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Lizol, do you know if the last 787 will be an 8 or a 9? It would be neat to have a 9.
I'm glad that LOT chose the 787, as airbus not only has a giant mess with their production, but maintenance-wise the 787 will be very good. Instead of using only book maintenance manuals(Boeing's are good anyways), there will be parts on computer, which you can move around to look at (I guess a new sort of illustrated parts catalogue). You can even go inside parts and assemblies on the computer. It is really neat. The only thing that I wonder about is how well the composites in the fuselage will perform. It will be interesting to see what kind of repairs are called out in the maintenance manual when someone drops a screwdriver from high up onto a section of the fuselage.

I hope that someday I get to go to Boeing's production plant, and see them winding the sections of fuselage, and putting them into the giant autoclave.