Last week, I published a post detailing the resumption time lines of the 787 Dream liner which has been grounded since January 16 (my birthday) due to battery overheating. Since the time of the grounding, Boeing has began the process of installing modified batteries housed in a stainless steel ...
Above: moving map display on ANA flight NH1077 from Seattle to Tokyo Narita, my first 787 flight which I flew on October 25, 2012. The flight has since been pulled from service due to the aircraft grounding (see below)
Author's note: this my second post discussing the ...
Above: All Nippon Airways JA813A, a 787 I flew from Seattle to Tokyo on October 25, 2012, prior to the aircraft's grounding. Photo taken by me @SeaTac airport
No-going for Boeing
It's been nearly a decade since Boeing Co. unveiled cutting-edge plans to launch the Boeing ...
So for the Star Alliance MegaDo 4, the plane was advertised as being a reconfigured 767-400. However, as the FAA filing for the event was published, there was an aircraft substitution that was never announced to everyone. As everyone knows, sometimes that can be a bad thing, sometimes ...
In early July I got the opportunity to fly on the new Lufthansa B747-8i in business class.
This new aircraft was the first to have LH’s new flatbed Business class seats. Over all it is a major improvement from the old LH seats in Business class. I was able to score a seat ...
Although United Airlines, with great fanfare, announced that the Boeing 787 would operate the carrier's new Denver-Tokyo Narita route next year, that will not be the first route we will see United's newest fleet addition on. Today, United filled us in on what other routes we can look for the ...
Despite the irony of Boeing depending on war and carnage, and thereby the death of soldiers, to stay profitable, the aerospace firm manages to put together a nice Memorial Day ad each year. This year's ad is compelling and reminds us of the sacrifice borne by soldiers in both wars present and ...
One of the megado exclusives was the Boeing Customer Experience Center. Now, this is not a place where the average person can just go and check-out the options available for the aircraft, especially since some of these options will never see passenger use because they take too much space. ...
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I have lots of photos from my visit to Oshkosh for EAA Airventure 2011. This post contains photos of the 787 Dreamliner which was on site just for the day. My last post had photos of military aircraft mostly from the afternoon Airventure ...
It's been rumored for weeks, but American Airlines finally made the announcement this morning that they have placed an order for 460 new narrow body single-aisle aircraft. Somewhat surprisingly, the all Boeing airline has split this order between Boeing and Airbus. Additionally, American is ...
Back in May, Continental announced plans to begin non-stop service between Houston and Auckland in November 2011 on one their newly-delivered 787-8 aircraft.
But if you've been reading the news lately, you know that Boeing has, well, run into a few (more) problems with their 787 ...
Last week an American Airlines plane flying from Miami to Boston experienced a decompression and a hole ripped open in the skin of the airplane above the forward door. Fortunately there were no injuries and the plane returned to Miami without any further incident.
This is the second of two incidents recently and Boeing recently issued a bulletin about structual fatigue for certain models of 757s.
Nonetheless, it's not every day you get to see a picture and since one popped up on the internetz, i wanted to share.
Although the prototype design appears unconventional based on the way we currently envision commercial aircraft, MIT is serious: the technology exists to substantially decrease fuel consumption while not compensating performance. Take a look at their proposal, at left, for the future of Boeing's ...
Yesterday marked the 56th Anniversary of the plane that became known as the 707 and propelled commercial aviation into the jet age. On July 15, 1954 the Boeing 367-80, nicknamed the Dash-80, made its first test flight from Renton Field in Seattle.
The 707 was not the first commercial ...
