Category Archives: Aerospace

Boeing Gives Us A Peak At the B787 Assembly Plant in South Carolina

Posted on Friday, January 27, 2012 by MegaZone

Boeing posted a video look at their new plant in South Carolina which houses the secondary B787 final assembly line. It’s a greenfield development and they found a few interesting things while building it – like 200,000 year old shark’s … Continue reading →

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Making The Boeing B777 More Environmentally Friendly

Posted on Monday, January 23, 2012 by MegaZone

When we think of the environmental impact of airliners we tend to think of efficiency in flight – increasing engine efficiency, decreasing drag, making the airframe lighter, etc. But there are a lot of other ways they can have an … Continue reading →

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Boeing B787 Dreamliner Sets Two World Records

Posted on Friday, January 6, 2012 by MegaZone

The Boeing B787 Dreamliner recently completed a round-the-world flight, setting two world records for its class in the process. The first is a distance record of 10,337 nautical miles for the first leg of the flight. The second is time … Continue reading →

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Assembling the Airbus A300-200F, Painting the Boeing 747-8, and The Life of Luggage

Posted on Sunday, January 1, 2012 by MegaZone

A few weeks ago Airbus shared a video of an A300-200 airliner being assembled. Now they’ve shared another one, of the A330-200F’s final assembly. Yeah, same basic airframe, but the freighter version. Who cares, it’s aerospace factory pr0n! I spotted … Continue reading →

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Stratolaunch Systems – You Can’t Say They Don’t Dream Big!

Posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2011 by MegaZone

What do you get when ex-Microsoft tycoon Paul Allen pulls together Burt Rutan’s Scaled Composites, home of SpaceShipOne, and Elon Musk’s SpaceX, home of the Falcon series of launchers? A new company, Stratolaunch Systems, with a truly audacious plan for … Continue reading →

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