747-800 up
 

Flightglobal reporting the 747-800 flew today.


DD

she sure is pretty!
 

Nice to see B748 on a FlightAware screen!

-drl

Here it is:

FlightAware > Boeing Commercial Airplane Group #501

Here is video of the takeoff:
Watch: SkyKING aerials of Boeing's 747-8 first flight takeoff | KING 5 TV | Seattle News, Local News, Breaking News, Weather | Related

another good one here, too:
 

YouTube - 747-8 First Flight

A live webcast of the landing is scheduled at 4:15pm PT (about 15 minutes from now).

Boeing 747-8 Freighter First Flight

Yawn. :zzz::zzz::zzz::zzz::zzz:

I didn't find it a yawn at all. I bet thousands of workers and engineers who go it into the air didn't either. Still , you are entitled to your free speech. I struggled to find any video of it on the multiple boeing-run websites, so I was grateful to see it here, thanks chaps !

It is the 747-8 (-8F to be exact) not a 747-800.

Confusingly it's actually a B747-8R7F, the Lufthansa models will be B747-830s, hence I suspect it will become knownas the sereies 800 over time. You're not seriously suggesting we call it the "Dash Eight" because that's been taken, along with the 748.

The B777 IGW isn't commonly used either thses days, as we all defaulted to 200ER.

We don't like change.

Quote ''Confusingly it's actually a B747-8R7F, the Lufthansa models will be B747-830s, hence I suspect it will become knownas the sereies 800 over time. You're not seriously suggesting we call it the "Dash Eight" because that's been taken, along with the 748.''


It's alredy refered to as the 'Dash Eight', if you were watching the live feed on the boeing website last night you would have heard it refered to as the 'Dash Eight'.

The ICAO code for the Boeing 747-8 is B748

The code 748 hasn't already been taken ,you may be thinking of the Hawker Siddeley HS-748 which has the ICAO code A748.

The reason its called the -8 is due to it having the same engine type GE NX as the B787 and also common cockpit design.

Tony

Why they call their new basic models -8 can just be answered by Boeing I guess. I doubt it has anything to do with any 787 commonalities and one thing for sure - the 747-8 flight deck has no similarities with the 787s, it is actually modeled after the 747-400 flight deck with some little changes to the eye and some major changes below the surface.
And that is done for a good reason.

How far back would we have to go, if indeed it has happened, to have two first flights of Boeing products in as many months ?

Quote '' I doubt it has anything to do with any 787 commonalities and one thing for sure - the 747-8 flight deck has no similarities with the 787.''

Wrong.

''Boeing had been studying the market feasibility of a new 747 for some time, working with operators to establish their requirements for an incrementally larger 747 to continue the profitability of current 747 fleets. By working together with customers and applying the innovative new technologies of the 787 Dreamliner, Boeing was able to create the 747-8 family. In fact, the designation 747-8 was chosen to show the technology connection between the 787 and the new 747''.

The cockpit will be based on that of the -400 but will have technology used in the B787.

Boeing vice-president 747 programmes Jeff Peace says two to four days of differences training will be necessary for 747-400 pilots to use the new aircraft’s electronic checklists, cursor controls and upgraded flight management computer.

Well Tony,
if you read your own post you're talking about a common 'cockpit design' and that's what I was questioning. I did write however that it does incorporate 787 technology.
And the 2-4 day conversion course from -400 will talk for itself.
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R7 is Cargolux (launch customer) internal "Boeing code" (Like BA is -36, AF -28)