i don't remember if i've read this before...it's from may.
1 FaverShareViewed: 3 TimesQuoted: It’s easy to lose track of something in the world’s biggest building — even a jumbo jet engine.
who is leaking this? if boeing ever finds out, you can bet they'll be canned. interesting news, but...i'm kind of surprised that internal photos are getting leaked.
1 FaverShareViewed: 21 TimesQuoted: Photos of the final-assembly process show the jet's first two forward sections did not fit properly when initially joined. On one side, there was a gap wide enough to stick a finger in.
2 FaversShareViewed: 32 TimesQuoted: For the company that Bill Boeing founded in Seattle in 1916, the 787 represents a comeback, a return to heady days when it was known for blazing aviation trails. This is the story of the Dreamliner's birth.
1 FaverShareViewed: 3 TimesQuoted: Indeed, short of an 8.0 earthquake, an eruption of Mount Rainier or the Mariners winning the World Series, Boeing’s debut of its best-selling, superefficient jetliner won’t be upstaged anytime soon by a Pacific Northwest event.
oh give me a fucking break, airbus. Leahy is always mouthing off about the 787 and what Boeing's doing.
Quoted: "I prefer to talk about my product," he said, "I don't like when my competitor is talking about my product."
"What Jim McNerney said is wrong," Gallois said. "It's completely unfair to say that."
2 FaversShareViewed: 6 Times1 FaverShareViewed: 40 TimesQuoted: Boeing Co. said today that it will not use a wireless network to deliver in-flight entertainment on its 787 "Dreamliner" airplane because of problems involving ...
This is super sweet. I'm getting one.
1 FaverShareViewed: 25 TimesQuoted: The newest and most revolutionary aircraft in the legendary Boeing fleet, the 787 Dreamliner™ is designed for ultimate in air travel, and now it can be yours in this exclusive collector's model! With authentic colors, scale and details, the LEGO® Boeing 787 Dreamliner is just like the real thing!
Quoted: In what would be a radical change of course for the company, Airbus may switch to a composite fuselage for its next new jetliner.
1 FaverShareViewed: 31 TimesQuoted: It would mark the sixth time that Airbus has changed plans as it scrambles for the right airplane to not only challenge The Boeing Co.'s 787 Dreamliner but possibly leapfrog the 777. The two Boeing planes are dominating sales for jets that seat from about 250 to 350 passengers.
1 FaverShareViewed: 18 TimesQuoted: Chicago based aircraft manufacturer Boeing has been hit by rising costs in relation to its Dreamliner 787 project according to the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post. Weight issues and supplier delays were likely to crank up development costs by millions of dollars over this year and next. CEO James McNerney said that the firm remains confident of delivering the aircraft on time in 2008.
One of my colleagues from Usability Engineering is working on the 787 Monitoring System.
Quoted: NASA’s Orion crew vehicle’s smart cockpit will monitor the vehicle's health, use synthetic, enhanced and virtual vision systems, have advanced on-screen symbology and may eventually employ a talking computer.
1 FaverShareViewed: 14 TimesQuoted: The Lockheed Martin-built Orion will use a glass cockpit that is derived from Honeywell's Boeing 787 flight deck technology. Orion’s cockpit computers will carry out routine and repetitive system monitoring tasks, which Apollo-era astronauts had to do themselves.
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