Ilikeflight From United States of America, joined Mar 2006, 366 posts, RR: 1 Reply 1, posted (5 years 10 months 2 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 3785 times:
N178UA From United Arab Emirates, joined Jan 2001, 1626 posts, RR: 69 Reply 2, posted (5 years 10 months 2 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 3777 times:
Congrats Royal
Saw the livecast on Boeing website. was trying to find you pal !!
Great effort and i knew you will be there and be the first !!
N178UA From United Arab Emirates, joined Jan 2001, 1626 posts, RR: 69 Reply 4, posted (5 years 10 months 2 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 3746 times:
Comm'on guys, Royal made the effort to be there and work hard to get the 1st shot online in very short time. I just checked other website, dosen't even have the 787 photo. All credit to Royal. I really appreciate his work, to show all of us the first dreamliner.
Dvincent From United States of America, joined Jan 2007, 1719 posts, RR: 12 Reply 6, posted (5 years 10 months 2 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 3731 times:
Quoting N178UA (Reply 7): Comm'on guys, Royal made the effort to be there and work hard to get the 1st shot online in very short time. I just checked other website, dosen't even have the 787 photo. All credit to Royal. I really appreciate his work, to show all of us the first dreamliner.
What about the guys out in the sunlight on the opposite side of the plane watching across the highway? I sure hope their priority uploads get the same kind of leeway.
I wouldn't hold the fact that Royal was able to get inside and thus had wireless internet at his disposal against him, but he clipped one of the engines... Sometimes I think we get so picky that it ruins the niceness of just having the shots.
Maiznblu_757 From United States of America, joined Mar 2002, 5112 posts, RR: 52 Reply 8, posted (5 years 10 months 2 weeks 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 3674 times:
Quoting QANTAS077 (Reply 8): If I lived in Seattle I would've got the first shot too mate... Wink Royal, you might want to change the info though because its certainly not a 787-831.
IIR it wasnt Royal that uploaded the photo. It was sent via phone to Andrew Hunt. Blame him, not Royal for the info error.
Clickhappy From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 9444 posts, RR: 72 Reply 11, posted (5 years 10 months 2 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 3592 times:
AIRLINERS.NET CREW PHOTO SCREENER
Thanks for the kind words. Was tough to get a decent shot. 15,000 people will do that to you. The event was def. not photog friendly.
I got the customer code wrong, nobodys fault but mine. I have asked the editors to fix it.
AndrewUber From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 2528 posts, RR: 44 Reply 12, posted (5 years 10 months 2 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 3591 times:
Clickhappy From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 9444 posts, RR: 72 Reply 13, posted (5 years 10 months 2 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 3573 times:
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Clickhappy From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 9444 posts, RR: 72 Reply 15, posted (5 years 10 months 2 weeks 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 3571 times:
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flight deck mock-up.
After the rollout we went to the 787 Gallery for a private reception. This is where customers can pick colors, seats, fabrics, and fixtures for their planes, it is pretty cool, not like anything I have ever seen before.
747438 From UK - England, joined Jan 2007, 820 posts, RR: 6 Reply 16, posted (5 years 10 months 2 weeks 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 3495 times:
Well, what a surprise !!
The only post that actually judges it correctly has been deleted, no doubt in order to protect someone's fragile ego !!
OK, it's a new plane, but the shot is dark, not level and a lot of the plane is obscured.
ZakHH From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 17, posted (5 years 10 months 2 weeks 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 3448 times:
Fragile ego? Maybe we should all relax a bit. I guess neither Royal nor Johan would deny that the picture is not matching a.net's usual standards. But then, the goal of this project was to show the first ever (not best ever) picture of a 787 on a.net. So I guess the primary target was achieved.
Looking at the other press fotos of that event, you will see they look as dark as Royal's. So unless all photographers at the event lost their skills at the same time, I guess it would be pretty safe to assume that the conditions were really lousy, and almost no one would have managed to get a better shot.
On a lighter note: all this will be perfect fuel to the tin-foil conspiracy that in fact there is no dreamliner, and this is all a big fake by Boeing...
Granite From UK - Scotland, joined May 1999, 5542 posts, RR: 67 Reply 18, posted (5 years 10 months 2 weeks 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 3428 times:
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Hi all
Image perfectly acceptable.
Quite a few uploaded already but unfortunately 2mp phone camera snaps not acceptable. After watching a bit of the launch video on the BBC this morning I wonder just how many of the crowd who were snapping away like mad, from a million feet away, will be uploading.
Well done Royal. A few weeks in the planning even if I was a week early
Globalpics From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2005, 216 posts, RR: 2 Reply 20, posted (5 years 10 months 2 weeks 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 3401 times:
Well done Royal, as usual at the right place at the right time. Sorry to be a little different here but I think the cockpit windows look awful, the rest looks sweet though. Remember everyone, you saw it first here, kudos to a.net and Royal.
Sulman From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2004, 2028 posts, RR: 35 Reply 21, posted (5 years 10 months 2 weeks 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 3391 times:
Quoting Globalpics (Reply 20): Well done Royal, as usual at the right place at the right time. Sorry to be a little different here but I think the cockpit windows look awful, the rest looks sweet though. Remember everyone, you saw it first here, kudos to a.net and Royal.
I'm not convinced the raised frame is the finished design. Some photographs and comments I read from the rollout suggest that the aircraft was fastened together (literally!) quickly for the rollout - look around and you'll find some images that hint at this.
INNflight From Austria, joined Apr 2004, 3765 posts, RR: 62 Reply 22, posted (5 years 10 months 2 weeks 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 3357 times:
Congrats Royal on the first shot, you've been quick, and so has Andy of course.
Re. the general design of the plane, I really like it and think it looks quite good, but the flight deck windows are just plain ugly....!
KLM772ER From Germany, joined May 2006, 615 posts, RR: 19 Reply 23, posted (5 years 10 months 2 weeks 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 3331 times:
Congrats Royal!
Nice shot and you got great angle too! I like the way the nose looks!
Quoting 747438 (Reply 16): OK, it's a new plane, but the shot is dark, not level and a lot of the plane is obscured.
I think in this case: first photo ever one should not think about any standards. It is a great picture and I am very happy we were able to see it here so fast!
Danny From Poland, joined Apr 2002, 3482 posts, RR: 2 Reply 24, posted (5 years 10 months 2 weeks 6 days ago) and read 3298 times:
Quoting 747438 (Reply 16): Well, what a surprise !!
The only post that actually judges it correctly has been deleted, no doubt in order to protect someone's fragile ego !!
OK, it's a new plane, but the shot is dark, not level and a lot of the plane is obscured.
Fully agree. There are many better photos available already (see threads on civil aviation) yet airlines accepted the one submitted by its own screener even if it does not meet any of a.net standards. Congrats Royal!
25 AndyHunt: Uh, Royal did not send it to me via phone I was about to go to work this morning and the email came in and I added it. Quality could have been better,
26 NIKV69: You remember that sentence.. "Common shots, hard to get accepted. Rare shots, easy to get accepted." Can't believe the jelaousy here. Relax everyone.
28 QANTAS077: seems the old boy had the right idea...
29 Eadster: First one there has two dirty great big dust spot in it!!! But great photos indeed. Either way, its a BRAND new type, the photos belong... with maybe
30 AndyHunt: Dirt has been removed.........we act quickly eh Andrew
31 Sulman: Beautiful colour on the latest ones. I'm running a sweepstake on when the first "Oh no not another 787 picture" thread starts - who wants in?
32 ZakHH: Why are you adressing me with that? I said nothing else...
33 BrianW999: Now, now children !! Uuuummmmm........taken 07.07.07. ......... http://www.jetphotos.net/img/2/8/6/3/64322_1183969368.jpg or...... http://www.jetphot
34 AndrewUber: Uuuummmmmm.... couldn't have been taken 07.07.07 - see the crowd of people and the reflection of the hangar doors? That would be the rollout ceremony
35 BrianW999: Possibly so, I wasn't there......but they were all added on 09.07.07, same as Anet, so there wasn't really any need for the smartass comment about "t
36 Eadster: Not really as it seems that after clearing my cache and re-loading the image, both dust spots are still standing proud! Now as much as I love seeing
37 Je89_w: Stunning shots everyone, thanks for posting them quickly! My jaw dropped to the floor when I saw those! Great shots KC!
38 BrianW999: Why is it that I'm getting a nagging feeling that we're heading down the "A380 what should be allowed / shouldn't be allowed " path here ?
40 INNflight: Some guys are way toooo serious about a website here
41 AndrewUber: OK first of all - your data is flat out wrong. I won't post a link here, but the "Brand X" Photo ID is # 6013988. And if you go there and look it up,
43 Jid: Andrew, you are the one that is wrong. At the time Brian made his post the data he quoted was correct. However that data was incorrect as we know so
44 EK20: More pics of the roll-out here on flickr. http://www.flickr.com/groups/boeing_787/pool/ Not sure I like those engine covers though.
45 BrianW999: At no time have I disagreed that Royal was first, indeed he has my congratulations for that achievement. My post was pointed at the totally unneccess
46 Clickhappy: I am requesting that this thread be locked. No need for any Airliners.net swipes or Jetphotos.net swipes. We were all at the event and had a great tim
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