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Interesting!  I didn't know this was coming off the line until I read this article about Airbus.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/artic ... %2C00.html

It's a graceful looking aircraft.  Look at that dihedral, it looks more like a sailplane rathered than a powered aircraft!

B-e-a-utiful aircraft!!

Its basically a 747 designed with the knowledge gained from research for the 787, should be a great plane!

That is one beautiful aircraft!!

An artists impression. The real thing will look quite different.

An artists impression. The real thing will look quite different.

The general public never realizes that.
Just look at the first 787 pictures, with the futuristic "shark fin", and the oooh-aaahs associated with that design.

Look at it now, it's in the trash bin  :)

LOL!!!!

The expected wet blanket!  

So, you're saying the 787 WON'T have a dihedral like what is shown?  

Touch

[quote]Touch

By judging from your first post, it seems like you believed that the aircraft actually looks like that.

The wings will have an upward slant, allright.
But it wont be as much in the picture.

The 747-800 will be longer, and why would you want it less manoverable?
(assuming you know about these things)

To further try to convince you: my friend, who is an aeronautic engineer dismissed the picture at the first glance "It's too much" he replied.

So Dcunning30, the picture you show us exaggerates the upward angle of the wings.

I knew the pic is an artists rendition.

I suspect the artists's brief was to make the new aircraft look as sexy as possible.

I have to agree with Woodlouse & Nexus. To anyone knowing anything about aerodynamics the wing flex in that impression appears to be highly exaggerated & it wouldn't be at all easy to control with that amount of "dihedral". Before you accuse me of being a wet blanket, the Boeing 747 is my favourite modern airliner. Where possible I would choose that to fly on myself. I always thought it looked very graceful considering its size.

To further try to convince you: my friend, who is an aeronautic engineer dismissed the picture at the first glance "It's too much" he replied.

What does your friend base that statement on?  Current practices?  The Boeing 787 and 747-8 will be making large uses of composites, by nature are much more flexable that the currently used metals.

Surely, you've seen Voyager and other Rutan planes in flight, whth their composite wings and all.  The flex on those wings seem unnatural as well.

I suspect the artists's brief was to make the new aircraft look as sexy as possible.

Agreed.  My response to your following point can be summed up with one word.

Composites!

[quote]INow, is Boeing given to releasing false information on their aircraft?