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April 29, 2005

Boeing Dreamliner

One assumes Airbus have done their math vis a vis passenger numbers and destination airports large enough to accomodate their new aircraft. Gods, what a monster...

Moments after emerging from the cockpit of the A380 after its successful first flight, chief test pilot Jacques Rosay said flying the world�s biggest passenger jet had been "like handling a bicycle."

But for all the hype about the maiden flight of the new double-decker Airbus A380 I am forced to ask how long it would take to board or disembark and what the wisdom is in producing something whose scale paints a giant terrorist bullseye on the side.

I think Air Canada's decision to go with the new long-range Boeing 7E7 Dreamliner is a sensible one. Flea-readers who share my corporate video fetish can find plenty of Dreamliner goodness at the Boeing site. "7E7 Dreamliner Approved for Offer to Airlines" is particularly satisfying both for the crap sound quality and peculiar "raise the roof" gesture the project leader has picked up from his teenage children.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at April 29, 2005 06:04 AM

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