747-800 makes maiden flight.

[BigIron]

Some impressive pictures here:

http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraftsearch=Boeing 747-8JK&distinct_entry=true

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

We are expecting one of those here in the not so distant future, for some VV-VIP. What ever the f*#k that means. :icon_wink

 

[SynixMan]

Wiki says that's the -8I or Intercontinental. Longer upper section. The -8 Freight has already flown.

 

[yak52driver]

That is a big ol' airplane, that's for sure. Impressive pictures.

 

[jollygreen07]

Gorgeous. Boeing still builds them with class. It still looks like 50 engineers with slide rules designed the thing. Also, I like the new house colors. Harkening back to the early days perhaps?

 

[Treetop Flyer]

Saw the 787 doing testing in Yuma. That's an impressive looking plane

 

[jtmedli]

Gorgeous. Boeing still builds them with class. It still looks like 50 engineers with slide rules designed the thing. Also, I like the new house colors. Harkening back to the early days perhaps?

Ironically, I think they did it faster with slide rules back then than we do it with all the computers now.

 

[nittany03]

Ironically, I think they did it faster with slide rules back then than we do it with all the computers now.

I wonder how much of that delay is due to holders of engineering degrees and how much by holders of a J.D. or MBA.

Bureaucracy will expand to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

 

[jtmedli]

I wonder how much of that delay is due to holders of engineering degrees and how much by holders of a J.D. or MBA.

Bureaucracy will expand to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

If I were a betting man...I would say a lot!!