Boeing 747-8 Test Flight

The performance of the airplane (747-8F) in terms of increasing revenue payload from the 747-400, were doing pretty good in terms of meeting our goals.

The weight of the airplane has been a little heavy as typically at this stage of the program it is but through changing some of the maximum landing and zero fuel weights weve been able to keep very strong revenue payload lines, so were doing really well there. From a performance side in terms of our cash operating costs our tonne-mile costs and the fuel burn, were meeting and exceeding what were asked to do, so were feeling really good about that.

We worked for a long time to hold the original schedule and really a few things came and hit us all at once. One being of course the IAM strike, along with that over the past year or so, the amount of change that has occurred in the airplane in terms of making sure we get the performance, so ensuring we get the aerodynamic performance to get the fuel burn [targets] we ended up changing more of the parts than we originally thought which drove more change in the supply chain. When the time came to getting the parts in the factory, it became pretty obvious we werent gonna make it.

Some of it had to do with competition for resources we ended up getting the resources a little later, so it took a while to train and get people up to speed, but theyre up to speed now and were doing really well and the big bones engineerings done.

Its not without its challenges, but for the most part, the people who have put the airplane together so far, the pieces theyve put together, its actually fitting together much better than the 747-400.

On the [747-8] Intercontinental, were right now in the engineering phase of that, starting to release the engineering [drawings], and then well have to get that into the supply chain so once they get done churning through the freighter, theyre gonna start doing that [on the 747-8I].

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Boeing
• 747-8
• aviation

[snake84z]

i like the plane and i like the music :)

[LufthansaA343]

@BaghdadSon78 this makes me laugh :D you started the war you silly goose!

[BaghdadSon78]

@LufthansaA343 Am I? check your self before writting here and stop insulting ppl when writting, because its only reflects your negative personality nothing else, try to discuss as normal ppl without making war around the world...

[BaghdadSon78]

@jimdep333 hahaha I see you falling down...hahaha dont need to deal with its done alrady

[TonyFirelli]

Until either company(Airbus/Boeing) makes an SST then we can talk who's best. Hell it's 21st century and we don't have one but in 70's we did? >.>

[jimdep333]

@BaghdadSon78 We are the best. Deal with it!!!!!!

[TheWarPlanet]

@ALAJOHNSTONE Yeah i agree with you.

[ALAJOHNSTONE]

That was funny. They were cheering like they were not really sure if the plane would take off or not.

[LufthansaA343]

@kj762aa i know that its two words...i am just being stupid. cause seriously. i spelled one word wrong...on the internet ?!?! wow i dont know how i could live any longer...

[kj762aa]

@LufthansaA343 its two words.