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Often wondered if those airliners they do these air shows with are just empty shells. (no seats, etc). The lighter the better for the best thrust to weight ratio. But the fact you can nearly stand one on it's tail and accelerate up like a jet fighter is pretty darn impressive.
USA is still best at making big airplanes and big bombs.
No, this particular configuration was already rigged with seats since it was being used for a demonstration at the Paris Air Show. So the interior is fully done. The trick to this particular demo is that it's loaded with a minimal amount of fuel needed to complete the 8 minutes of flight time, no passengers, no cargo, taking off some safety measures, and a flight computer configuration set for an empty load. Then the plane on FBW will help allow the pilot to have more control in maneuverability.Often wondered if those airliners they do these air shows with are just empty shells. (no seats, etc). The lighter the better for the best thrust to weight ratio. But the fact you can nearly stand one on it's tail and accelerate up like a jet fighter is pretty darn impressive.
USA is still best at making big airplanes and big bombs.
Often wondered if those airliners they do these air shows with are just empty shells. (no seats, etc). The lighter the better for the best thrust to weight ratio. But the fact you can nearly stand one on it's tail and accelerate up like a jet fighter is pretty darn impressive.
It's a practice demo flight for the Paris Air Show 2015. They aren't loaded with anything except the pilots.
The AoA was in the 40-50 range. I can talk to someone on the test flight team to see what the AoA was on that specific practice flight.
Where's the source for that? Even the actual Paris Air Show demo shows a 40-50 AoA.It was a 30 degree AoA takeoff. I have no doubt that it can do a 90° climb however it would need quite a bit more airspeed to do that. I have seen at an airshow display a military version of the 757 do a almost vertical climb 80° to 6,000 ft. But it was at full power and at maximum airspeed and empty. It was impressive.
I'm already asking around what the AoA was for both the practice and flight demo's. Should find out next week. (Hint, I work for B).
A number of B flights and test for the proving flights for both the 787-8 and 787-9 have allowed for higher angle of attacks. The policies regarding high-risk flights changed years ago at Farnborough 2012 when they put a 787-8 on a demonstration test. Prior to that, Boeing had a policy in place for over 2 decades prohibiting demonstration flights.
