EK A380 Spotting at JFK
With A6-EDA now officially in revenue service now with Emirates, spotting super jumbos in the US just got a whole lot easier. EK201 (to JFK) and EK202 (to DXB) are being operated Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. Dubai to New York leaves UAE at 8:30 AM local and arrives at JFK around 2:15 PM. The return leg has the A380 leaving JFK at 11pm and touching down in Dubai at 7:45 PM the following day.
In other Emirates news...
It looks as though the airline is still actively considering the 747-8I and Tim Clark introduces the world to the Boeing 777-300ERX that would compete with the 'brochure performance' of the A350-1000. This is an interesting development, though it's worth asking if the market will responds like it did with the A350 as A330 refresh. As for 747-8I, it could potentially be a really good way to add capacity 360-400 seats at a time, especially if A380s aren't arriving as quickly as Emirates would like.
Olympic Flights
A Singapore Airlines A380 will be making appearances in Beijing all week ferrying traffic for the Olympics. Notably absent in China this week are both the A380 and 787. ANA (ZA007), Air China (ZA008) and China Southern (MSN031) were supposed to be flying new Airbus and Boeing aircraft this week in time for the Summer games to begin on the 8th. 787-8 and A380-800 on 08-08-08, see a pattern?
CRJ1000 Sees Daylight
A lucky spotter captured C-FRJX out on the ramp on July 17 in Mirabel, though the photo was only posted on August 1st. This is the first time we've seen the CRJ1000 fully painted in blue and silver since she was undergoing assembly during the spring.
777F Flight Testing
After ten days of ground testing at BFI, the 777F flew five test flights last week for a total of about ten hours in the sky. According to FlightAware, most of the testing had the 777F departing and arriving Boeing Field, though N5020K visited Moses Lake on July 28.
Sitting Still
I pretty much missed July in Washington with Farnborough and Oshkosh, so now it's time for me to sit down and write. I have at least one more feature coming out of the show from last week (plus a 787 update) and I just put 438 pictures from Oshkosh on Flickr.
One of my favorites this week:
With A6-EDA now officially in revenue service now with Emirates, spotting super jumbos in the US just got a whole lot easier. EK201 (to JFK) and EK202 (to DXB) are being operated Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. Dubai to New York leaves UAE at 8:30 AM local and arrives at JFK around 2:15 PM. The return leg has the A380 leaving JFK at 11pm and touching down in Dubai at 7:45 PM the following day.
In other Emirates news...
It looks as though the airline is still actively considering the 747-8I and Tim Clark introduces the world to the Boeing 777-300ERX that would compete with the 'brochure performance' of the A350-1000. This is an interesting development, though it's worth asking if the market will responds like it did with the A350 as A330 refresh. As for 747-8I, it could potentially be a really good way to add capacity 360-400 seats at a time, especially if A380s aren't arriving as quickly as Emirates would like.
Olympic Flights
A Singapore Airlines A380 will be making appearances in Beijing all week ferrying traffic for the Olympics. Notably absent in China this week are both the A380 and 787. ANA (ZA007), Air China (ZA008) and China Southern (MSN031) were supposed to be flying new Airbus and Boeing aircraft this week in time for the Summer games to begin on the 8th. 787-8 and A380-800 on 08-08-08, see a pattern?
CRJ1000 Sees Daylight
A lucky spotter captured C-FRJX out on the ramp on July 17 in Mirabel, though the photo was only posted on August 1st. This is the first time we've seen the CRJ1000 fully painted in blue and silver since she was undergoing assembly during the spring.
777F Flight Testing
After ten days of ground testing at BFI, the 777F flew five test flights last week for a total of about ten hours in the sky. According to FlightAware, most of the testing had the 777F departing and arriving Boeing Field, though N5020K visited Moses Lake on July 28.
Sitting Still
I pretty much missed July in Washington with Farnborough and Oshkosh, so now it's time for me to sit down and write. I have at least one more feature coming out of the show from last week (plus a 787 update) and I just put 438 pictures from Oshkosh on Flickr.
One of my favorites this week:
on August 4, 2008 11:50 AM | Reply
Looking forward to your latest take on 787, Shanahan's Farnborough remarks and anything since (especially f/f schedule). Has anyone asked why Boeing didn't settle for an 8000ft cabin altitude and save more weight on the structure - or was the 6000ft cabin altitude a consequence of other (unavoidable?) engineering considerations re airframe life, safety or maintenance?
on August 4, 2008 9:00 PM | Reply
I am looking forward to further 787 coverage as well. I always thought that Boeing's comments about the 6000ft cabin altitude was consistent and believable -- that it was relatively cheap to do with the fatigue-free composites, and that they were looking to improve the flying experience (see also larger windows, electrochromic dimming, higher cabin humidity.) None of these things are free.
I believe also that at one point, Boeing was worried that the 787 was going to be so expensive that they were looking for ways to justify their cost, and to tell the airlines that their customers would pay more to fly 787s because they were more comfortable to fly. As near as I can tell, Boeing's engineers are the only people working to improve the flying experience...