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Tour The Boeing Factory And Enter The Largest Building In The World
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We'll admit, today's featured factory tour may be more of our dream than yours. After all, you can ride in airplanes constantly without needing to know where they, so to speak, come from; it's that old saw about watching the sausage get made. But we've always wanted to go to the Future of Flight, and we envy the lucky travel writers who have already been to Boeing's pricey but exciting factory tour.
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Boeing 787 Sharpening Number 2 Pencils For Its Final Tests
Update 06/23: Boeing has postponed the test flight of the Dreamliner on account of the need to reinforce an area. Uh oh.
June 28 is going to be a huge day for Boeing and its network of suppliers, not to mention for air travelers hoping for more pleasant flights. After loads of testing this week, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner will hopefully take to the skies for its first test flight. Even if everything goes well, it will still be a while before we ride in the back with our iPhones set to airplane mode—but this is still pretty exciting.
Before the flight test, the plane will go through a final phase of ground testing known as the final gauntlet. For 48 hours, the plane will be pushed to its limits to further address issues that were found during factory testing and the intermediate gauntlet. This should start sometime today, and will be followed by a couple days of analysis. Sounds like the break room coffee pot will be working overtime as the engineers try to figure everything out.
If the plane does well on the ground, it will soon be taxiing under its own power as it takes its Rolls Royce Trent 1000 engines for a spin. Tempting as it might be to just rip it down the runway, Boeing still has to be extra careful before putting the pedal to the medal. If everything goes according to plan, then a five-and-a-half hour test flight will take place on Sunday.
We’ll go ahead and assume that a successful test flight will be followed by a celebratory kegger on the assembly line.
Related Stories: [Photo: Wikimedia]
· Boeing Has Another Full Week Of 787 Tests [Aviation Week]
· Delta Dumps Dreamliner Because It's Sick Of Waiting [Jaunted]
· Airline News coverage [Jaunted]
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Boeing Pushes Back Dreamliner Deliveries Yet Again
We're about to stop handicapping the odds that Boeing will ever get these 787s built: A spokeswoman told aviation blog FleetBuzz that thanks to a crippling machinists strike, the Dreamliner won't be making its first flight before the end of 2008 as previously planned. That means it's almost certain that deliveries to carriers like ANA and Japan Airlines won't happen until 2010.
Here's what Boeing had to say:
First flight of the 787 Dreamliner will not be accomplished in the fourth quarter of 2008. The timeframe for first flight has not been established and will be based on the strike recovery assessment. The program is working to determine a new program schedule that will be announced when it is finalized.
Adding to the trouble are newly discovered quality control issues with fasteners, the variety of dodads that hold the plane together. Needless to say, you can't make test flights when you're worried that the plane isn't bolted together right!
Related Stories:
· Boeing 787 First Flight Delayed [FleetBuzz]
· Boeing 787 Schedule Pushed Back Again [USA Today]
· Could the Dreamliner Be Flying by 2009? [Jaunted]
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Could the Dreamliner Be Flying by 2009?
A tentative deal has been made between Boeing and its machinists union, which could end the nearly two-month-long strike that's halted production at its Everett, Washington factory. It's likely that the union will vote to approve the deal, which promises a 15 percent raise over four years and protects union jobs.
Once a deal is done, workers can get back to rolling out airplanes, in particular the 777, which new airline V Australia is anxiously awaiting after pushing back its launch date because of the strike. Meanwhile, ANA, the launch customer for the much-anticipated 787, was planning for deliveries this winter, but after countless delays already, that seems about as likely as Ted Stevens turning down a Bridge to Nowhere.
Boeing currently says the fuel efficient Dreamliner will debut by the end of 2009, but at least one supplier says 2010 is more likely. And that's just the first plane: More than 900 have been ordered, and the company will only be able to make a few 787s a month until at least 2012.
Related Stories:
· Tentative Deal Reached in Boeing Strike [Seattle P-I]
· Goodrich Says Boeing's 787 May Be Delayed [Bloomberg]
· Boeing Says More Delays Probable [Reuters]
· Boeing coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: Wikipedia]
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Adventures of Link: Boeing 787 Takes Seattle
The revolution will be at 35,000 feet, if Boeing Dreamliner has anything to say about it. While we are taking a wait-for-the-August-test-flights approach to this whole 787 craze, there were plenty of airlines that thought Boeing's big bird and pony show was worth a multi-million dollar airplane order check.
Qantas, Air New Zealand, Virgin Atlantic, and All Nippon Airways, who will bet the first to offer 787 commercial service in May 2008 all bought what Boeing was selling.
The plane seats up to 330 passengers and is capable of flying long-haul routes using up to 20% less fuel.
Here is what the web thought of McDreamliner:
· Photos of 787 [MSNBC]
· Brokaw Master of Ceremonies, Yamamoto Biggest Applause [FT]
· Dreamliner is Evolutionary Rather Than Revolutionary [Chicago Tribune]
· Qantas A Confirmed Buyer [Reueters]
· Dreamliner Videos Galore [Technorati]
[Photo: seattlec2]
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Boeing Dreamliner Makes Emperor Palpatine Style Entrance
Yesterday, on 7.8.07, Boening's new 787 Dreamliner debuted in Everett Washington in a scene that reminded us of the Emperor's arrival on the Death Star at the beginning of Return of the Jedi. Point being, it was definitely an odd scene. Don't believe us? Just watch the video above.
To date, Boeing has won 677 order for the 787, on deliveries through 2015. Air Berlin, Kuwait Airways, and All Nippon Airways are amongst the buyers.
The 787, Boeing's first all-new jet since airlines started flying the 777 in 1995, will be the world's first large commercial airplane made mostly of carbon-fiber composites, which are lighter, heftier, and don't rust as easily--sounds fair enough. .
The Dreamliner is scheduled to enter service in the spring of 2008 and the first test flights will take place in late August or early September of this year.
Stay Tuned.
Related Stories:
· Dreamliner Coverage [Jaunted]
· Dreamliner Official Site [Jaunted]
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Google Earth Views: Roof For Sale
This week Google Earth achieves what the naked eye never could--it makes Everett Massachusetts look good to advertisers.
You see, depending on who you speak with, Google Earth has either created a niche rooftop ads industry, or Google Earth has nothing to do with this phenomenon.
The nay-sayers will tell you Everett is a suburb just west of Logan airport, and the possibility of commercial flyovers make this a prime spot for rooftop ads. However, we are here to tell you we think applications like Google Earth are what really gets advertisers like Target, and businesses like Roofads, interested in painting logos on their rooftops.
Either way, Google Sightseeing has a bunch of rooftop satellite examples to scroll through. Enjoy.
Here is the Target in Everett, MA from above for your immediate viewing pleasure.
Related Stories:
· Google Earth Views Coverage [Jaunted]
