Boeing 797 "the battle line has been drawn"

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BOEING 797
It can comfortably fly 10,000 Miles at Mach 0.88 or 654 mph
with 1000 passengers on board
They have kept this secret long enough.
This shot was taken last month by an amatuer photographer.
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Boeing has been preparing a 1000 passenger jet that could reshape the Air travel industry for the next 100 years. The radical Blended Wing design has been developed by Boeing in cooperation with the NASA Langley Research Center. The mammoth plane will have a wing span of 265 feet compared to the 747's 211 feet, and is designed to fit within the newly created terminals used for the 555 seat Airbus A380, which is 262 feet wide. The new 797 is in direct response to the Airbus A380 which has racked up159 orders, but has not yet flown any passengers.
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....There are several big advantages to the blended wing design, the most important being the lift to drag ratio which is expected to increase by an amazing 50%, with overall weight reduced by 25%, making it an estimated 33% more efficient than the A380, and making Airbus's ! $13 billion dollar investment look pretty shaky. High body rigidity is another key factor in blended wing aircraft, it reduces turbulence and creates less stress on the air frame which adds to efficiency, giving the 797 a tremendous 8800 nautical mile range with its 1000 passengers flying comfortably at mach .88 or 654 mph cruising speed (another advantage over the Airbus tube-and-wing designed A380's 570 mph)
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The exact date ! for introduction of the 797 is as yet unclear, but the battle lines are clearly drawn in the high-stakes war for future civilian aircraft supremacy.
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hi we know about the crappy poorly thrown together a380 airbus ,,,, QUANTAS in australia just had all 4 engines replaced and new carbon fibre sections done on the wings and body it cost 129 million bucks and 18months later its now back in australia ,,,,i,ll think i,ll take a train regards oldbiker
 
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its a cool concept though. in the early 2000's nasa threw a measley couple million dollars at the major aircraft manufacturers to get a design in the works - mainly in response to rising fuel prices (Jet A is around 6-7 bux a gallon) the problem with flying wing designs is amount of computer control required to keep them in the air. FADEC (Full authority digital engine/electronic control) and fly-by-wire is just now starting to catch on in the civilian world.
 
Actually FADEC has been in use in Helicopters for over 10 years. 7+ years for corporate jets. Jet A is 7.25 a gallon at Dallas Love Field. I work for Lufthansa currently, and they are totally indoctrinated into Airbus.

Right now we are working on one of only 4 Super Constellations left on the face of the earth. She was outfitted for 36 passengers, 150 foot wingspan, 116 feet long, and had 4 3200 horsepower 3350 raidial engines. Cruised at 25,000 feet, and carried 10,000 gallons of 130 octane gas. It could fly nearly 6000 NM, but only at 325 MPH. Modern jets all travel above 500 MPH.

One bad thing I've found on FADEC is the "save" feature some use, that will roll an engine back to idle if it goes out of control on top.

The other is that the electronic data collection can cause problems. One particular Pratt & Whitney engine has had several incidents of recording "hot start" episodes that obviously did not happen, as the post-event inspections are revealing no damage that should have been caused by the temperature and duration recorded.

Brake by wire is another technology with huge teething pains. Same kind of trouble. The electronics are "smarter" than the basic energy transmission systems in the aircraft, and they are programmed to do what is right, but I've scraped up a couple of multi-million dollar jets that had brake failures induced by the comuter, when no mechanically debilitating condition existed.

As far as crappy thrown together aircraft, after talking with several people who have worked on it, the 787 Dreamliner sounds like a basket of trouble.

Give me a 737.
 
I don't get on any of them anymore but I'm sure thats not going to throw them into bankruptcy.
jefft
 
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