Dreamliner first flight

[TimH]

It Flies!! :D:D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAlieYcltcQ&feature=player_embedded

http://www.seattlepi.com/dayart/20091215/621787_josh_02b.jpg

[Paul Pless]

boat related though?

[TimH]

Boeing used to make boats! :D

[Tom Robb]

I wonder how the bandaids worked on the wing spars.
And I havn't seen a T33 jet trainer (chase plane) fly in 49 years.

[BigIsland]

Beautiful. Those cabin windows are going to be incredible, the tiny windows in Airbus' drive me nuts.

[frank pedersen]

Probably enough carbon fiber in it to build at least a thousand spars.

[Bob Adams]

Probably enough carbon fiber in it to build at least a thousand spars.


There's the boat connection!;)

[Rob Stokes, N. Vancouver]

boat related though?


Sure hope not :)

[TimH]

They also made furniture.

[Mad Scientist]

...And I havn't seen a T33 jet trainer (chase plane) fly in 49 years.

Canada used the T33 into the 80's for target towing (naval gunfire practice) and to simulate sea-skimming missiles.
AW&ST reproduced a painting of the X-1 for the 50th anniversary of Chuck Yeager's flight, and the chase plane in the painting looked like a single-seat version of the T33. Can't remember the designation, though.

Tom

[Tom Robb]

One seat T33s were early Korean War era fighters, IIRC. Mig 15s probably ended that idea.
And I don't remeber the designation either - mad cow....
The Dreamliner engine sound suggests a very high bypass. All whine, no roar.

[TimH]

The new engines are real quiet.

[gert]

boat related though?

Yea; flying boats :D
http://americanpublichousereview.com/cocktails/boeing_flying_boat.jpg

[TimH]

They built wood sailboats and yachts too. I keep seeing them popping up for sale.

[gert]

And then theres this beautiful lady:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3316/3557233124_cb199505c4.jpg
The motoryacht Taconite is 125 feet of classic beauty. She is one of the oldest, largest, and best preserved teak-hulled motor yachts, built on the West Coast in the early decades of the last century. Commissioned by William E. Boeing, the founder of Boeing Aircraft, as a private pleasure yacht which served his family for the next 47 years. Taconite was launched in 1930

[Vince Brennan]

One seat T33s were early Korean War era fighters, IIRC. Mig 15s probably ended that idea.
And I don't remeber the designation either - mad cow....


"Shooting Star", IIRC. "Bridges of ToKo-Ri" used Navy versions.

[Steve Paskey]

boat related though?

Well, it'd probably float for a while. Come to think of it, it might even float longer than the steel monstrosity in Peter Lehnihan's thrread, the one about those guys in Canada who are building a large boat without the assistance of a naval architect. :D This one's an Airbus A-320.

http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2009/plane_crash_redux/plane_crash_redux_01.jpg

[TimH]

Not only did Boeing build sailboats during the depression, but all planes are like boats in that they have port sides, starboard sides, afts, forwards, etc.

[Greever]

Not only did Boeing build sailboats during the depression, but all planes are like boats in that they have port sides, starboard sides, afts, forwards, etc.


That's because a lot of aviation terminology was "borrowed" from nautical terminology.

[TimH]

Exactly. Definately boat related :)

[johnw]

Not only did Boeing build sailboats during the depression, but all planes are like boats in that they have port sides, starboard sides, afts, forwards, etc.
And the shape is shown with 'waterlines.' 'Wetted surface is another term they've borrowed.

[capnharv]

Don't forget Station Lines, Buttock Lines, galleys, rudders, frames, keels. . .

[tomlarkin]

Here's a Boeing boat:

http://new.bcgrizzlytours.com/images/1/img_pacgriz_01.jpg
http://www.bcgrizzlytours.com/index.asp?p=104

It's for sale, too (http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/van/boa/1510748528.html).

[Bob (oh, THAT Bob)]

I wonder how the bandaids worked on the wing spars.
And I havn't seen a T33 jet trainer (chase plane) fly in 49 years.

Most ex-military planes, by the time they retire, are at maximum airframe hours due to metal fatigue issues with light alloys. T-33s, as I recall, have an airframe of chrome-moly steel, with much better fatigue life. That, coupled with the fact that the feds don't feel too threatened by civilian ownership and operation of a T-33, allows it to be operated relatively cheaply for a jet. (For example, all the recently decommissioned F-14s with mach 2 capability? I don't think any civilians will be getting their hands on any of those, at any price.) That is also why there was a program to refit them; Boeing may have several T-33s around due to this, from wiki:


In the 1980s, an attempt was made to modify and modernize the T-33 as the Boeing Skyfox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Skyfox), but a lack of orders led to the cancellation of the project. About 70% of the T-33s airframe was retained in the Skyfox, but it was powered by two Garrett (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Systems) TFE731-3A (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_TFE731) turbofan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbofan) engines.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/Boeing_Skyfox.jpg