Watch The 787-9 Tear Up The Skies Like A Fighter Jet (It's Really Something)

Flight Club ^ | 6/11/15 2:07pm | Tyler Rogoway

[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.

[IronJack]

I noticed he skidded one of those hard turns ...

As a side note, here's a question for any aero engineers: since most of the lift on a wing comes at the tip and the center, aside from stress factors, why are wings always tapered from the root to the tip, so that the surface that does the most lifting is the smallest? Wouldn't it make more sense to have a broader surface near the tip ... in other words, to have the narrowest part of the wing nearest the fuselage and the widest part as far outboard as possible?

Or am I completely off base?

[Excellence]

And an outside loop.

[AFreeBird]

Flew a Continental into a WV. Airport once. Don’t recall the airport, but they shaved off the top of a mountain and put a strip on it. Anyway, the pilot had to be Navy, the way he flew through the mountains in weather and then stuck the landing.

I truly enjoy professionals doin it right.

[redangus]

Looked like a modern version of the old Dakota. Graceful and easy to fly.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I don’t think the width of the wing plays that big a factor. Thickness and shape are more important. Carbon fiber was a game changer.

[IronJack]

It's the amount of air that flows over the wing and the pressure differential introduced that creates lift. If the overwing air has to travel much farther, then it will create a greater differential. Or so it seems to me.

And thickness plays a role, but not as much as you'd think, because the root of the wing is usually much thicker than the tip, but the tip provides far more lift.

[PUGACHEV]

The wings look oddly bird-like to me.

[Tony in Hawaii]

I double-dog dare ‘em

[SgtBob]

The tapered wingtip is the replacement for winglets found on many aircraft. The flat end wing produces more drag, and tip vortices than a winglet, or tapered wing. The tapered wing provides more lift, and less drag than the others...read fuel efficiency.

[Orbiter]

Lacking pax, baggage, cargo, etc., or accommodation for internationally mandated fuel reserves, the 787's dog and pony take (show) off served the purposes of delighting wingnuts and wowing the aero-herded.

Roger out.

[mabarker1]

RIP Tex

If He was still with us there is NO WAY Boeing would let Him get in the Cockpit;)