Boeing was competing for a supersonic transport contract in 1965, at about the same time the 747 was conceived, and Pan Am founder and chairman Juan Trippe believed that the big subsonic jets would end up as freighters and that the SST would replace the 747 on passenger routes. Trippe was...
On the ground, an airliner is very much a heavy goods vehicle, with multiple wheels to match. “Our biggest aircraft,Cathay Cargo’s Boeing 747-8Ffreighter, can weigh up to 450 tonnes at take-off, which includes the aircraft itself and the cargo and fuel it...
A cool sneak peak: video of how the 787 will fly at FarnboroughDominic Gates
The prize winner built a 1/20th scale Boeing 747 which was able to fly for the comparative length of 1 football pitch, with a glide ratio of 1/15, comparable with a full scale glider. The winner of the scale competition was a high performance model Mirage III CZ, also with a very lo...
How Do Airplanes Fly: Weight and Lift Every object on Earth has weight, a product of both gravity and mass. A Boeing 747-8 passenger airliner, for instance, has a maximum takeoff weight of 487.5 tons (442 metric tons), the force with which the weighty plane is drawn toward the Earth...
How Do Airplanes Fly: Weight and Lift Every object on Earth has weight, a product of both gravity and mass. A Boeing 747-8 passenger airliner, for instance, has a maximum takeoff weight of 487.5 tons (442 metric tons), the force with which the weighty plane is drawn toward the Earth...
1. High Demand for Pilots According to Boeing’s 2023-2042 Pilot & Technician Outlook, 649,000 new pilots will be needed globally over the next 20 years. With a high rate of retirements and increased air travel, the demand for new airline pilots is stronger than ever. 2. Lucrative Salary...
LY.com/TravelGo hasn’t been around as long as Trip, but they’ve quickly grown in popularity over the past few years. Compare Prices on TravelGo At the very least, I recommend you use the Price Calendar tool to find the cheapest day to fly and then switch back to Trip.com to see ...
When the first of the type – registered as N7771 – was unveiled 20 years ago, a Boeing leadership team including such still-familiar names as Alan Mulally, Phil Condit and Mike Bair could not know how successful the 777 would become, but there were high hopes. Condit, who in less than...
Across the Atlantic, Boeing is also working, together with NASA, on a number of futurist aircraft concepts within the framework of the New Aviation Horizons initiative. MORE: Why the sun is setting on the Boeing 747 The SUGAR program (that stands for Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research) ...