Imagine you're on a crashing Boeing plane in the future. As you go into the ground at several hundred miles an hour, won't it be good to know that the environment will be okay?
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2007-07-09 00:27:31 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
So, Brad, protecting airline customers, the people who keep airline companies going, isn't a "sound business plan"? DUH!
2007-07-09 00:39:23 · update #1
Dear, oh dear, none of you understand humour when you see it, do you?
2007-07-09 00:43:06 · update #2
I've always wondered why they don't build planes out of the stuff they make the Black Box Recorder.
2007-07-09 00:35:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
From a materials’ point of view, the 787 Dreamliner is one of the most revolutionary leaps in the history of manufacturing.
But in order to meet an ambitious delivery schedule – the first delivery is scheduled for May 2008 – there were tremendous hurdles to jump:
* No one ever attempted to mass produce very large carbon-reinforced plastic structures, which are thermoset materials with significantly slower processing times than thermoplastics,
* The critical tooling for such large sections was still very much in the development stage and, in fact, represented one of the few, small stumbles in the development program,
* New coatings had to be developed to deal with the crack propagation issues, which are not a factor with aluminum. Engineers had to devise different systems to deal with electrical shorts because composites are not electrically conductive.
Good for the environment , no it could encourage cheaper flights. What we need is some more research into new avaition fuels.
2007-07-09 08:45:59 · answer #2 · answered by Leo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'll never be able to build an aircraft that is indestructible. Heck, they tried building aircraft that were fire-resistant and they couldn't even pull that off. There's no way that you can make something that will completely withstand the force of a crash. We're talking about a very large object traveling at least 150 MPH -- if they could make something like that indestructible, don't you think NASCAR and Formula One racers would be built that way?
2007-07-09 07:37:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why spend money on researching something that is impossible? I mean, perhaps a small percentage of funds could work on something like you're suggesting... but seriously, no material that we know of is going to protect humans when they drop 20,000 feet out of the sky at several hundred miles per hour.
2007-07-09 07:37:32 · answer #4 · answered by Goose&Tonic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technology doesn't exist yet. It took Boeing this long to get to the 'composite' material technology. It'll take them 30 more years just to add some kind of skin-tight ablative armor to the mix. :0)
2007-07-09 08:50:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably the best for both safety and the environment is to make them run along the ground, probably on rails. We could give them a new fancy name like.. Train. At least it would take all these [Expletive Deleted] celebrities a bit longer to pollute the environment when they tell me to switch off the 60W bulb in my bedroom.
2007-07-09 07:37:49 · answer #6 · answered by Pat 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's not a sound business plan, they need airlines to continue to buy their product, if the planes were indestructible they would soon find themselves out of business...
2007-07-09 07:33:42 · answer #7 · answered by Brad 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
lol i understand but im sure boeing have thought about all the safety implications! i wonder if the life jackets are eco friendly too?
2007-07-09 09:20:22 · answer #8 · answered by ejb199 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋