After three years of delays, the 787 landed in Japan this week for testing ahead of its launch on ANA this August or September. And as you’ll see in this video, there’s lots to like: each passenger gets access to a power outlet, USB port, iPod connector and touchscreen entertainment. Plus, it’ll have fancy Japanese-style toilets that spray your butt.
Passenger windows will be bigger and electro-chromatic, so they’ll dim like adjustable sunglasses. No more being woken to lift your window shade for landing.
Speaking of sleeping, the engines have noise reducing material and tipped exhaust covers to reduce cabin noise, and the all-electronically controlled aircraft will pressurise at 6,000 feet instead of 8,000, to help you feel less drained after longer flights.
All Nippon Airways has already ordered 55 of the new jets, too. [Computerworld]
Badum
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 11:19 AMThe person in the video sounds constipated.
Allister Roger
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 11:41 AMvaustralia have all of that on their airbus except powerpoints for economy and a butt spray
Cameron
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 12:16 PM“each passenger gets access to a power outlet, USB port, iPod connector and touchscreen entertainment”
Depending on if the airline you fly with provides them. With how airlines treat their “customers” these day’s I’d be surprised if you got a cushion on your seat, let alone a power outlet.
Nodeity
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 12:18 PMSomehow I don’t think we’ll see too many being bought by Ozy Airlines,.. Most of em are friggin broke and can’t maintain the one they have now!!!
Jokemeister
Sunday, July 10, 2011 at 7:02 PMQantas has about 70 on order.
olearymo
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 12:45 PMI love how they bring out these things, it’s like car ads with ‘optional extras’.
Oh, this new dreamliner, every passenger has a king size bed, and a projection room, and a bloody spa bath… (subject to carrier layout).
Then of course, Qantas shoves it full of seats. As they should, I mean, if I was an airline I don’t see how you could make profit on the sort of crap the engineering companies put in videos.
Jason
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 1:04 PMPitiful they haven’t even upgraded to a joystick for control. Surely that big ass wheel is completely redundant and occupies too much space. Guarantee no military aereoplanes use a wheel, nor Airbus. It would all be electronic anyways so it’s not like greater torque is required.
huu
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 1:06 PMhmmm is letting each passenger with there own power outlet a good idea? i mean i see what some idiots can do with a power outlet.
Sylphier
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 2:05 PMSay… ?
Sylphier
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 2:06 PM*oops, meant to say:
Say… “insert fork into power outlet” kind of idiots?
Chris
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 3:14 PMThe 787 truly change the way aircraft are build. As noted the 787 are a composite platic unlike other aircraft. At Allister, yes the Airbus might have some of the technologies on their aircraft but believe me mate – the Dreamliner are truly something special. Jason – why do you need to fly with a joystick????? The Boeing Control column are way more safe – on an Airbus the joystick sits on the left hand side (tell me how many left handed pilots are there???????
olearymo
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 4:05 PMHere dude, it seems you’re not using quite enough question marks. Try these extras, just whack ‘em on there…
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Alex
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 4:11 PMYeah it’s so advanced it’s made of composites, except for all the alloy they had to put into it to make it actually work OK. All the hype and marketing for this plane will be toast once actual (genuine) operational figures are published.
Also at Nodeity, many of Qantas’ problems of jets breaking down and being unreliable is because the 787 is so delayed due to Boeing’s management incompetence that the planes they’re still using should have been retired several years ago.
Read the Crikey ‘Plane Talking’ blog by Ben Sandilands to get the real story on this ‘amazing’ new plane that is not quite so amazing now it’s finally being realised.
Franz
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 9:13 PMYou people are in economy class for a reason.
JPhillips
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 11:38 PM+1