If it's not BOEING, I'm not going ... ???

[insanebikerboy]

Airbus = Renault
Boeing = Caddilac
Grumman = International Harvester

Ah, nothing like being summed up by a fellow gearhead. Understand completely now.

 

[Junkball]

The Boeing website is hosting some sort of webcast for the first flight, hopefully with video. http://787firstflight.newairplane.com/ffindex.html

Anyone have a news link w/ video, or the scheduled flight time? I imagine CNN will cover it... if "Courtney Love loses custody of daughter" doesn't take priority (a more popular news story on the website, WTF is this country coming to?) The article is also full of annoying errors.

Taxi test

Sure is a sweet-lookin A/C

 

[A4sForever]

METAR KPAE 151453Z 15010KT 10SM FEW024 05/03 A2977 RMK AO2 SLP087 T00500033 53005

After years of delays, Boeing determined its new 787 jetliner will finally fly - Chicago Tribune

Boeing first flight a key milestone, not end of the road - Seattle PI Aerospace blog

 

[Uncle Fester]

Airbus = Renault
Boeing = Caddilac
Grumman = International Harvester

I always thought Grumman = Harley...

 

[Fog]

Have they flown the 787 yet today? Hope someone will post as soon as it happens.

This a/c management project is becoming a textbook case in how NOT to manage a new technology. Getting the "we-the-people" contributory efforts in building it were definitely not worth what they have cost Boeing this time. Of course, EADS' corporate structure ensures this type of CF project management on everthing they do.

 

[A4sForever]

Here's some period pix from another Boeing 'first flight', a little over 40 years ago ...

Capt Waddell arriving @ Paine Field in his Ford Shelby Cobra
for a flight (yea-as, those really ARE snow tires & a ski rack ) ----------------------- Assigned seating only

F/O Wygle, CAPT Waddell, S/O Wallick on the ramp for the 'first' ...
(Boeing only hired test pilots with a last name beginning w/ a "W" ... ) ---------- Just another day at the office, this one comes w/ a window seat

NOW THIS IS WHAT WE CAME FOR !!!

And last, but not least, the first air-to-air intercept of a BOEING 747 WHALE ...
.... complements of North American and its F-86 line of products ...

 

[yak52driver]

Have they flown the 787 yet today? Hope someone will post as soon as it happens.

This a/c management project is becoming a textbook case in how NOT to manage a new technology. Getting the "we-the-people" contributory efforts in building it were definitely not worth what they have cost Boeing this time. Of course, EADS' corporate structure ensures this type of CF project management on everthing they do.

Sitting in KPIA on a charter right now. Latest on the flight is around 1 p.m. in WA.

 

[Pugs]

Capt Waddell arriving @ Paine Field in his Ford Shelby Cobra
for a flight (yea-as, those really ARE snow tires & a ski rack )

Ford Shelby Mustang

 

[FrankTheTank]

A4s: As a major airline pilot, what is your (and compatriots') professional opinion of Airbus aircraft?

I'll give 2 Euros, Boeing makes pilot oriented and pilot friendly aircraft while Airbus makes an engineers airplane. Our buses (A300/310) fly very similar to the 727 but are a bit more responsive for being so much bigger. I actually enjoy hand flying the A-300 more than the 727. Hand flying the 310 is Good with GE motors and the -300 not -200 series. But the jet, systems and it's automations are definately not intuitive.

Note: I can only give my 2 cents of the 72 and A-300/310 having flown those. And really the 300/310 don't count because they are kinda different (older technology/design) than the newer 319/320 generations.

My buds on the 757 say they like the systems and airplane better but also like the A-300 hand flying better. But it could be that the Airbus pays more

 

[yak52driver]

Dreamliner just took off. I swear it looked like a T-33 flashed by the camera flying chase. Cool that Boeing finally got it off the ground.

 

[Junkball]

http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream1

CNN has the flight live. Sure is a beautiful A/C

Wish they would pull up the gear so we can see those clean lines

 

[Pugs]

Dreamliner just took off. I swear it looked like a T-33 flashed by the camera flying chase. Cool that Boeing finally got it off the ground.

A section of them. Nice video and great looking jet. The amount of flex in the wing was stunning for what must be a light loaded jet.

 

[A4sForever]

Ford Shelby Mustang

Yeah, yeah, yeah .... nitpicker. I guess that's better than being a nose picker ... ???

*sigh* ... I keep giving and giving and giving and ... and yet they push the old man around ...

 

[Flugelman]

Dreamliner just took off. I swear it looked like a T-33 flashed by the camera flying chase. Cool that Boeing finally got it off the ground.

Answer is here...

 

[yak52driver]

Answer is here...

Thanks! I didn't realize they had those around for chase.