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BeastOfExmoor posted:Holy poo poo, I had no idea this existed. To make it better I live pretty much right on the approach to Paine Field and more then once have glanced out my window and seen the Dreamlifter. I can't tell if they're currently flying the thing, but I'm going to keep my eyes peeled from now on. Yes, there are 4 of them, all in use several times a month, moving sections and wings of the 787 from all over the world to final assembly in Everett.
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Arson Daily posted:anything to keep the NG line open I guess. p8 has a separate line and the p8 is the only thing using NG bodies at this point
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hobbesmaster posted:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67808645 im just so lucky that boeing doesnt spend a cent on us 
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Bondematt posted:Well for starters, it'd be real hard to fly the plane with the nose in front of the cockpit. hotdog in a hallway
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Just saw an an-124 land, nice change of scenery compared to the usual sightings of Dreamlifter pigs
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BalloonFish posted:That doesn't seem to be the case now. It definitely isnt I'm going to see if the plug is installed by spirit. I would not be surprised
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fknlo posted:Wasn't Boeing planning on making a new design but several operators told them no because they didn't want to have to do a new type rating? its a bit of chicken or egg on this issue. boeing was considering a new clean sheet design but knew that it would take a while and were convinced that they needed to beat airbus to market ahead of the neo. the cost and time to get to market with a new design while still dealing with the newly certified 787 (and still wildly unprofitable) made this tough to stomach and would probably not allow them to do cool guy poo poo like stock buybacks. the only way to do that would be to make another derivative (boeing's favorite thing) and one of the most obvious benefits was that training could be minimized, which was an immediate selling point for the max and one that they leaned on heavily right off the bat.
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fknlo posted:Gonna laugh when the insane documentation that shows who touches every single part of an airplane is blank so they can't figure out who didn't torque the bolts properly. it's absolutely not blank however, did the person who signed off the operation to do that particular bit of work actually do it? or was it their lead or coworker? who knows!?
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Platystemon posted:Second‐opinion bias tells us that this story is true: not really true to say that innovation stopped for boeing, the 757/767 were developed in the early 80s simultaneously with a cockpit similar enough that one could be certified to fly both types the 777 is easily the best commercial product boeing ever made, got the whole thing done and certified in record time, has insanely good reliability rating and very, very, very few total losses after nearly 30 years in service. 787 is innovative but the business model undermined all of the innovation behind it. the max stinks. the 777x is taking way too loving long to get certified. tanker is a loving mess. 767freighters are still cranking out for the two remaining customers until the end of 2026, so i guess they can still make something besides 777F.
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Nebakenezzer posted:How's the P-8 program? Someone I know just made a big downpayment on some Seems to be ok? on schedule and no bad press? Almost done making them though
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Chuck_D posted:Yikes, that was brutal. Who's grand idea was it to put the loving CEO on the evening news? A CEO with no technical background lol, just the worst poo poo of all time.
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7e7 became the 787. NMA was the only semi official name for the 757 "replacement" and they wanted to do a goofy rear end elliptical shaped fuselage for it
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this L-1011 is also still working https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQk9z2R2uOQ
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boeing's tarnished their reputation so badly we have experts stating that 22 year old planes are in fact, in the hands of maintenance crews.
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Freaquency posted:Boeing has selected a new CEO quote:And Stan Deal, president and chief executive of Boeing’s commercial airplanes unit, is leaving the company effective immediately. Moving into his job is Stephanie Pope, who recently became Boeing’s chief operating officer after previously running Boeing Global Services.
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a patagonian cavy posted:The hundreds of 737s stored at KMWH are there because their customers can’t take them- they’re largely Chinese-bound frames and China did not approve the 737 MAX for commercial service until a few months ago. Additionally, each frame will require rework to bring it up to the new approved standard (MCAS fixes plus a few other things). This is correct, that tweet thread sucks
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Psion posted:Speaking of 737s, what's the little plastic bit between the two panes of a passenger window? It's up at the top, usually. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IQyvLpi5V0 1H: 40 min mark its a diffuser for the breather hole between the inner pane (nonstructural) and the middle pane
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