Clickhappy From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 9444 posts, RR: 72 Posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 18946 times:
Longhaulheavy From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 402 posts, RR: 2 Reply 2, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 18734 times:
5 passenger windows back from the front, on each side, there's an orange-colored insert with something sticking out of it. What is this? Extra instrumentation for the test flight?
MD11LuxuryLinr From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 1385 posts, RR: 16 Reply 3, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 18700 times:
Bronko From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 805 posts, RR: 12 Reply 4, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 18693 times:
A friend of mine, who does not upload to ANet anymore, took this shot. It really shows off the sheer size of this machine, when you look at the pilots. Also note that the PIC and lead pilot of the 777-200LR program is female.
See reply #8 for a clickable thumbnail that will open the full size version, highly suggested.
SNATH From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 3232 posts, RR: 24 Reply 6, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 18660 times:
Clickhappy,
Thanks for this!!!
Tony
Nikon: we don't want more pixels, we want better pixels.
Gigneil From United States of America, joined Nov 2002, 16215 posts, RR: 88 Reply 7, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 18645 times:
SNATH From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 3232 posts, RR: 24 Reply 8, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 18640 times:
For convenience (click on it for the larger size):
Bronko, I hope you don't mind!
Tony
[Edited 2005-03-09 04:25:42]
Nikon: we don't want more pixels, we want better pixels.
Bronko From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 805 posts, RR: 12 Reply 9, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 18622 times:
Don't mind at all. When I wrote the post, in the preview page the photo was compressed to fit the page, and clickable to see the full size image.
Hiflyer From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 2118 posts, RR: 4 Reply 10, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 18602 times:
beautiful aircraft but isn't this just a taxi test and not flight? may want to rename the header
SNATH From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 3232 posts, RR: 24 Reply 11, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 18580 times:
Bronko,
I just e-mailed you with the details...
Tony
Nikon: we don't want more pixels, we want better pixels.
Gigneil From United States of America, joined Nov 2002, 16215 posts, RR: 88 Reply 12, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 18574 times:
SNATH From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 3232 posts, RR: 24 Reply 13, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 18560 times:
Quoting Hiflyer (Reply 10): but isn't this just a taxi test and not flight?
Looks like a flight to me!
The plane left from Everett and landed at Boeing field, where the pictures seem to have been taken.
Tony
Nikon: we don't want more pixels, we want better pixels.
AeroWesty From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 18839 posts, RR: 64 Reply 14, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 18558 times:
Quoting Hiflyer (Reply 10): isn't this just a taxi test and not flight? may want to rename the header
From the remarks on one of the photos:
N60659 (cn 33782/519) The first 777-200LR, arriving at BFI after its maiden flight from Paine Field. The GE-90 engine, the most powerful in use today, is what made this aircraft possible.
Jacobin777 From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 14968 posts, RR: 61 Reply 15, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 18529 times:
there was a short 10-15 second video clip on Fox News of the 777LR taking off, it was a beautiful sight to see
Malaysia From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 3183 posts, RR: 0 Reply 16, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 18396 times:
Sorry I just couldnt resist, I made the textures all today just in time when the LR made its first flight
[Edited 2005-03-09 04:51:34]
There Are Those Who Believe That There May Yet Be Other Airlines Who Even Now Fight To Survive Beyond The Heavens
Hiflyer From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 2118 posts, RR: 4 Reply 17, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 18360 times:
dang press reported it as taxi tests...not as a ferry from renton to home field...beautiful!!! in this case love being wrong!!! great job boeing.....
can those motors get any bigger? grin.
beautiful bird...just beautiful. thanks everyone for the pix....
LN-MOW From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 1896 posts, RR: 15 Reply 18, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 18324 times:
The 777 is made at Everett - not Renton - and the flight was from Everett to Boeing Field.
A good turnout by the local spotters - and special guest Mr. Ling of YVR! A gorgeous day with temperatures in the sixties ... boy, the weather gods have messed up this year .....
Flybynight From Norway, joined Jul 2003, 992 posts, RR: 3 Reply 20, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 18052 times:
I saw her at Boeing Field while driving south on I-5 around 1 PM this afternoon. Are those engines even larger?
Wouldn't it have been cool to have a picture of the LR with the errupting Mount St. Helens this afternoon check-out the slideshow, imagine flying next to that
BOEING747400 From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 319 posts, RR: 0 Reply 21, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 17924 times:
Engines look too dangerously close to the ground! How high from the surface are they really? The wings ought to be raised higher!
OldAeroGuy From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 3206 posts, RR: 66 Reply 22, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 17676 times:
Quoting Longhaulheavy (Reply 2): 5 passenger windows back from the front, on each side, there's an orange-colored insert with something sticking out of it. What is this? Extra instrumentation for the test flight?
It's a flight test total pressure probe added to check the ship system total pressure probes. It's also shielded so it works well at high angles of attack for stall testing.
Airplane design is easy, the difficulty is getting them to fly - Barnes Wallis
Starlionblue From Hong Kong, joined Feb 2004, 15870 posts, RR: 66 Reply 24, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 17424 times:
Engines look too dangerously close to the ground! How high from the surface are they really? The wings ought to be raised higher!
First of all, I hope you're joking. Secondly, they are not really that close. Thirdly, you'd think the Boeing designers and engineers have a clue.
"There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots." - from Citadel by John Ringo
25 Greaser: It looks like a 777 because it IS a 777. Raked wingtips are the most obvious differences.
26 Sabenapilot: Engine ground clearance is only an issue if the distance between the main landing gear and the engine would be greater than is the case here. It does
29 Mrniji: This Boeing Livery looks awesome... some careers could take it as modell to relaunch their boring liveries
30 SK A340: http://www.aftonbladet.se/atv/player.html?catID=10&clipID=227 Movie only in Swedish, but the only thing she says is what's different compared to the r
31 Erikwilliam: that´s one big engine, is it the same as the older 772/773??? Wich is the major modification besides the range in this 772-lr, wings, engines??? nice
32 Greaser: Aside from having a variant of the GE-90 family which so happens to have the world's most powerful and largest engines, it is basically a 777-200ER o
33 KFLLCFII: Engine size difference between the LR and the ER: Amazing!
34 SNATH: Actually, I believe that El Al has Rolls Royce engines on their B777s, which are smaller than the GE90s that some of the ERs have. Tony
35 IL76TD: For all those that like to talk about how big the A345/346 engines are... ...they don't hold a candle to these babies now those are some HUGE engines
36 Tjwgrr: Here 'tis: ------------------------------- Aircraft ID BOE001 Aircraft Type B772 Owner/Operator Boeing Commercial Airplane Group Flight Plan Received
37 SK A340: Should Boeing start an airline? They sure took off and landed on time! /Micke
39 SNATH: The A340 has 4 of them 4 longhaul! Not for long, as the A350 will replace the A342s/A343s with 2 engines 2 make money. Tony
40 DAYflyer: Brings back memories of Kai-Tak and the engine strike photos. There are a few pilots there who would have appreciated this engineering attribute of t
42 Sabenapilot: For its ultra longhaul and for high capacity planes however, the market leader won't bet on reliability alone, but also on redundancy....
43 SNATH: The reason A went with 4 engines on the A380 and the A345 has nothing to do with redundancy. In the case of the A380, it's not currently technologica
44 Sabenapilot: SNATH- Like you say, it's a play on words, don't take it too seriously.... I think everybody is perfectly away of the reasons for 4 engines on the A38
45 SNATH: Oh, don't worry, it's hard to take anything on this board seriously! As for your comment on you preferring seeing two engines under the plane's wing
46 DeltaWings: Wow; those engines are huge!! Looks better then any 4-engined aircraft ~DeltaWings
47 Tockeyhockey: Why should they? The A340 has 4 of them 4 longhaul! twice as many engines, twice as many things to go wrong! most catastrophic airline accidents happe
48 Sabenapilot: Oh me too, I will be the last person to step aside in case my flight is on a twin only, because I know I should be perfectly safe too... However, I h
49 OldAeroGuy: It's the trailing cone for a remote static pressure system to measure flight static pressure away from airframe/engine influences. For recording flig
50 PyroGX41487: twice as many engines, twice as many things to go wrong! most catastrophic airline accidents happen because of a failure in engines (think iowa city).
51 SNATH: Hey Sabena, Oh, I believe you. And, despite feeling safe on twins, I'm also getting unconfortable with some of the ETOPS extension proposals. I think
52 JBirdAV8r: Eh. The 777's catch phrase is more like 2 Safe 2 Need 2 Extra
53 Dimsum: The 777's catch phrase is more like 2 Safe 2 Need 2 Extra oh geez, this could go on forever! LOL! good one, guys!
54 Boeing7E7: Those are some big damn engines. Holy crap!
55 Jderden777: hahaha nice one jon! the LR is such a sweet airplane....how can you not like those huge engines....congrats to boeing!
56 Vorticity: I watched the take-off live on a webcast, it was kind of funny listening to the tower chatter... several times re-iterated the point that he was clear
57 Pensacolaguy: Congratulations Boeing on the first successful 777-200LR flight. The engines do look amazing. What is the comparison in size, between the engines on t
58 Tockeyhockey: I think you mean Sioux City, and it was a THREE engined DC-10 that had it's #2 engine shoot fragments into the HYDRAULIC systems that caused the FLIG
59 Erikwilliam: will there ever be a 773LR or there´s no need for it???? This GE-90 is the same the powers the A-380 right?!?! thx for the replies
60 Vorticity: No, they are not the same engines. Engine options on the 380 are the RR Trent 900 and the GE/P&W GP-7200.
61 Starlionblue: This GE-90 is the same the powers the A-380 right?!?! The A380 has far weaker engines than the 777. Four engined planes have much less power per weigh
62 Starlionblue: To expand on the previous, the A380-800 has powerplants in the 80000-85000 lb class. The weakest GE90s for on the 777-200 are 75000 lb thrust units, b
63 777WT: It's the 777-300ER that has the most powerful jet enigne. The GE90-115B which puts out 115,300 lb of rated thrust. Testing have shown it can put out
64 Starlionblue: 777WT, yes I got it wrong and edited it, but it seems this forum just a very fast paced place.
65 ChrisH: Arent the PW engines on Koreans 773s even stronger?
66 Aerofan: so is the industry moving to a two engine design then? Does this mean tha SRB will have to eat crow and we will see a 777 in VS colours? Oh I wish tha
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