Boeing Preps the 787-9 Dreamliner for Farnborough

Jul 16, 2014 4 Replies

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On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 14:37:19 -0700 (PDT), snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com Gave us:

Nice. Thanks. One commentor said 50 degrees. He was off by 10 or

  1. It was easily 60 degrees. I can't believe that a couple commentors claimed it was CGI. A lot of not too bright folks out there.

They were definitely pushing the envelope especially with that tight banking and at such low altitudes too.

An empty airliner has quite a but of excess thrust (and lift) but still not 1:1. ;-)

My favorite of this sort:

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Still not an amazing thing for an airplane to do but that didn't stop the execs from getting pissed.

On Sat, 19 Jul 2014 08:18:37 -0700 (PDT), snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com Gave us:

Except that it had no load to bear, and was likely only 33% fueled.

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