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Boeing Takes A Dreamliner Vertical While Rehearsing For The Paris Air Show
You need to watch Boeing’s crack team of display pilots put this 787-9 Dreamliner through its paces during a practice flight preparing for the upcoming Paris Air Show. (planelopnik.com) עוד...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Vertical, you know, 45°.
Living near CHS, were Boeing has it's second 787 factory, it's common to see a 787 doing a steep climb takeoff. I've seen it several times as they test new planes not even fully painted with airline markings.
Some of us Po folk don't like the noise either. The rich might be paying for tickets on your shiny airplane so just say thanks for fly bla-bla airline and smile.
Perhaps the headline should not have used the giveaway "crack". It can have that effect.
Who would have thought that a 707 Dash-80, driven by Tex Johnston, could do a Barrel Roll in 1955 in Seattle? I think the newest member of the Boeing family, the 787 Dreamliner, is more than capable of doing a Vertical 60 years later.
Sweet! Boeing built an aircraft that can bank left and right...oh and take off vertical for for few hundred feet! Sorry to burst your bubbles but all certified airplanes can do that. At a different scale of course
Actually, an Airbus wouldn't allow the plane to do that since the flight computers have various protections that would kick in. They do have a "Direct Law" mode but I don't know if I pilot can easily force the computers in that mode.