787 first commercial flight

[densoo]

At 0:20-0:22, I'm sold.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUVoKMYTMpo&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[Tomct]

Going to be a great airplane!!

 

[Sluggo_63]

Saw it sitting on the ramp in Narita. Pretty cool.

 

[scoreboardII]

American made jet, launch customer a foreign airline, times they are uh changing.

 

[PUNISHER]

American made jet, launch customer a foreign airline, times they are uh changing.

Not even made in the USA, only assembled in the USA. Times are a changing indeed.

 

[BrickTop]

A Wal-mart Era Airplane. Plastic junk.

 

[LearLove]

Are those 4 bags full (as in weight)? I bet 4 full (as in packed by average joe with bricks) bags would bust that bin after a month. Not to mention 9 seats across (3, 3, 3) needs 9 bags so 8/side plus other junk is still going to cause bags to be gate checked.

Until our ever dumbing engineers or greedy bean counters get it into their heads that they need to take the area of an average fat American at 5 foot 10 inches - 220lbs (seated) with a roller bag and laptop/carry bag then multiply that space by the number of seats the aircraft is designed for we will continue to have problems (and sh!tty designs) and piss off the flying public.

Maybe years ago you could get away with designing seating/bags for average 80% or less capacity but today with capacity discipline and bag fees - every plane is full and every pax is lugging a roller and carry on bag down the jetway.

 

[Scrapdog]

Saw it sitting on the ramp in Narita. Pretty cool.

Yeah, but can it do a cloverleaf?

 

[Sluggo_63]

Yeah, but can it do a cloverleaf?

Yeah, but it's pretty weak, since you can't see the horizon behind you as you pull through inverted.

 

[mrebuck]

And the fact most passengers can't lift their own bag into the overhead bin without hitting someone's head who is already seated.