SOMETIME NEXT YEAR, the first Boeing 787 Dreamliner-will rise into the skies-above Seattle, The takeoff will probably be like any other, but the plane sure won't. Why? One word: composites. The midsize, wide-body 787 - whose overall design Boeing finalized just a few months ago is ...
That’s why GE’s new turbofan engine is enormous: Built using lightweight carbon fiber and 3-D printing, the GE9X is as wide as a Boeing 737 fuselage (yes, it’s a plane engine the size of another plane) and will eventually power Boeing’s 777X, the biggest twinjet ever. Despite ...
a350-900 in the growing middle eastern market. the 787 itself, launched in 2011, is still among the most advanced jets on the planet, built from lightweight carbon fiber and stuffed with the latest in aviation tech. each pilot gets a head-up display, the plane spots and counters ...
2 million pound A3XX will not only be the largest airplane in the world, but it will also be one of the most advanceD. The outer wings and the horizontal stabilizer (as big as a smaller jet’s wing) will be made of carbon-fiber composite materials, and will be the largest such struct...
“We have multiple layers of redundancy, and layers of protection, to ensure that the folding wingtip always remains extended in flight, and only folds when it’s commanded [when the plane is on the ground].” Military airplanes on carriers have already been using folding wings to take up ...
757亦因其高的爬升速度而被称为“火箭飞机”(Rocket Plane),在最大起飞重量的情况下,757能比其他商业客机在较短的时间内爬升至41,000英尺(12,000米)。另有一些航空公司都选用757来往气候较热和地势较高的目的地,例如墨西哥城,因为它在以上地方的性能亦比其他机型出色。基于以上情况,墨西哥总统亦选择757作为其行政...
[127] During a reassessment of the aircraft in February 2020, both FAA and EASA determined that the stability and stall characteristics of the plane would have been acceptable with or without MCAS.[128] 参考译文:MCAS被波音认为是必要的,以满足其内部目标,即最小化已经获得737NG资格的飞行员的训练...
Is it a game changer? Yes. The Dreamliner ushers in a new era of lighter (primarily made of lightweight carbon fiber composites), more fuel-efficient commercial airplanes. Boeing says it will be 20 percent more fuel efficient than a comparable mid-size wide body plane. If the plane lives ...
a350-900 in the growing middle eastern market. the 787 itself, launched in 2011, is still among the most advanced jets on the planet, built from lightweight carbon fiber and stuffed with the latest in aviation tech. each pilot gets a head-up display, the plane spots and counters ...
Low-key launch:Originally planned as a celebration of the new plane, the launch event was simplified to respect the recent loss of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 MAX 8. Boeing employee/Twitter So you want a plane with huge lift capability and the wingspan to match, but you a...