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Post by Ykato on Jul 10, 2013 16:33:51 GMT 12
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Post by suthg on Jul 10, 2013 18:15:59 GMT 12
Impressive increases in flights and tourists (and expenditure) into NZ from a wealthy nation! It is also a direct link from London with the one stop in Guangzhou for refuelling and then into Auckland for the cheapest flights from UK to NZ.
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Post by b10m on Jul 13, 2013 16:43:42 GMT 12
Probably Boeing will have sorted out these battery issues by then....hopefully
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Post by bell407 on Jul 14, 2013 10:02:00 GMT 12
I don't understand these battery issues, one would think Boeing would have experience with aircraft batteries, how can they get this wrong? can't they just use existing batteries from the 777 or the 767? why can't they get something as simple (In regards to their experience in aircraft manufacture to date)right?
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Post by lumpy on Jul 14, 2013 12:07:55 GMT 12
I don't understand these battery issues, one would think Boeing would have experience with aircraft batteries, how can they get this wrong? can't they just use existing batteries from the 777 or the 767? why can't they get something as simple (In regards to their experience in aircraft manufacture to date)right? You would think so wouldnt you , but I suspect its far more complicated than that . I imagine they would have crammed the smallest , lightest , most powerfull batteries they could , into the smallest space possible . Perhaps they are overheating because of it ( some batteries can be a bit funny that way , especially Lithium based ones ) - so what would they do then ? No simple answers really . |
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Post by baz62 on Jul 14, 2013 12:34:23 GMT 12
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Post by delticman on Jul 14, 2013 13:19:45 GMT 12
About three hours ago BBC were saying, not a battery fault.
I think I've read somehere that the 787 does not generate power supply from generators on the engines in the normal way. The power supply comes from the lithium batteries. It's a whole new ball game how the system works.
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