gothamspotter From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 586 posts, RR: 0 Posted (1 year 2 months 2 weeks 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 7902 times:
Boeing on Friday celebrated completion of its 1,000th 777 twin-engine, wide-body airliner. The 777-300ER will soon be delivered to Emirates as A6-EGO, and bears commemorative "1,000th 777" titles on the rear of the fuselage.
mattcawby From United States of America, joined Mar 2006, 199 posts, RR: 13 Reply 2, posted (1 year 2 months 2 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 7682 times:
cf6ppe From United States of America, joined Mar 2006, 306 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (1 year 2 months 2 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 7325 times:
Assembling One Thousand of any transport category aircraft is a significant accomplishment.
It would be interesting to compare the total weights - OWE - of those programs with such production numbers.
Great job Boeing... May the T7's continue to orbit the earth for many future years....
and bless those big GE90s that give the T7s the ability to get up near the angels....
AirIndia From United Arab Emirates, joined Jan 2001, 1545 posts, RR: 1 Reply 4, posted (1 year 2 months 2 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 7242 times:
flightsimer From United States of America, joined Aug 2009, 409 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (1 year 2 months 2 weeks 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 7073 times:
And lets see, there are what 997 in service? Two written off and wasnt there an early -200 scrapped as well? either way at least 95% of them are all still flying.
RIXrat From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 773 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (1 year 2 months 2 weeks 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 7020 times:
Those 777s still flying would be closer to 99.7%, if my calculations are correct.
oksman From Brazil, joined Apr 2011, 105 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (1 year 2 months 2 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 5817 times:
Quoting flightsimer (Reply 5): And lets see, there are what 997 in service? Two written off and wasnt there an early -200 scrapped as well? either way at least 95% of them are all still flying.
I think that PP-VRD (ex-RG) was scrapped, but PP-VRC is still stored somewhere (FRA?), not in service also. That would make 996 in service, or 99,6%.
WAC From United States of America, joined Nov 2008, 253 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (1 year 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 4533 times:
777 the real beauty of the skies...I hope it is long long log time before the skies are emptied of this truly elegant empress! Congrat Boeing, and EK!!
seabosdca From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 4277 posts, RR: 4 Reply 14, posted (1 year 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 4291 times:
The best part is that the 777 program shows no signs of slowing down.
The 757 reached 1,050. The 767 is at 1,022 and counting, but won't make it too much farther as a civilian airliner. But with the 777X, the 777 is pretty much guaranteed 1,500 and has a very good shot at 2,000.
As a Seattle native who is partial to Boeing I hope the 787 program turns out the same way.
Most gorgeous aircraft: Tu-204-300, 757-200, A330-200, 777-200LR, 787-8
N471WN From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 1182 posts, RR: 1 Reply 17, posted (1 year 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 3534 times:
Quoting oksman (Reply 9): I think that PP-VRD (ex-RG) was scrapped, but PP-VRC is still stored somewhere (FRA?), not in service also. That would make 996 in service, or 99,6%.
Only 4 777's have left the world. Two were involved in non-fatal accidents (he British Air and Egypt Air incidents) and two have been scrapped----these were 26917 (8) and 27109 (19) and only 1 777 is in storage at Wallops Island awaitng a new owner and that is 27108 (17)
This is a remarkable achievement in two ways----no aircraft type I know of has hit 1,000 with not one human life lost and to have only 1 aircraft looking for a home is well simply amazing....
kaitak From Ireland, joined Aug 1999, 11952 posts, RR: 37 Reply 18, posted (1 year 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 3475 times:
Quoting N471WN (Reply 17): This is a remarkable achievement in two ways----no aircraft type I know of has hit 1,000 with not one human life lost and to have only 1 aircraft looking for a home is well simply amazing....
Quite true; a remarkable achievement - and long may it last. There's plenty of life left in the 777 and hopefully, Boeing (and EK!) will be launching the 777-8X/9X later this year.
MEA-707 From Netherlands, joined Nov 1999, 4117 posts, RR: 37 Reply 19, posted (1 year 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 3041 times:
Quoting N471WN (Reply 17): This is a remarkable achievement in two ways----no aircraft type I know of has hit 1,000 with not one human life lost
The Embraer 145/135 production line has built about 1140 without a single life lost of passengers and crew. But up to debate is if you have to count that a mid air by a 135BJ made a GOL 737 crash, at the time there were just 970 built.
Speaking of which, this september 2006 crash was the first fatal 737NG crash, at the time there were about 2050 built
nobody has ever died from hard work, but why take the risk?
flightsimer From United States of America, joined Aug 2009, 409 posts, RR: 1 Reply 20, posted (1 year 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 2325 times:
dairbus From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 587 posts, RR: 2 Reply 23, posted (1 year 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 1904 times:
I visited Everett on February 7th and saw on the assembly line during the Boeing tour. It's great to see the 777 program reach this milestone. Although it's an apple to oranges comparison, it's interesting the it took almost 25 years for the 747 to reach 1000 examples but the 777 has done it in less than 18.
I have visited the Everett plant five times now. My first visit was back in May of 1993 and I saw the 1000th 747 being built, 9V-SMU for Singapore Airlines. As an aviation enthusiast, I am happy to have seen the 1000th example of the two great aircraft being built almost 20 years apart.
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