if Boeing has plans on the drawing board to extend the top deck to compete with the scarebus a380.
The 777 is just a well engineered plane, quiet and roomy, I love flyin in them.
They aren't yet planning to make a 550 seat plane. They are however considering a modernization plus a minor stretch of the 747 to increase capacity to 450 seats. this would put the 747 Advanced in about halfway in capacity between the 777-300ER with 365 seats and the A380-800 with 555 seats. It would also deter Aibus from building a shrink veresion of the A380, because the such a version would be heavier than a 747 stretch.
That's cool. What's with only three windows on the left side of the upper deck in the large renderings?
That's the cargo version. It will be stretched a little more than the passenger version so that additional cargo pallets can be loaded. Also the range is being increased on the passenger version by over 1,000 statute miles.
Duh, next time I'll read the caption.
BTTT
Boeing 777-200LR, World's Longest Range Airplane, Makes First Flight
Capts. Suzanna Darcy-Hennemann, 777-200LR project pilot, and Frank Santoni, chief
777 program pilot, will be in command during the first flight of the 777-200LR
Worldliner, the longest range commercial airplane in the world. The airplane is
scheduled to take off today at 10 am Pacific. Marian Lockhart photo
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