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701151 Senior Member Offline Delta 737-200 Posts: 1009 Location: UNITED STATES Joined: Jan 29^th, 2011 Gender:	Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental Mar 20^th, 2011 at 1:05pm	Print Post
	Boeing has announced that the first flight of their newest airliner, the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental shall fly, for its first time, on March 20, 2011 at earliest 10:00am PST. The Boeing 747-8I is the world's most advanced airliner, it is 15% more fuel-effecient, 15% lower carbon footprint and has a 30% cost to operate than the 747-400 it replaces, whilst having a range of an extra 740nm, can carry 467 passengers in a three-class configuration (51 more than the 747-400) and cruises at Mach .0855 and is the most effecient airliner made by Boeing, and better than Airbus. Plus it has great looks! Have a happy voyage, and be who you are, the true queen of the skies. In my opinion and many people's, the best lookign airliner, and arguably the best looking plane ever made, and much nicer than the A380.


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701151 Senior Member Offline Delta 737-200 Posts: 1009 Location: UNITED STATES Joined: Jan 29^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental Reply #1 - Mar 20^th, 2011 at 1:05pm	Print Post
	Also like to say that I'd love to see one of these under Captain Sim's colors....


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701151 Senior Member Offline Delta 737-200 Posts: 1009 Location: UNITED STATES Joined: Jan 29^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental Reply #2 - Mar 20^th, 2011 at 5:06pm	Print Post
	She flew! It was oh, so beautiful...


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boeing247 Senior Member Offline Pilots: Looking down on people since 1903 Posts: 1506 Location: Southern CA Joined: Feb 23^rd, 2011 Gender:	Re: Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental Reply #3 - Mar 20^th, 2011 at 7:45pm	Print Post
	Arrgh!!! I missed it (assuming there was a webcast)! Is there a recording online anywhere? Thanks for the heads-up, though... of course yesterday I decided to take a break from posting.

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701151 Senior Member Offline Delta 737-200 Posts: 1009 Location: UNITED STATES Joined: Jan 29^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental Reply #4 - Mar 22^nd, 2011 at 1:52am	Print Post
	Yes the webcast was there. Saw it live from the site. I was oping the flight would be during my spring break (two weeks from now) to witness it, but it was amazing anyways. Seattle lent SoCal their rain for the day! I would love to see a Captain Sim 747-8, because another company's isn't the best, but still good.


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boeing247 Senior Member Offline Pilots: Looking down on people since 1903 Posts: 1506 Location: Southern CA Joined: Feb 23^rd, 2011 Gender:	Re: Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental Reply #5 - Mar 22^nd, 2011 at 3:38am	Print Post
	Did you watch it on the same website as the debut? I agree, it is a pretty good-looking plane. No offense to airbus fanboys, but the A380 is pretty ugly. It looks like some kind of fish. �

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701151 Senior Member Offline Delta 737-200 Posts: 1009 Location: UNITED STATES Joined: Jan 29^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental Reply #6 - Mar 22^nd, 2011 at 1:24pm	Print Post
	I wouldn't insult fish with the A380. But it does look like a blobfish. The blobfish is a deep sea creature, and being brought up to sea level cause him to blob even more. notice that the nose resembles the A380.

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audiohavoc Full Member Offline Posts: 160 Joined: Sep 13^th, 2009	Re: Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental Reply #7 - Mar 22^nd, 2011 at 2:52pm	Print Post
	701151 wrote on Mar 22^nd, 2011 at 1:52am: Yes the webcast was there. Saw it live from the site. I was oping the flight would be during my spring break (two weeks from now) to witness it, but it was amazing anyways. Seattle lent SoCal their rain for the day! I would love to see a Captain Sim 747-8, because other's isn't the best, but still good. The 747 you mentioned is the best available for FSX, and there is a reason that Angle of Attack media has produced training materials for it (hint: it is a very accurate simulation). The only issue I have with it is that the dome lighting causes some strange effects. It is a little hard on frame rates, but you have to remember that it is an older product and is extremely complex. Anyways, since Captain Sim's specialty seems to be steam gauge airliners, I really hope they do the 747 classic someday with one of their famously worn and aged cockpits.

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701151 Senior Member Offline Delta 737-200 Posts: 1009 Location: UNITED STATES Joined: Jan 29^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental Reply #8 - Mar 22^nd, 2011 at 10:49pm	Print Post
	The 757/767 aren't steam guage planes! I don't like it when people call gyros 'steam gauages' they have nothing to do with steam! People just want to make fun of them as being old like a steam locomotive. These gyros are stil great and planes have only been mass produced with glass cockpit for 5 or 6 year now.


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audiohavoc Full Member Offline Posts: 160 Joined: Sep 13^th, 2009	Re: Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental Reply #9 - Mar 22^nd, 2011 at 11:12pm	Print Post
	701151 wrote on Mar 22^nd, 2011 at 10:49pm: The 757/767 aren't steam guage planes! I don't like it when people call gyros 'steam gauages' they have nothing to do with steam! People just want to make fun of them as being old like a steam locomotive. These gyros are stil great and planes have only been mass produced with glass cockpit for 5 or 6 year now. I never called the 757/767 "steam gauge" planes, I simply stated that Captain Sim's specialty seems to be the steam gauge airplanes, and I say this because of the 707,727, 737 (upcoming), C-130, and B52 are all non-glass cockpit aircraft, and in my opinion are their best products. And the term "steam gauge" is just a slang term for non-glass gauges in aircraft because they look like steam gauges. And the gyro gauges you refer to only consist of the ADI and HSI in the early Boeings as far as I know, so most of the gauges are not gyro operated. �Glass cockpits have also been mass produced for much longer than 5-6 years. �My stepfather was an engineer for Honeywell and was involved in avionics production for over 30 years, and I know he worked on glass avionics for much longer than 5-6 years.

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boeing247 Senior Member Offline Pilots: Looking down on people since 1903 Posts: 1506 Location: Southern CA Joined: Feb 23^rd, 2011 Gender:	Re: Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental Reply #10 - Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 1:15am	Print Post
	I do know what audiohavoc means, most of CS's airliners are older (the 767 isn't old, but it's not new, either). I wish they would do some more modern airliners, because CS's level of detail is one-of-a-kind (in a very good way ).

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701151 Senior Member Offline Delta 737-200 Posts: 1009 Location: UNITED STATES Joined: Jan 29^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental Reply #11 - Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 1:43am	Print Post
	Boeing just rolled out their 1,000th Boeing 767 last week for ANA.


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boeing247 Senior Member Offline Pilots: Looking down on people since 1903 Posts: 1506 Location: Southern CA Joined: Feb 23^rd, 2011 Gender:	Re: Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental Reply #12 - Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 4:00am	Print Post
	Nice! Where are you finding these events? I keep missing them... Oh, I had heard of the blobfish, and I myself had thought that the A380 bore a resemblance to it... (I really don't mean to insult the A380, I'm just saying it's not everything it's cracked up to be).

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boeing247 Senior Member Offline Pilots: Looking down on people since 1903 Posts: 1506 Location: Southern CA Joined: Feb 23^rd, 2011 Gender:	Re: Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental Reply #13 - Mar 27^th, 2011 at 5:34am	Print Post
	Check this out: http://www.airliners.net/photo/Boeing/Boeing-747-8JK/1886283/L/

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701151 Senior Member Offline Delta 737-200 Posts: 1009 Location: UNITED STATES Joined: Jan 29^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental Reply #14 - Mar 27^th, 2011 at 6:16pm	Print Post
	Beautiful shot.


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