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Boeing 787 Dreamliner Delayed Again
An anonymous reader writes "It's not just that the Boeing 787 Dreamliner may be unsafe or vulnerable to hacker attacks. At this point, it seems everyone would be happy for it to arrive in any state. The 787's carbon-fiber construction and next-generation technology have pushed back their delivery schedule once again, this time requiring a redesign of the plane's wingbox. Airlines will have to wait 18 more months to get it delivered, which is an extremely serious blow to the credibility of the company and their financial standing, as they would have to pay penalties to the buyers of more than 850 of these planes. And we thought Airbus had problems." Good thing Boeing can still count on its patent portfolio.
I'm old... and I ain't gittin in one of them
thar newfangled plastic planes never no-how!
Delivery date met or not!
Dadnabit!
Git off my larn!
-AI
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion
At this point, it seems everyone would be happy for it to arrive in any state.
Not me. When I catch a plane to California, I sure don't wanna end up anywhere else!
There are more air planes in the sea than submarines in the sky.
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...what I'd like to know is how the 380 vs 787 delays stack up against each other. You can stack up about two dreamliners inside the A380 and still have some spare room for passengers.Don't worry, they'd never get off the ground in the first place. Weight and the endless Allow/Deny questions would see to that.
What's "wannabe" about it?
It's European. Remember that this website is in the US, where people become nervous when they don't see their flag for a couple of minutes.
That'd be a 747 with a bit of smoked glass and a random reordering of seating positions.
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
All passenger bring a piece of the aeroplane and a box of tools with them to the airport. They gather on the tarmac, arguing constantly about what kind of plane they want to build and how to put it together. Eventually, the passengers split into groups and build several different aircraft, but give them all the same name. Some passengers actually reach their destinations.
All passengers believe they got there. Windows Airlines:
The terminal is very neat and clean, the attendants all very attractive, the pilots very capable. The fleet of Learjets the carrier operates is immense. Your jet takes off without a hitch, pushing above the clouds, and at 20,000 feet it explodes without warning.
And I guess the executives who agreed on the name dreamliner are starting to regret their decision...
Man, that is so out of date.
Unix Express: Split into three operating companies.
Linux Cooperative:
All passenger bring a piece of the aeroplane and a box of tools with them to the airport. They gather on the tarmac, arguing constantly about what kind of plane they want to build and how to put it together. Eventually, the passengers split into groups and build several different aircraft, but give them all the same name. Some passengers actually reach their destinations.
All passengers believe they got there.
Apple Airlines:
The terminal is neat and clean, the attendants are attractive, the pilots very capable, the planes are beautiful, and you always reach the correct destination... unfortunately they have a fairly small fleet, most planes have no baggage compartment or overhead storage, and the seats aren't adjustable. Frequent Apple fliers are known to attack anyone who suggests that these are important features.
Legacy Air:
The terminal is neat and clean, albeit in an "industrial" style. You have to choose your plane ahead of time, because different planes only fly to different cities, and if your luggage doesn't match your plane you need to hire a baggage consultant to adjust it to fit. But the planes are fast, efficient, and always arrive on time or even ahead of schedule.
Windows Airlines:
The terminal is very neat and clean, with security barriers every few meters. The attendants are attractive, even if it's kind of creepy how much they want to "help" (especially in the restrooms). The pilots are allegedly very capable, though nobody ever sees them and there's an armed guard by the cockpit door. The fleet of jets it operates are immense. Your jet takes off without a hitch, pushing above the clouds, and at 20,000 feet a message pops up on the seat back in front of your asking "Should this plane explode now?". Some idiot always answers "Yes".
The other way it could go is to use semiballistic transport. You would build something like a space shuttle. The engines would burn for a couple of minutes and accelerate you to 5 km/s. You would get about 30 minutes of free fall followed by aerobraking and landing at your destination. It is perfectly feasible, just horribly expensive.
Especially if you need an extra long runway (imagine what those protesting at Heathrow would have to say were they to be told that the new 09L/27R was going to be nearly 5km long) and the aircraft is going to require a D check after every flight.
It still only has the ordinary symmetries of a plane. No supersymmetry in sight.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Sailboats
'... or simply going from NYC to LA?'
Waggons pulled by horses or oxen - your choice!)
Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ.
Weight? So what, they would just need Intel to make more powerful engines, as usual.
It still only has the ordinary symmetries of a plane. No supersymmetry in sight.
It doesn't even obey ordinary physical symmetries.
If you build one out of antimatter from plans viewed in a mirror and then try to fly it backwards through time, it just explodes on the tarmac.
Incompetent engineers if you ask me.
But then again, I could be wrong.
Q: What weights nothing. But, when loaded onto an airplane, can keep it from taking off?
A: Software.
Have gnu, will travel.