787 Dreamliner in Shannon Today (18/07)

radar0976

787 en route to Shannon this morning from Moscow. Due to land in Shannon at about 10:30am.

I had heard she was originally due in tomorrow. Anyone know how long she is sticking around for ?

highlydebased

radar0976 wrote: »

787 en route to Shannon this morning from Moscow. Due to land in Shannon at about 10:30am.

I had heard she was originally due in tomorrow. Anyone know how long she is sticking around for ?

Info suggests it will overnight (hopefully!)

Blue Punto

can anyone confirm that this has arrived and if so what is its ETD

tfitzgerald

Wher would be a good place to see this from

highlydebased

Blue Punto wrote: »

can anyone confirm that this has arrived and if so what is its ETD

It has- tommorow at 1250 I've heard

radar0976

highlydebased wrote: »

It has- tommorow at 1250 I've heard

Excellent, thanks for the info.

Tenger

As expected, Malcolm had pics up already:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanair/6055273049/in/contacts/

radar0976

Tenger wrote: »

As expected, Malcolm had pics up already:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanair/6055273049/in/contacts/

Where was this taken from ? Going up tomorrow and wondering where is the best spot to position myself to get some good video.

moss.ie

Blue Punto wrote: »

can anyone confirm that this has arrived and if so what is its ETD

hey dude, its definately here,


etd is 10.00 afik

alan85

Anybody know what that thing is attached to the vertical stabeliser? Some sort of test probe?

moss.ie

alan85 wrote: »

Anybody know what that thing is attached to the vertical stabeliser? Some sort of test probe?

it looked like a mini drogue on a cable but it could have been a tennis ball on a string for all i know lol

Blue Punto

moss.ie wrote: »

Blue Punto wrote: »

can anyone confirm that this has arrived and if so what is its ETD

hey dude, its definately here,


etd is 10.00 afik

Hey moss

10am is the departure time for the morning.

Very nice pic Moss
Just got some great pics will post them when I get home

I got very lucky today :-)

moss.ie

alan85 wrote: »

Anybody know what that thing is attached to the vertical stabeliser? Some sort of test probe?

heres a close up

irishdub14

Wings are cool, nose is ugly....

delta_xray

Its a trailing cone generally used in testbed aircraft to calibrate the static pressure error (which reports the altitude) of the pitot-static system. It trails the aircraft in the free stream which gives the most accurate pressure. As the sensors that will be used on real life aircraft are on the skin of the aicraft there is some error in the readings due to the airflow over the aircraft surface resulting in different values given to the true ones. The trailing cone provides the real values, and the difference between the sensors and the trailing cone gives the correction factor.

kona

What exactley is composite on the 787? surely the load bearing points like the landing gear and wings are still alloy?

Blue Punto

As I said I got Lucky today and I owe my best mate body parts for making the shots I got today possible:D


ZA001 by niallsaviation, on Flickr
Will post more later

ScabbyLeg

Landing gear is still the traditional steel and titanium combo, I see lots of titanium on the photo above. I presume lots of the main structural components are aluminium still.

Blue Punto

N787BA by niallsaviation, on Flickr


N787BA by niallsaviation, on Flickr


More here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/niallsaviation/sets/72157627339311665/

jimdeans

Top pics son, top pics.

lintdrummer

So... What's it doing in Shannon? Stopover on the way home?

murphym7

Sorry for going off topic - its just I saw the picture of the nose wheel and the chocks either side of it and it got me thinking. Aircraft on stands get these chocks put either side fo teh wheels - - are these actually effective? Do they stop the aircraft rolling around the place? Excuse my ignorance!

View Profile

Yeah theyre effective.

You never know when the aircraft's brakes may fail, or be released accidentally. Also a lot of aprons are on a slant so the aircraft could start rolling without these chocks.

Blue Punto

A few more from this morning before take off

Many Thanks to all at Shannon OP's and the guys from Boeing for their assistance over the last two days
[URL="[URL]http://www.flickr.com/photos/niallsaviation/6058700549/"][/URL[/URL]]
[URL="[URL]http://www.flickr.com/photos/niallsaviation/6058700549/"]First[/URL] Flight[/URL] by [URL="[URL]http://www.flickr.com/people/niallsaviation/"]niallsaviation[/URL[/URL]], on Flickr

More here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/niallsaviation/sets/72157627469472366/

A320

yes chocks are very important,especially if your not careful,accumulator pressure can drop overnight and lessen the effectivity of the brakes.
I remember a 737 on a nightshift outside in the pissing rain and wind where we just had the park brake off for a part of the take off warning system test,needless to say the aircraft moved about a foot when a gale hit us!!

delta_xray

Blue Punto, you are a very lucky person to get upclose to a 787 , not to mention inside. Were this any normally kitted out airplane, i'd be saying that but to get inside a testbed aircraft may an opportunity you'll never get again unless you are in that line of work.

Blue Punto

Tell me about it

A chance in a lifetime which I enjoyed greatly

radar0976

Got this video of her on departure from Shannon yesterday morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAbCYKkzEIc

robertxxx

Why are the wing tips flat.

Tenger

robertxxx wrote: »

Why are the wing tips flat.

The B787 wings are 'raked; like the B777. It is more efficient than the winglets that you may have seen on B737, B757 and B767's.

This from wikipedia:
Raked wingtips are a feature on some Boeing airliners, where the tip of the wing has a higher degree of sweep than the rest of the wing. The stated purpose of this additional feature is to improve fuel efficiency and climb performance, and to shorten takeoff field length. It does this in much the same way that winglets do, by increasing the effective aspect ratio of the wing and interrupting harmful wingtip vortices. This decreases the amount of lift-induced drag experienced by the aircraft. In testing by Boeing and NASA, raked wingtips have been shown to reduce drag by as much as 5.5%, as opposed to improvements of 3.5% to 4.5% from conventional winglets.[13]
While an equivalent increase in wingspan would be more effective than a winglet of the same length, the bending force becomes a greater factor. A three-foot winglet has the same bending force as a one-foot increase in span, yet gives the same performance gain as a two-foot wing span increase.[23]
For this reason, the short-range Boeing 787-3 design called for winglets instead of the raked wingtips featured on all other 787 variants

Pic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boeing_787_Roll-out.jpg

moss.ie

dep from a very wet rway 24 last friday morning, the rain stopped just as she throttled up, (thank god!) Next stop seattle.........

donvito99

This video may be of some interest to Shannon spotters (and others).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNw7Dac6eTo

From 6:13 for about a minute Shannon is featured with a cargo flight from the Middle East I think carrying horses. An Irish airline or airport has never been featured, so it is a bit of a once off.

You gotta love the DC8 too!