30 knot winds arent exactly something to just gloss over. that takes quite a bit of skill and talent. that guy deserves a lot more credit than what he got in this tiny video!
Gooberwalla There are 825 open orders for 787s... I don't think they're having too much trouble selling them. A330 has 1,352 total orders with delivery beginning in 1993. 787 has 1,072 total orders with beginning in 2011. There are currently more open orders for 787s than for 777s, which is pretty amazing considering how successful the 777 has been.
2:32 What a nice and smooth landing. After the rear wheels are down, they turn the plane perfect in line before the front wheel touch the ground. Thumbs up!
They pull the switch backwards to test a rejected takeoff, or a takeoff that has 1 or more flaw which causes the aircraft to be unable to takeoff. Rotate means to lift the nose up for takeoff, they say rotate cause of the planes vertical axis is slightly tipping up.
@CaptainKorhonen I dont think so... when they test the challenger 601 for stall recovery, both bombardier's test pilots died because that plane cannot recover from a stall. after that they reinforce the stall warning systems to not let this happen again.
@3nasacova Wrong, he never said the wind is coming at you head on. he said the cross wind is. I would interpret "head on cross-wind" as having a direction of motion completely perpendicular to the direction of the wind.
Carbon fiber and plastic are two completely different classes of materials. You can have fiber-reinforced plastic, but that's still a combination of two families of materials.
@oisiaa Its not a recommendation, you actually have to land in a crab like that. If you fly straight, without the crab to compensate for the crosswind, then your airplane will drift off the center-line.
Thing is that is if you mass produce anything, your going to get issues no matter what your producing, the Trent 900 was certainly a massive problem in which will make RR Engines safer in the future. RR Aren't going to make the same mistake twice! I love both Airbus aircraft and Boeing as I am fascinated by jets in general.
You have to point the aircrafts nose when your landing towards the wind so the body of the aircraft can line up with the run way. at the very last few seconds you quickly turn the body of the aircraft so the nose points with the runway. Google up crabbing an aircraft.
@3nasacova well think about it what if your going north and the wind is coming from the northwest wouldnt that mean that the wind is coming from in front and from the side? would that mean your heading into a crosswind?
It is a kind of plastic, yes. There any many types of carbon fiber, some can withstand heavy temperature, although i wouldn´t recommend inhaling the smoke from it :)
Test request: both pilots have been killed by terrorists, then the passengers somehow manage to kill the terrorists. Now they are out of pilots and have to select an average dude who has no pilot experience to land the aircraft. How easy is the 787 to operate when you have no flight knowledge?
As an instructor pilot on the B787, I've flown it with 30 knots crosswind in the simulator and it flies very well. Most airplanes require the crab be corrected prior to touchdown but the 787 can actually land with a crab....it will straighten itself out on landing but other aircraft require the aircraft to be slipped in....one wing lowered into the wind and rudder pedal opposite....normal crosswind landing techniques....
Carbon fiber is, as its name implies, carbon (like graphite). I happen to work with the stuff regularly in a structural fire testing facility (we test concrete beams reinforced with carbon fiber instead of steel in a very large furnace). In a fire, you can expect carbon fiber to burn eventually, but I'm sure Boeing has made it highly fire resistant in the 787, and you must remember that aluminum melts at fairly low temperatures anyway.
I've always wondered, what is the drogue you have installed on the tail? I see it show up in so many videos of aircraft tests, yet have never found any information on it.
Time will tell. Boeing has been in business for almost 100 years. They've developed and pioneered technologies in aviation and manufacturing that have allowed other manufactures to build safe quality aircraft. Boeing was the market leader in civil aviation for years. When Airbus has been around for 100 years then we'll know if they're 'better'
@IIsierra116II Challenger 600 is a T-tail plane, it can recover from regular stalls but from from a "deep stall" where the wings block the slipstream from going over the horizontal stabilizer, rendering the elevators useless. The test pilot died but the other crew member, a flight engineer, parachuted to safety. Test crew are equipped with parachutes, but there's no special hatches or ejection seats. If you're lucky enough to evacuate the plane, great. Otherwise... yeah. The end.
the 787 uses the latest wingtip design technology. it is shown to be just slightly more efficient than other types of wingtips such as winglets. looks kind of like a birds wing. go figure.
