Seattle (Reuters)-the Boeing company longing dream machine on Sunday as a business reality plastic composite material light 787 dreamliner officially handed over to give it the first Japanese customers.
Boeing said, revolutionary carbon fiber design, hand 20% of the fuel save airlines struggle, to avoid a new recession, and give passengers a better in the cabin air and large electronic light on the window of the more comfortable.
The first $2 million of the aircraft were handed over to Japan telecom operators ana after three years behind schedule, cost for the delay of the Boeing billions of dollars.
"We spent a lot of hard work, these days, 787 project vice President and general manager," Scott said FanChe, in two days, the celebrations in Seattle factory in the beginning.
Blue and white hand-painted long-haul aircraft, it has beautiful tilt of the new design wing tips, will leave Japan, on Tuesday and October 26 into the domestic services.
Boeing 821 dreamliner order, this will and future airbus A350 competition, expires in 2013.
The return of the peoples attention after a week of another major first delivery-747 cargo aircraft-suddenly put off in the contract dispute with the customer. Ana, the world 9 largest airlines by income, plan, a long international routes, like Frankfurt, Germany, and then it will be coaxed into domestic airline plane service.
The plane to further 52%, more than all the metal Boeing 767, it is designed to replace, and use of flight distance 20% less fuel, ana chief executive said.
In a high risk of the aerospace industry of classic roll the dice, Boeing to give up a sound barrier after "speed cruise" plan in ten years ago and lighter remote passenger plane as a lack of money airlines value more than rapidly increase.
The resulting composite foundation for the technology proved and airlines, forcing the welcome of airbus, the next generation of aluminium body on the plane back. Boeing is expected to become the future passenger plane standards.
"Technology will only become more efficient and lighter, and said:" 787 project's chief project engineer Mike Sinnett.
The buyer confidence warming
The plane's lighter weight, allowing airlines business routes, even in demand, large aircraft, such as the Boeing 777 or 747, or airbus 380 super passenger aircraft.
FanChe said: "we believe that the airlines jet age 707 introduction, this is important,".
He proposed the new material, to prevent any fear, emphasize the difficult of composite materials, not like common plastic.
"Plastic is you to your car dashboards, does this plastic," he told reporters.
787 development plan have been delayed and engineering, supply chain burr and in the 2008 58 days strike seven times, because of the challenge. [ID: nS1E78O09V]
"We have been waiting for three years or more 787, such as we expected in the summer of 2008, said:" senior vice President TengMu, part of the talks, buy 787.
"I can't say delay delivery didn't have any effect, but Nippon airline company and Boeing close cooperation, in order to reduce it," he said, Boeing is offering an alternative to jet, to make up for the deficiency.
Ana has already ordered value of $11 billion in the current directory price, including 40 260 passengers were sent to 787-8 varieties of a total of 55 Dreamliner aircraft on Monday. #
Ana plan for delivery in 2011 four aircraft and an extra 8 next year. "By the end of 2017, we will get all of our 787, so it is striking all our delivery."
Seattle times "report, last Sunday, 787 the cost of the project has reached 32 billion us dollars, and as the delay. The estimated questions, whether new aircraft will make Boeing money before," said the newspaper to 2020 years, if any. "
Boeing declined to comment.
Analysts said, the cost of the new laryngeal general in close to 15 billion dollars.
Boeing is also facing Wall Street's concern, in its to remove the output to monthly 10 aircraft in 2013, to achieve the goal of ability.
"Boeing still realized the smooth production slope, still need to do about 40 plane, it says will need to a few years to finish the rework, aerospace analyst Scott Hamilton said."
When asked about how to believe him, Boeing will continue to adhere to its latest output target, the ana TengMu said: "we are in Boeing can take delivery this time are very confident."
Also not sure how much is plane, Boeing must sell reach balance, some companies have not said.
"If is 1200, they should make money, if is larger than, it can be challenging," Hamilton said.
The delivery, Boeing still locked in its in Washington state, where there was a tradition of the top of the plane built one of the trade union of the debate.
The international association of machinists and the national labor relations board accused Boeing in south Carolina a FeiGongHui construction of 787 factory, the past strike the IAM punishment.
Boeing rejected the claim, saying in south Carolina work represents the new employment opportunities, not to move the existing work. The problem has become a political lightning rod, accused the United States was not friendly company of democratic control of the national labor relations board of the republican party.




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