Martin Henare Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Sort of.... http://blog.seattlepi.com/airlinereporter/archives/188081.asp?from=blog_last3 High speed take off roll with nose off the ground. Boeing have officially announced the first flight to be on 15 December at 10am http://www.boeing.com/ Its long time coming, but this is the most revolutionary aircraft to have been build in the last few decades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 450 Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 The sound when reverse thrust is activated is soo cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Routley Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Thanks Marty ... this is one passenger aircraft that I am seriously excited about the development of. Revolutionary? .... Absolutely! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spirit Flyer_old Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Marty, You almost gave me a heart attack! I saw the thread title and thought "OH NO, I MISSED IT!" Of course, the "sort of" settled me back down. Thanks for the cool link. I plan on watching it live through the boeing site on Tuesday (I hope). Does anyone have any information about doing that? Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Henare Posted December 13, 2009 Author Share Posted December 13, 2009 I couldnt resist talking it up a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macca22au Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Yes but didn't Boeing laugh itself silly when the A380 was delayed with the wire harness problem, and now they are two years behind. However from the simmers point of view the flight deck will get simpler and simpler: these aircraft are too expensive to run to leave it to human pilots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Henare Posted December 13, 2009 Author Share Posted December 13, 2009 Actually i think Boeing were very gracious regarding the A380 delays. Thus Airbus have also been pretty quiet about 787 delays. They have yet to even start building the A350. The Boeing fan club however went a bit crazy as has the Airbus fan club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Emms Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 An interesting vid Thank you for showing this. cheers Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spud Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Good video of high speed taxi tests. I was fortunate to see the 777 first flight years ago while on vacation to WA. My brother-in-law worked for Boeing (since retired) as a quality control inspector on new 747's so we got excellent viewpoint at Paine field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CirrusTop Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 God those thrust reverser's sound amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skypilot Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 What is the do-dad trailing behind from the top tail fin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Henare Posted December 14, 2009 Author Share Posted December 14, 2009 What is the do-dad trailing behind from the top tail fin? Its a small paracute used for testing. Test flights often involve all many of bits and pieces added here and there to they can make measurements and us as a visual indicator or airflow and the like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swraymac Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 nice vid. so what is the 787 competing with? sean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Harris Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 so what is the 787 competing with? A350 I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Henare Posted December 14, 2009 Author Share Posted December 14, 2009 The 787 replaces the 767, and fits in the gap between 737-900/A321 and 777/A340 so initially "competes" with A330s. But in the long term the alternative will be the A350 XWB which will replace the A330 and A340. the XWB will efectively compete with 787 and 777. Four engine aircraft will be the territory of only the very large aircarft A380 and 747-8 (which is expected to fly around Dec 20ish)The extra weight and maintenance of 4 engines has been easily overcome with the power and reliablility of modern engine design. So expectthe vast majority of airliners to be twins from now on So the A vs B competition will be B737-600/700/800/900 vs A319/320/321 Until both develop there next gen single aisle aircraft in about 2020 B787-8/9/3 vs A350-800/900/1000 B777 vs A350-1000 B747-8 vs A380 An intereesting piece of info a light 777 can accelerate 0-60 mph in under 6 seconds. Most cars can't do that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 What is the do-dad trailing behind from the top tail fin? Its a small paracute used for testing. Test flights often involve all many of bits and pieces added here and there to they can make measurements and us as a visual indicator or airflow and the like. that is a training cone for static pressure measurements. It is extending in flight to trail outside of the wake of the aircraft to get an undisturbed static pressure measurement free from local position effects that you would have from static pressure measurements on the airframe (these you will see on both sides of the fuselage around the nose under the cockpit area, pilot / copilot & standby ). You calibrate your air data system using these trailing cone measurements. It is absolutely essentially for performance measurements - without such instrumentation you cannot accurately assess the static pressure and so neither altitude, speed (mach) etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Boyte Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 First Flight now LIVE! http://787firstflight.newairplane.com/ffindex.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurdy Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 isnt it tomorrow morning our time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Henare Posted December 15, 2009 Author Share Posted December 15, 2009 Err yes 10am BFI time is 1800 GMT which is 5am AU EST which might be too early for me, will have to see how interested i am at 5am lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Harris Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 By the time we get up the HD version should be up on Youtube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Boyte Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner is now AIRBORN!!!! ;D Congrats Boeing!!! Im atching Live Feed here: http://www.kirotv.com/video/21964704/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 saw this coverage, really good stuff. wish it well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 450 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Congratulations Boeing!!! I really can not wait for the Emirates and Qantas Dreamliner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Henare Posted December 15, 2009 Author Share Posted December 15, 2009 I think the first commercial 787s we see in Australia will be Air New Zealand. They are the launch customer of the 787-9. But i am not sure of their delivery schedule. There is suggestion they may lease some 787-8s until the -9s are ready for delivery in 2013ish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Mason Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 A mate of mine is a helicopter pilot that has a "stable cam" type device in his helicopter and followed the 787 the whole way taking video in an as350, if I can get him to upload the footage I will post a link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 450 Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 That would be great Cheers Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afl04 Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Yeah i saw it take off this morning on sky news which was awesome, took forever taxiing out to the runway though. Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macca22au Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 NZEddy: I am sorry to be a smart.... But was the 787 'airborn" or "airborne". One way or the other I guess both are true. Don't worry, recently I left the 'l' out of public in a fairly important letter. I am waiting for the complaints or the congratulations to come in. From Nelson originally, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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