August 16, 201114 yr For those that are looking forward to the 777 you may wish to while away a few hours watching this very detailed multiple part doc on the development story of the 777. Just beware the numbering system may seem a little confusing in the titles at first as the main title numbering differs from the sub heading numbering. this first one is 1-1 meaning part 1 of episode 1. vic
August 17, 201114 yr I have that recorded in a VHS tape somewhere! Man, thanks for reminding me. Isaac Magalhaes
August 17, 201114 yr Author i was amazed to discover that boeing used the first ever 747 protatype as a flying test bed for the new 777 engine made by pratt and whitney. they borrowed it from the museum it was collecting dust in. This seems like a strange choice as this aircraft must have not been airworth for many many years and would surely have taken a huge amount of work to get it back to flying condition, even the engines alone would have been a huge task i imagine? vic
August 17, 201114 yr i was amazed to discover that boeing used the first ever 747 protatype as a flying test bed for the new 777 engine made by pratt and whitney. they borrowed it from the museum it was collecting dust in. This seems like a strange choice as this aircraft must have not been airworth for many many years and would surely have taken a huge amount of work to get it back to flying condition, even the engines alone would have been a huge task i imagine? vic Sure, but I suppose it would be easily done by it's own manufacturer. There are pics of the 747 with the GE-90 on A.net. Isaac Magalhaes
August 17, 201114 yr i was amazed to discover that boeing used the first ever 747 protatype as a flying test bed for the new 777 engine made by pratt and whitney. they borrowed it from the museum it was collecting dust in. This seems like a strange choice as this aircraft must have not been airworth for many many years and would surely have taken a huge amount of work to get it back to flying condition, even the engines alone would have been a huge task i imagine? vic Im not sure an aircraft with such a oversized engine would be airworthy anyway, something that could only be flown by test pilots. Andrew Simmons Intel i7 950+Corsair H70. 6 Gig ram Kingston Hyperx 1600Mhz ASUS GTX560 Ti (900mhz core/1800Shader/2100Memory) 1T Cavier Black HD + 1T Cavier Green for backup jobs. Win7 64 Bit Asus X58A-UD3R (Rev2) OCZ 600w PSU DA-20 Katana Diamond (Aerosoft) A2A B377 (Captain of the Ship) Flightsim Labs ConcordeX. TM Warthog/TIR5/REX2/ASE/Topcat/RadarContact4/FSX PMDG MD-11/J41/Old737NG/747-400x /IFly737FSX/A2A Spitfire/A2A B-17 Accusim
August 17, 201114 yr Very interesting. Thanks for posting. Learnt a bit with this. Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. ~Gil Stern
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