The new video offers the full flight routine and a new experience: Viewers can choose between camera angles to see the full airplane and the pilots inside the flight deck.
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Once you get to the multi-view link – WOW so cool,,,, guess what ? It may be a 787-9 Dreamliner BUT – LOOK, THEY ARE FLYING THE AIRPLANE and looking out the window. Game-boy pilots and flight management/manager-pilots take note – this is how it’s done !! Please take this comment in the spirit in which it is offered – we need to get back to basics sometimes – so go be safe and have fun too.
It looks to me like the link above is to the ordinary video from early June, with only one view. This link: www.youtube.com/user/Boeing/ChooseYourView got me to the choose-your-view video.
was that a vertical take off?
Excellent Demo Video,shows the immense capability and aerodynamics of the 787.The Dreamliner is the Aircraft of the next generation!
The 787 “may not be GA”, …but it has capability that every GA airplane, and UAVs, and even gliders, LSAs, parachutists, and military air vehicles will eventually need… so as to be able to economically and effectively share trajectory data, to share airspace, to assure substantive airspace access, for even low end GA, at affordable ANSP separation service costs!
The 787 as well as other Boeings and many Airbusses already have things like trajectory exchange with RNP capability, data links, and more suitable ADS (ADS-A, ADS-B and ADS-C) that is vastly better for both affording globally relevant All-Weather flight operations capability, as well as providing affordable separation services globally, …than anything else in GA currently flying or even on the drawing board. Low cost versions of some of that same avionics capability for RNP, and Data link, as well as for ADS (but NOT FAA’s flawed and overspecified version of ADS) could be available to GA too, to help lower ATS costs to GA affordable levels.
But sadly, many GA aircraft are heading in other entirely unproductive directions with their avionics, focusing on obsolete concepts like “glass for no useful purpose”, or WAAS, LPV, and FAA’s unique brand of “Pseudo radar like” based ADS-B, which will never work to substantially lower ATS costs, and will get GA nowhere but toward being financially bankrupt. For NextGen to ever be successful, GA airplanes need to emulate 787s and other modern transport jets for avionic systems like FMS, and related capability, with low cost versions of that equipment.
However, for that to happen, FAA and its related RTCA criteria need to first be critically reviewed and massively re-written, as NextGen itself is substantially reconsidered and its design revised.
So unlike the assertions of the many magazine articles and flashy magazine ads recently touting GA “Glass Cockpit Avionics” for NextGen, …a more accurate description of those recent GA avionics systems would largely characterize them instead as “already obsolete” “eye candy”, with little or no useful improved functionality for actually solving GA’s long term airspace access or economy of ATS separation operations issue.