787 Archives - Economy Class & Beyond

Airplane Art – Qatar Airways Boeing 787-8 at Hamad International (Doha)

05/08/2018 by Kevincm

It's Sunday again, so it must me time for some more airplane art This week, we have a a Qatar Airways Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, being pushed back by a tug at its home base of Hamad International Airport, Doha. Qatar Airways operate a fleet of 30 Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft - used across the Qatar Airways network. These support the many other types in the Qatar … [Read more...]

Airplane Art – Scoot Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner at Singapore Changi

22/10/2017 by Kevincm

It's Sunday again, so it must be time for some more airplane art. This week, waiting its next turn as it being loaded is a Scoot Boeing 787 Dreamliner at its home base of Singapore Changi International Airport. Scoot (the low-cost offshoot of Singapore Airlines) operates both current variants of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner - the smaller 787-8 and the larger 787-9, … [Read more...]

Airplane Art – British Airways Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner

20/04/2014 by Kevincm

It's Easter Sunday, and its time for an Airplane art special. This Sunday, it's a British Airway Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner arriving at it's home base at London Heathrow Airport (shot from a BA 787-8. Very meta). The images are clickable if you want to see a larger version – and yes you can keep them for your desktops! More airplane art next week! Want to keep … [Read more...]

Airplane Art – Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner

22/12/2013 by Kevincm

It's Sunday, so it must be time for some more airplane art. This week, it's an Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner, coming in to touch down at London Heathrow Airport. The image is clickable if you want to see a larger version – and yes you can keep them for your desktops! More airplane art next week! Want to keep up with me at GhettoIFE? Join me either by … [Read more...]

787 Watch: Batteries in the ANA 787 incident showed signs of swelling

20/02/2013 by Kevincm

Time to turn our attention back to the 787, and to the issues with batteries that the class is having. Investigators in Japan have been analysing the lithium-ion battery that powers the auxiliary power unit (APU) have revealed swelling in two of the eight cells - as well the main battery aboard the plane (also Li-ion) failed and overheated too. Investigators have been … [Read more...]

787: Two Test Flights… Flights “Uneventful”

11/02/2013 by Kevincm

With a single frame cleared to fly Boeing 787 ZA005 - part of the cadre of 787's used for testing the fleet have had two test flights, all took off and landed without an issue The first test flight took place on 9th February, and departed from Boeing Field with a crew of 13 on board – all Boeing pilots and flight test personnel. The flight lasted 2 hours and 19 minutes … [Read more...]

A Dreamliner takes to the air..

07/02/2013 by Kevincm

Boeing have managed to rescue one of its grounded 787's today, forming flight Boeing 382 from Fort Worth Meacham International airport to Paine Field in Everett, Washington according to Flight Aware A bit of digging indicates that this plane was stuck at a paint shop at For Worth Meacham and was due to be ferried back to Boeing - just before the grounding of the class took … [Read more...]

Boeing goes on the defensive again over 787 batteries

30/01/2013 by Kevincm

Boeing it seems is on the full defensive on the use of Lithium-Ion Batteries in its 787 Dreamliner plane in a rebuttal from Elon Musk (of Tesla Cars and SpaceX) who states the batteries shipped to Boeing are "fundamentally unsafe". As you're all aware, the 787 Dreamliners are all sitting on the ground after two battery incidents with the aircraft. In the FlightGlobal … [Read more...]

ANA and JAL 787 Groundings to continue

25/01/2013 by Kevincm

It's time to return to the prickly issue of the Boeing 787 and the grounding of the new aircraft. With the US US National Transport Safety Board still not able to point to a root cause of the battery pack failures in the Japan Airlines 787 (which lead to an small on-board fire in Boston)and the All Nippon Airlines 787 (that failed in-flight over Japan, leading to the type … [Read more...]