From http://www.boeing.com/global/italy/n...etando-747lcf/

http://www.boeing.com/global/italy/i...ews/747lcf.jpg

Jack Conroy certainly started something:D :D :D :D :D :D :ok: :ok:
Bless him.
Be lucky
David

Seems like it would be a lot cheaper to just manufacture the fuselage at Boeing than to have to build a special airplane and fly this stuff around. Must be politics.

Roadtrip,
I see you don't work in the industry...
This is common practice in Europe for over 30 years.
Look up aircraft names like Guppy, Super Guppy, and Beluga.

I'm not well informed about the extent of this practice in the States, as far as aircraft are concerned, but space hardware has also been hauled all over the US for ages.

The beast is now with Boeing in USA arrived as Boeing 876
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BOE876
Hope it helps
Be lucky
David

Roadtrip,

Boeing is moving toward being an assembler rather than building all the components. They sold off much of their Wichita operation, now called Spirit Aerospace or some such. Spirit makes major assemblies (say 737 fuselages) and ships them to the Seattle area for final assembly.

This is also the case with the 787. Major parts of the plane are built in Japan under a risk-sharing arrangement which reduces Boeing's investment in the development costs.

This isn't a new thing. Shorts in Northern Ireland builds major portions of Canadian Bombardier aircraft. The Irish operation is now owned by Bombardier and has been Northern Ireland's largest manufacturing employer.

I wonder if they will make it available to customers??
Allegedly you can buy a Beluga if you have enough Euros.
Volga-Dnepr perhaps??
Be lucky
David

To coin a phrase, there's nothing new under the Sun.

During WWII, the wood wings of Howard aircraft (& probably many others too) were subcontracted to and built by piano manufacturers. :ok:

I can't quite imagine anybody else actually wanting to buy one.
Only Airbus and Boeing haul such huge-size low-weight items on a regular basis.
Of course one can easily think of other "outsize" stuff, but only on an incidental basis, and then you would lease an An-225, or indeed an LCF or Beluga, not buy it.

Oh my god it is so ugly!

Uncoventional aeroplane builders:

One would guess that most of the cabinet-makers in France were building aeroplanes during WW I. At the peak, the French built 25,000 aircraft in a single year during the Great War. Or so a placard at the Air & Space museum at Le Bourget says. I wonder how many of them flew on second-hand engines inherited from "bent" machines.

Interesting question. I've never really delved into the WW I details. It certainly happened in WW II, in particular in Germany towards the end.

And in the UK as well. They wanted experienced wood-workers.

But going back onto the thread, I can't help thinking that the 747 LCF reminds me of my ex-missus - except that the plane is a bit slimmer.

MDLB

Boeing 767
 

Does anyone know if Boeing is still producing the 767-200ER or if they would if a customer requested it?

Although the last 762ER built for an airline customer was a good few years ago - Continental, I believe, in 2000 - the 762 has been built for the Italian and Japanese air forces for "AWACS"/tanker usage, so I think it could still be built if an airline really wanted one.

you thinking of getting one?:)

Boeing Stages 7x7 Fly-in
 

Boeing honored its 7-Series family of airplanes with a special show featuring customers' Boeing-produced airplanes today in Seattle.

The airplanes on display at Boeing Field included an Omega Air 707; AirTran Airways 717; FedEx 727; Alaska Airlines 737-800; Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 Flying Test Bed 747-200; Continental Airlines 757; Delta Air Lines 767; and Air France 777-300ER (Extended Range). In addition, the Boeing 747-400 Dreamlifter was on static display.

Each airplane -- the 707 through the 777 -- took off from Paine Field, adjacent to Boeing's Everett, Wash., facility, and landed at Boeing Field in Seattle -- in sequence of airplane model numbers matching to time, beginning with the 707 landing at 7:07 p.m. Pacific time. This special display was part of a Boeing-sponsored event held at The Museum of Flight as part of the weekend's activities for the 787 Premiere.

797 ?
 

are Boeing designing/building/testing a '797'
:confused:


just wondering if any one knows?




should this thread be in SLF?

I have no idea. My guess is that the Spectators Gallery (also in Misc Forums) will know the answer.

Boeing 777F & 747-8F Update
 

If anyone is interested in a read...

http://fleetbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/...7-200f-747-8f/

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