Have you heard enough about Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner? Hopefully not, because the fancy schmancy new airplane hasn't even been delivered to its first airline yet. That is, until this upcoming Monday it hasn't.

That's right—Monday marks the official delivery of the 787 to All Nippon Airways, an international airline based in Japan and an airline champing at the bit with excitement over the occasion. They'll get the keys to the bird, itself sporting some pretty flashy new livery—check out a rendering of that here. Needless to say, this whole event is a huge deal for travel, aviation, business, technology and the good ol' US of A, and we'll be there for it all.

Landing in Seattle bright and early Sunday morning (after some 20-ish hours of flying from Southeast Asia), we'll be sharing our experiences at Boeing facilities, on the tarmac and in the briefing rooms as much as humanly (and technically) possible. Here's how to follow along for all our hot and bothered 787 excitement: ]]> JetSetCD 2011-09-23T18:43:23-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/8/8/142657/4433

We've spent the last few years tracking how private space tourism is becoming a capital-T Thing—and of course now that the space shuttle program is dead, private space flight is for better or worse the only game in town.

You might also remember a post from last year about commercial space travel company Space Adventures, which inked a deal with Boeing for vehicles that could be shot into low-earth orbit. We speculated at the time that the world was still many years from regular launches, both because it takes time to build spaceships and because we still don't really have the infrastructure to launch them.

All of that aside, we're certainly getting closer. There are now contests springing up promising to send lucky winners into space, with the latest coming from the team behind the Seattle Space Needle. The iconic tourist attraction was built for the 1962 World's Fair and, as its 50th anniversary celebration approaches, organizers want to recapture some of that futuristic magic. ]]> Omri 2011-08-08T15:19:38-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/1/18/121156/438

This week, Twilight fans will get another chance to meet their favorite cast members, and each other, as the 2011 Twilight Saga Fan Convention Tour kicks off this weekend in Seattle.

This weekend's Twilight Con will include appearances by BooBoo Stewart and Julia Jones, who play Seth and Leah Clearwater in the films. Because the final two movies, Breaking Dawn I & II, are still filming many of the first conventions may not have a full roster of celebs but by this summer, the conventions' should be brimming with Twilight stars! There may even be a few appearances by Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart or Taylor Lautner, who all showed up at last year's L.A. convention. ]]> cmb 2011-01-18T15:12:45-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/1/3/155831/4934 As you might have guessed from our preview last week, we were all up in and around the all-new interiors on the first of Air New Zealand’s five 777-300ER’s last week, when we hopped aboard the delivery flight from Seattle to Los Angeles. Of course our first order of business was to cuddle up in the new SkyCouch.

Here’s a quick video we asked one of the friendly flight attendants to make showing us how to set up the SkyCouch for slumber, and then we’ll fill you in on our experience test-napping it during the long-haul flight from Los Angeles to Auckland...
]]> EricRosen 2011-01-04T09:31:40-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2010/12/22/143513/55 Earlier this week, we took a pre-holiday jaunt up to Seattle for a quickie tour of the Boeing factory, including visits to the 777 and 787 production lines, with the final goal being a tete-a-tete with Air New Zealand’s new SkyCouch-equipped 777-300ERs.

At their flagship facility in Everett, Washington, just outside Seattle, we heard about the company’s strategic planning for the future and it’s twin-pronged strategy of promoting the 777 and 787 as complementary components of an airline’s service. As the giant planes ever so slowly inched along on their assembly lines, we learned that although Boeing is only turning out 5 777s monthly right now, the plan is to increase productivity to 8.3 a month by 2013, for a grand total of 100 a year.

And then we were off to visit the big guns: the 787 Dreamliner and Air NZ's new baby, a shiny 777-300ER.]]> EricRosen 2010-12-24T10:48:35-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2010/12/14/105955/17

Christmas just wouldn't be the same without a marathon of the classic A Christmas Story. If nothing else, the movie taught an entire generation that sticking your tongue on a frozen flagpole isn't the best idea.

Now the movie has been turned into a musical for the stage, being executive produced by none other than Ralphie himself, Peter Billingsley. A Christmas Story: The Musical! includes an original score by Broadway composers Benj Paske and Justin Paul which Billingsley hopes will help the show become as popular as the original film. ]]> cmb 2010-12-14T12:06:53-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2010/12/6/12059/1858

A new museum exhibition opening next year will bring the magic of Pandora to Seattle. Avatar: The Exhibition, which features artifacts, props and costumes from the blockbuster movie, will debut at Seattle's Science Fiction Museum on June 4, 2011 and will run through September 3, 2012.

According to Avatar director James Cameron, "Fans will be able to see in-person the workmanship behind the film, whether it's how scenes are captured; or how a Na'vi costume was built first as a real world garment then produced digitally." ]]> cmb 2010-12-06T16:45:49-05:00 Search Jaunted string http://www.jaunted.com/search/