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Boeing 787 Makes US Debut

Posted by timothy on from the up-in-the-air-senior-birdman dept.

thomas.kane writes "After years of delays, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is set to take off from Bush Intercontinental Airport this morning bound for O'Hare. Designed to make the flying experience 'revolutionary,' it is constructed from composite materials, has larger windows than previous jetliners, and high efficiency engines. United Airlines became the first U.S. carrier to take delivery; they've ordered 50, but due to processing delays, they only have 2 right now. Start looking for more to take to the skies early next year."

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  1. US ? That's nothing. by ballpoint · · Score: 4, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, Boeing 787 Makes YOU Debut !

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  2. Meh ... by lennier1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was worried at first, until I saw that the airport was named after the at least somewhat sane one.

  3. New feature by freeasinrealale · · Score: 4, Funny

    But do the windows open?

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    1. Re:New feature by ArcadeMan · · Score: 5, Funny

      You can't open Windows because the 787 runs on Linux.

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  4. Did I miss something? by Russ1642 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Getting a bit of deja vu here. Looks like they'll be counting it as a first everytime this plane takes off. First for an American carrier, first time at night, first time with a special guest aboard, first flight with ground fog, etc.

    1. Re:Did I miss something? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think you're missing the point...the story here is that a US carrier can finally afford a new airplane.

    2. Re:Did I miss something? by rossdee · · Score: 1, Funny

      "a US carrier can finally afford a new airplane."

      Really? The Nomitz class carriers have been getting new versions of strike aircraft on a regular basis and soon they will be getting the naval version of the F35
      (Unless we go 'off the cliff' of course

    3. Re:Did I miss something? by localman57 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I really wish you software types would refrain from commenting on real science.

      Why? I deal with terrible code written by science types all the time. Payback's a bitch.

  5. But it's still United by magarity · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did they upgrade the staff with all new attitudes and customer service skills? Otherwise I'd rather be on another carrier's older plane.

  6. Processing delays? by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 3, Funny

    It turns out there was some poor guy at United Airlines refreshing this web page for months:

    Tracking results for order 18293387382484758342093837439382:
      Seattle, WA 2012-07-02 13:43:23 In Transit.
      The item has left the seller's facility.
      Estimated delivery time: NA
      No further information available, please check again later.

    What's worse, when the plane finally arrived, it was packed in a giant welded plastic clamshell. It took two weeks for a crew at the airline to extract the aircraft without damaging it.

  7. Re:Awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And yet there's RyanAir, which will sadly never work in the US because we lack an abundance of old military airfields an hour away from places that people actually want to go.