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Boeing Unveils New, High-Tech Airliner
V0A ^ | 08 July 2007

Posted on 07/09/2007 9:40:53 AM PDT by 3AngelaD

The U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing has unveiled its latest airliner model with great fanfare, and great focus on technological advances in its construction. At a ceremony at a company hangar in the state of Washington Sunday afternoon, some 15,000 guests saw Boeing's 787 Dreamliner for the first time.

Boeing says the new airliner will use 20 percent less fuel than other similarly sized planes because of the carbon composite material used in its airframe. An airplane made of composites weighs less than a metal plane, and requires less fuel to do the same job. The 787 has not yet left the ground. It is expected to make its first flight later this year - and to go into airline service next year.

Boeing, which is in competition with the European manufacturer Airbus, already has 677 orders for the Dreamliner. The company says the Dreamliner is the company's most successful new model to date.

The 787 is designed to make long-haul flights with a seating capacity between 210 and 330.


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: 787; 7e7; aerospace; airbus; aviation; boeing; composites; engineering; technology
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To: InterceptPoint

The wings look organic to me.


21 posted on 07/09/2007 11:30:53 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: BallyBill

Speaking of wing flapping, some engineers at Boeing believe you could bend the wings far enough that you could touch the wingtips together above the fuselage without breaking the wings.

I wouldn’t want to see that on any plane I was in, though. :)


22 posted on 07/09/2007 11:47:04 AM PDT by eraser2005
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To: InterceptPoint

Please tell me how to post a pic. Not getting any clues from the help page.

Thanks!


23 posted on 07/09/2007 12:46:09 PM PDT by clippedwing
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To: clippedwing

Carbon fiber already makes up part of the 777 that has already been flying. Horizontal/Vertical tail, about 9-10% of the total 777 gross weight


24 posted on 07/09/2007 12:53:44 PM PDT by BubbaJunebug
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To: BubbaJunebug
Carbon fiber already makes up part of the 777 that has already been flying.

Yes and I beleive they recently did the first 10+ year inspection of a 777, completely disassembled, and found the carbon composites including floor supports to all be in pristine condition.

25 posted on 07/09/2007 3:14:48 PM PDT by Jorge
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To: InterceptPoint

The blended winglets give the wings a graceful look.


26 posted on 07/09/2007 3:17:40 PM PDT by null and void (We can oil drill through miles of rock under sea water, drilling thru inches of glass is a snap...)
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To: 3AngelaD; Dead Dog

I wouldn’t tease him.

He looks like he’s in a vowel mood...


27 posted on 07/09/2007 3:19:08 PM PDT by null and void (We can oil drill through miles of rock under sea water, drilling thru inches of glass is a snap...)
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To: clippedwing
Please tell me how to post a pic. Not getting any clues from the help page.

Type it like this:
<img src="http://www.a_web_host.com/rest_of_path/imagename.jpg">

28 posted on 07/09/2007 3:19:42 PM PDT by Yossarian (Everyday, somewhere on the globe, somebody is pushing the frontier of stupidity...)
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To: clippedwing
Please tell me how to post a pic. Not getting any clues from the help page.

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29 posted on 07/09/2007 3:24:29 PM PDT by null and void (We can oil drill through miles of rock under sea water, drilling thru inches of glass is a snap...)
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To: clippedwing
Please tell me how to post a pic. Not getting any clues from the help page.

You just need to know a little HTML. Here is the code:

img src="www.someplaceontheInternet.com/somepicture.jpg"

You need to add a < in front of img and a > after .jpg" to make it work. I had to leave them off here to get the code to print out as text.

Note that the picture has to be on the Internet someplace and not on your PC. If you find a photo on some website that you want to post all you have to do is right click on it and look at it's properties and that will be the URL you need to put inside the quotes. This will simply put a link to the photo inside your post and it will show up OK. This is cheating, of course, because you are technically using someone else's photo or art but the practice is pretty common. If you want to use your own photos then you have to upload them to one of the photo sharing websites first.

30 posted on 07/09/2007 3:48:11 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: ol' hoghead

That’s not much in comparison to a whole composite plane I’d say.


31 posted on 07/09/2007 11:49:10 PM PDT by Rummenigge (there's people willing to blow out the light because it casts a shadow)
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To: InterceptPoint; 3AngelaD; Moonman62
Thin wings!


Boeing workers admire the 787 Dreamliner during its debut Sunday in Everett.
A lot of work remains to get the new jet off the ground, including the installation
of many systems that weren't on board Sunday. ...(Charles Conklin photo)


Grant M. Haller/Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Grant M. Haller/Seattle Post-Intelligencer

More at the P I Click the 'see photos ...' link.

32 posted on 07/10/2007 1:46:37 AM PDT by skeptoid (AA, UE, MBS (with clusters))
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To: Rummenigge
That’s not much in comparison to a whole composite plane I’d say.

It was the state of the art at the time.

33 posted on 07/10/2007 4:18:18 AM PDT by ol' hoghead (He is not here; for he is risen.)
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To: ol' hoghead

Sure - I remember that everyone said - now that’s the death of good ol’ metal constructions.

And agains deadsaid lived longer then expected.

It’s not so easy to design a whole aircraft in carbon. Maintainability is a key issue. Seems like boeing leaped a long distance - did they take a risk ? No leap without a risk.


34 posted on 07/10/2007 4:36:16 AM PDT by Rummenigge (there's people willing to blow out the light because it casts a shadow)
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