777 Cockpit View

Thanks - I have enjoyed looking around the flight deck - next time I'm aboard I'll offer to fly.

 

It's a Cadillac.
The last "Old School" aluminum commercial A/P Boeing will build. Plastics are the future.

Too bad the level of plasitics technology wasn't around when they designed and developed the A380. It's payload and performance figures as a result would have improved enough to make it a tough "bottom Line" competitor. As is, it's dry airframe weight is killing it.

 

Spasso, how come you know all that stuff about them ar'planes? Sure as hell didn't get it from yer ol' man.

 

These youngsters are supposed to be smarter than us old guys!

 

I didn't know about all that smart stuff when I was working on the design of that airplane back in 1988. That is one of Boeing's greatest airplanes, along with the B-52, KC-135, 707, 727, 747, and although I didn't work on it, the 737. I worked on the B-52 and everything else but the 777 has got to be a masterpiece. The wing design alone had over 150 iterations before they decided on a configuration, which proved to be the correct choice. It was all done on the computer and that was an industry first with 100 % success.

 

I read a lot of science fiction books in class when I was supposed to be learning about political efficacy and social science and crap like that. That's why i ain't so social.

 

Great 777 panel stuff. Have been looking for 30 min. Thanks