Boeing 747-8 Freighter completes maiden flight

[Newsbot]

The maiden flight carried more than 5,000 Boeing employees, customers and suppliers and was the first of over 1,600 hours of the test programme for this member of the freighter family, the company said.

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[Yogesh Sarkar]

Damn! Thats a lot of people, armies ought to look at these for rapid troop deployment.

[ride_like_hell]

Most beautiful flying machine ever built. To me, A380, boasting of its size, stands nowhere near 747 series! And here we have 747-8 to rock the skies!!

[darth_lucifer]

Originally Posted by Newsbot

The maiden flight carried more than 5,000 Boeing employees.

Must have been 500 and this must be(is) a typo error....it aint an aircraft carrier.......5000 passengers....imagine the size of aircraft and runway required to create a lift

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Read this link it says

EVERETT, Wash., Feb. 8/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Boeing (NYSE: BA) 747-8 Freighter successfully took to the sky for the first time today before more than 5,000 employees, customers, suppliers and community leaders.

@rediff screwed it up big time :P

[lucifer]

Originally Posted by Yogesh Sarkar

Damn! Thats a lot of people, armies ought to look at these for rapid troop deployment.

The Indian Army has these Russian freighters which are the largest operating planes in the world. They can carry a payload of 27-30 trucks (those big ones we see in convoys) or 5000 men or a combination thereof.
Source: Army Jawans, South Pullu.

[darth_lucifer]

Originally Posted by lucifer

5000 men or a combination thereof.

Ilyushin???...there are passenger variants of it......5000 people.....cant belive it

[anupmathur]

Originally Posted by Newsbot

The maiden flight carried more than 5,000 Boeing employees, customers and suppliers and was the first of over 1,600 hours of the test programme for this member of the freighter family, the company said.

What a sorry piece of reporting!!

[cat]

hmm, If it crashed, that would be most of the management of Boeing and most of the customers wiped out.

[coolcowboy]

Originally Posted by Newsbot

The maiden flight carried more than 5,000 Boeing employees, customers and suppliers and was the first of over 1,600 hours of the test programme for this member of the freighter family, the company said.

Click here to read more...

LOL, Boeing carrying 5000 passengers for a ride on a test flight that too on a freighter,

Originally Posted by lucifer

The Indian Army...

You mean the Indian Air Force?

...has these Russian freighters which are the largest operating planes in the world. They can carry a payload of 27-30 trucks (those big ones we see in convoys) or 5000 men or a combination thereof.
Source: Army Jawans, South Pullu.

I don't think so !
I guess ur talking about the IAF IL-76. They are neither the largest aircraft in the world, nor can carry anything close to what a 747-8 can carry.

A 747-8 for example can carry a total payload of 140,000 kg (140 tonnes) whereas an IL76 can only carry 40 tonnes.

As for carrying trucks, check this photograph out


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This is a freighter variant of an Airbus A300, known as Beluga, and its carrying the fuselage of a Boeing 737 (common Jet aircraft)

As far as I know, the aircraft which is the largest AND can carry the max amount of payload is an Antonov 225, with a payload capacity of 250 tonnes , even an A380 cant beat it.

Originally Posted by anupmathur

What a sorry piece of reporting!!

+1

Amit

[popsha]

I hope there no more delays from Boeing on this one