Posted on 06/12/2015 11:47:49 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
Boeing is preparing to make a big splash with its stretched Dreamliner at the Paris Air Show this year. How do they plan on doing this? The old school way, by putting the 300,000 pound beast through its paces in front of a huge crowd, max performing the carbon fiber jet like it was an F-15, as seen in the video below:
There is an all-out war for orders between Boeing’s 787 and Airbus’s A350. Paris gives Boeing a chance to seal some deals right in Airbus’s backyard. Also of interest is the airline that will be emblazoned across the 787-9’s fuselage during the display.
Vietnam is increasingly becoming a player on the world stage, with a growing export economy and tightening relations with the U.S. As a result, the nation is now making its tender as an international travel and business destination, one that is not afraid to embrace the latest technology. This, along with being an early 787-9 customer, will bring the Vietnam “brand” to show center on a world stage.
If you are not checking airline ticket prices to the city of lights, baguettes and rude cabbies at this very moment after seeing this awesome video then you must have other plans. Not to worry, Flight Club will update you on the key aerial happening in the skies over Paris next week as the big show gets underway.
Single flight transatlantic to Gatwick on Norwegian Air. For the passengers it was good with all of the modern bells&whistles, individual displays, USB power etc. Very quiet in comparison to its older brethren and other manufacturers. Caught a brief glimpse on boarding of the glass cockpit (90%+ electronic) - impressive!
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Remember doing it a couple of times...Frontier and AirCal, FUN!(for those of us who knew SNA Dep. procedures anyway)
An interested fact is that each blade on the fan produces the equivalent of 800hp.
Yeah... If you have to return to the field, What does the GCA do when you’ve never left the airport grounds after takeoff?
Take off, go vertical, roll-over with an Immelmann turn to reverse direction, then dive and flatten out back at the runway you started over? 8<)
Or just a simple loop?
This was either in 1997 or 1999, as my wife at the time was pregnant. I’m leaning towards 1999 because I think we had moved back to Delaware at the time.
No passengers, No cargo and far less than a full load of fuel.
Some video trickery involved as well.
Still pretty cool — except for the whole “VietNam Airlines” thing. Made me hope it would stall out and auger down into a fireball.
Ericson skycrane holds the worlds record to 10k, for choppers.
The couple times I’ve flown with EA the pilots’ military background showed. They landed like they were trying to stick the gear ten feet deep in the tarmac. Passengers? What f#@+ing passengers.
I was there for that event, too. I thought the most impressive thing about that plane was how silent it was until it had gone past.
By which time it would have been, of course, too late to care.
Unfortunately, it sat on the tarmac for 2 weeks while A/C repair parts were flown in and the 2nd B1 had to be delivered to the wing that was going to fly it, but still...
Interesting! Got a link to the story?
The way that thing took off I was almost expecting a loop the loop.
But takeoff is the most dramatic. Back in my earlier days, I used to setup at the end of a runway at Logan Airport (actually over on Winthrop side) in a lawn chair and a cooler of beer and just watch the airplanes lift off and travel directly over my head. This was back in the pre 9/11 days when you could do something like that and not be seen as suspicious. However, you do get seen as being a bit of an odd duck. But back in those days, there was nothing wrong with being a little bit odd.
Seeing a huge jetliner that weighs hundreds of thousands of pounds just take off into the sky - it never fails to amaze me. I weigh well under 300 pounds and I can't fly worth a damn.
Wow
Exactly! Full throttle steep climbs, corkscrew descents. Fun to watch, don’t want to be in the thing.
It's not that hard to get an introductory lesson and it's a lot of fun.
Boeing was pretty straightforward about telling people it wasn’t as steep as it seemed, but the camera angle made it look far steeper. They also said there wasn’t a full load of fuel, etc. But they did say what they did was completely within the flight parameters.
I will say, if you ever saw the video of Air Force One taking off from Florida on 9/11, that plane has some serious climb capability for a plane that big. That one looked to me like it was doing an EXTREMELY steep and fast climb out.
I have. First class all the way from Melbourne to LA. Sweet.
About 250 tons
I don't think that's the same Vietnam Airlines that I took from Saigon to Bangkok with a stopover at Phom Penh back in 1962.
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