If it aint Boeing, I aint going

[Guest]

I have been looking forward to this for a while.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/07/08/boeing.787.ap/index.html

[Jand3rson]

Yeah, I was just watching something about that on the news. Already 60 of them on order so far at over $200 million each. Crazy shit!

[h0lmes]

Yeah, I was just watching something about that on the news. Already OVER 600 of them on order so far at over $200 million each. Crazy shit!

[BeirBrennerE30]

This is why there is a carbon fiber shortage...

[Jand3rson]

600? Holy balls.

[LINUS]

I've been hearing that this is the decade that Airbus effectively got caught with their pants down.

I heard that this thing wasn't going together very well, there was a 3" jog/mismatch in the fuslage for a bit since so many parts are outsourced and only meet at the assembly line.

Good to see Boeing got this thing ironed out, middle class jobs are a fading memory here in the PNW if we lost them and all vendors to the Kansas plant.

[Maluco]

and now begins all the testing... only 9 months to do so as well. They better hope nothing or next to nothing comes up.

[h0lmes]

I've been hearing that this is the decade that Airbus effectively got caught with their pants down.

I heard that this thing wasn't going together very well, there was a 3" jog/mismatch in the fuslage for a bit since so many parts are outsourced and only meet at the assembly line.

Good to see Boeing got this thing ironed out, middle class jobs are a fading memory here in the PNW if we lost them and all vendors to the Kansas plant.

Airbus is pretty much shitting their pants right now. The A380 is a cool concept but its just a hunk of shit. It has been having problem after problem and their customers have been dropping like flys. Boeing has it all right with the 787.

[Sean]

HELL YES! GO Boeing! Hahaa...boooya.

[AndrewBird]

Goddamn airplanes making carbon fiber expensive...

[hugh jass]

Goddamn airplanes making carbon fiber expensive...

why use carbon fiber when you can use pewter instead?

pewter.......the right material for the job!

[Maluco]

Airbus is pretty much shitting their pants right now. The A380 is a cool concept but its just a hunk of shit. It has been having problem after problem and their customers have been dropping like flys. Boeing has it all right with the 787.

How do production delays translate into the A380 being a "hunk of shit"? Planes fly once they are a finished product. Once they begin to fly they are judged according to many a factors. I think it would be fair to allow the finished product to begin its career before we judge it. Yes, cost of production and such is a huge factor but that's for Airbus to worry about and still doesn't make the plane inferior. It would simply make those carrying out her production and design inferior.

The 787 will actually be competing with Airbus' A350 (currently under dev). However, judging by the production and delivery problems they have had and the fact that for a while they errouneously considered the 787 a non-threat to it's A330, I think Boeing will be ahead for quite some time. The 777 is by far my favorite plane to fly one. At least with American. TV Monitors on the back of every seat in coach = more convenient long-haul flights.

[Jscotty]

Any plane that has a multiple stall restroom gets high marks in my book!

[Maluco]

Any plane that has a multiple stall restroom gets high marks in my book!

Any plane who's 1,2,3 or however many stalls doesn't end up like the one below gets the HIGHEST mark in my book.

[MR 325]

I saw this on the news aswell, looks amazing!