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The Stuff That Dreams Are Made OfIf you havenât seen it yet, hereâs the upcoming Boeing 787 âDreamliner'sâ interior: Sort of Star Trek, TNGish with the all the curves. Not a bad thing. Certainly feels âfuture.â And the blue lighting wasnât just for the photo. It can be manipulated in flight, in color and brightness, to mimic outside conditions. Probably less fatiguing in some body-clock, scientific way. Hereâs the entranceway, all vaulted and round and blue-glowy too:
If you look at the shots, you can tell the windows are a good bit larger than the little portals weâre used to too. Another change, one that doesnât show up in photos, is to the interior humidity. The 787 will actually have some. No longer is airplane air going to be metal-tinged, bone dry stuff. These changes to the planeâs interior are the result of changes in the planeâs exterior. No aluminum anywhere. No metals at all, for that matter. The 787 is carbon-fiber plastic. Itâs going to be the first commercial plane, fuselage and wings, made up of composites. This is a big deal: Weight, of course, is of paramount concern to an aerospace engineer. And that's where composites come in. Skins, frames and stringers made out of carbon fiber are lighter than aluminum but just as sturdy. Making the cage and its cover out of composites can reduce the airplane's heft dramatically while increasing its strength. The article that snippet comes from, a longish January piece from the Chicago Tribune, is a damn good read, and well worth registering for. A magazine type piece, it places the move to composites in the context of commercial airline history, and explains what a change and gamble it was specifically for Boeing and its culture. It was a move they had to make. Early in the decade, Boeing was getting its ass handed to it by the European consortium Airbus. Overall, there were still more Boeings in service, but for several years, in a completely unheard of development, Boeing was getting fewer orders for new planes than a rival (frankly, even having a competitor was a change). Boeing needed a big shakeup to leap it ahead of Airbus and composites were it. For the 787, they decided to construct the plane in big carbon-fiber chunks, long strips of whole fuselage baked in an autoclave. Later, they would be assembled together withour rivets. Essentailly, big epoxyâd strips of more carbon fiber would be wrapped around the fuselage sections, joining them like duct tape joining pieces of tubing. For buyers, the move to composites just makes economic sense. The plane is cheaper to make and thus to sell. Itâs also 20% lighter than if it was made from aluminum. Lighter planes means less fuel which means cheaper to fly planes with longer ranges. But thereâre other plusses. Business Week details some of those advantages the Tribune snippet hinted at: Dreamliner engineers are discovering that their composites are even tougher than they initially imagined. So Boeing is able to guarantee customers that maintenance costs will be 30% lower than for aluminum planes. Airbus went in another direction: bigger. Their humongous A380, now rescheduled for a delayed release in 2007, tries to out-efficient Boeing by simply packing more passengers into each flight. At first, they were pretty cocky this was all the advantage they needed: When asked to comment on the announcement of chief rival Boeing's plans to introduce the long-haul, super-efficient 787 Dreamliner jet, the Airbus chief responded: "We don't need to react to the presentation of this plane." Their mindset was pretty inflexible, pretty confident bigger would turn out to be better. And they were mouthing off that the all-composite move was simply too drastic. Boeing was betting the company otherwise, taking the view that the A380 is too big, that the big airport and big gates it requires leave it out of step with the trend in the industry away from the old central-hub/reconnecting flights model. The future, they believed, belonged to effcient, long distance, smaller "more direct flight friendlyâ planes. And, in a slap at Airbus's A350, their new, smaller belated response to the 787 that uses more composites, Der Speigle summed the plane up in Airbus A350, No Match For Dreamliner, writing, âthe company doesnât have the time, money or manpower to create a competing jet.â But that was back in the summer. Has the outlook changed for the Dreamliner since then? Yes. Itâs gotten even better. On Friday, Boeing announced theyâve already sold out the first three-year run of the 787âs production. Further market-place votes should emerge in the next day or so from Dubai, where a big annual air show is going on right now. An industry event, Boeing and Airbus are there in full effect, flying their planes about, trying to make impressions on the Mid-East Airlines gathered there to buy. So far in Dubai, Boeing's doing record numbers with Dreamliner inspired updates on older models. | Recent Comments
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