Boeing 787

[cosmoc]

Hello all
with the very near first flight of the 787 coming closer and closer, are their RB's currently able to see the first flight. If so i hope their will be screen shots :-)
anyway anybody out their also looking forward to the 787 flying onto our screens???
 

[CanadaKen]

I know there is a fellow on Vancouver Island with an SBS-1 who regularly logs
Boeing test flights. I believe there is a Radarbox in the Seattle area also.

Looks like 1st Flight will be somewhere around June 20th to 24th.

CK

[DaveReid]

Looks like 1st Flight will be somewhere around June 20th to 24th.

My money is on the 30th - heads will roll at Boeing if it doesn't happen in the first half of 2009 ...

[malc41]

Dave

Have to agree, Airbus is certainly showing them a clean pair of heels at the moment.

[Allocator]

Not doing too well with the A400M though!

[malc41]

Military stuff, real money in selling big gas guzzling airliners

[SpeedWagon]

Hi;
  I am a new RB owner on Vancouver Island and I have regularly been getting the Boeing test flights. There is one on the screen from Pegasus Airlines now.  I have been posting my logs to the Mode_S Yahoo group.  Am waiting for a better antenna to clear customs.

[DaveReid]

Not doing too well with the A400M though!

Quite so.  Incidentally, has anyone in the Cambridge area picked up the TP400 flying testbed ? (C-130 XV208, no idea what its Mode S code is)

[Allocator]

Morning Dave!

Nice picture here, looks like it is still wearing XV208 -difficult to read, but looks about right.  No idea about the Mode S code though.

http://www.airliners.net/photo/UK---Air/Lockheed-C-130K-Hercules/1449654/&sid=45b18262bf31fb73a4923767d31e3f19

[CanadaKen]

Hi;
  I am a new RB owner on Vancouver Island

Where on the Island, Speedwagon?

I'm over in North Delta. I would buy a Radarbox tomorrow but I have a "wall"
of 150' cedar trees blocking about 200 degrees of coverage. :-(

Ken

[malc41]

Great opportunity for Airnav. With each RB sold, you get a free chainsaw :-)

[nortonbeak]

Great opportunity for Airnav. With each RB sold, you get a free chainsaw :-)

Or a 160' mast  :-)

[SpeedWagon]

Hi;
  I am a new RB owner on Vancouver Island

Where on the Island, Speedwagon?

I'm over in North Delta. I would buy a Radarbox tomorrow but I have a "wall"
of 150' cedar trees blocking about 200 degrees of coverage. :-(

Ken

Victoria, just a couple Km north of downtown.  I have mountains to the north and west and with my current discone rarely get comings and goings from Victoria Int.

[airnav1967]

Sorry but is the Boeing 787 the dreamliner, if someone could clear that up for me

airnav1967

[RodBearden]

Yes it is - at least that's what Boeing called it - but it's bit of a nightmare until it's been delivered and the airline compensation claims are out of the way, though :-¦

Rod