Aw, I'm flying (or was) on one of these in just under 2 weeks with JAL. Was really looking forward to seeing how those windows work, and how the overall vibe of the thing is.
Safety first though, I guess.
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#12Aw, I'm flying (or was) on one of these in just under 2 weeks with JAL. Was really looking forward to seeing how those windows work, and how the overall vibe of the thing is. Safety first though, I guess.
I have traveled on ANA 787 between Narita/Tokyo and Seattle a few times. The planes are very comfortable - humidity and air pressure better than other Boeing planes. Windows are large but okay in blocking light. Windows could use darker shading to block out light during day travel.
As I posted in other thread, while sitting in emergency exit row at window seat, I could feel that the floor in front of the seat was unusually hot. After seeing location of the fire in pictures of JAL's 787, I get the impression that the emergency exit row seat was just above the cargo bay where fire originated. I am glad that ANA 787 I was on didn't catch fire.
Good to see that FAA, ANA, JAL making a decision to ground 787.
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#13Aw, I'm flying (or was) on one of these in just under 2 weeks with JAL. Was really looking forward to seeing how those windows work, and how the overall vibe of the thing is. Safety first though, I guess.
I have traveled on ANA 787 between Narita/Tokyo and Seattle a few times. The planes are very comfortable - humidity and air pressure better than other Boeing planes. Windows are large but okay in blocking light. Windows could use darker shading to block out light during day travel. As I posted in other thread, while sitting in emergency exit row at window seat, I could feel that the floor in front of the seat was unu…
Yeah I've heard good things from various reviews.
I don't really travel that much, but was going on both an A380 and 787 to Tokyo and back to Australia, so was curious to compare them.
Going by what you said, it's a good thing it was grounded then. I'm surprised UAL haven't grounded theirs too (yet).
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#14What a bunch of classic media hype calling these "disasters," with all the b-roll and graphics striking fear into the paranoid and uneducated. No piece of engineering rolls into production bug-free, ever. What makes for good engineering is how issues are handled and the severity of the problems. There have been zero injuries or deaths, was that mentioned? This pilot brought some sobering common sense; the anchors are fail.
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#16This is disconcerting. I'm pretty close to Everett plant so I see the plain white 787's first test flights (they just finished another one yesterday). For those of us who work on software, even complex distributed apps, the new plane is an unfathomably complex undertaking. The Seattle Times commenters are a mix of Boeing employees, rational outside observers and angry lunatics. http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.…
Never read the Seattle Times comments. The angry lunatics outnumber everyone else by a wide margin.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cockpit wiring issues will likely take more than just a few weeks to fix and be re-certified. There are miles and miles of cable in the front of an aircraft, just figuring out what went wrong, engineering a fix, fixing all the planes and getting the fix certified for passenger flights is a fair sized job. Nobody is going to take any chances with stuff like this.
Last thing I heard this was a battery issue. Have they already narrowed it down to cockpit wiring or are you just speculating based on your knowledge of aeronautics & place circuitry ?
Apologies, this is now outdated, the first time I heard about it there was talk of a cockpit wiring issue, it seems that there is now more information available.