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Post by beagle on Jul 7, 2014 18:05:26 GMT 12
An Air New Zealand Boeing 787-9 will participate in next week’s Farnborough Airshow, just days after the airline takes delivery of its first 787 on Friday.
The aircraft to be displayed at Farnborough will be the fifth of 10 the New Zealand airline has on order, and will be on static display and participate in the flying display over July 14-18.
Air New Zealand’s first 787-9, meanwhile, was contractually handed over to the airline at the end of June, and is due to depart Seattle on delivery to Auckland on Thursday morning local time, arriving Friday afternoon. The kiwi flag carrier is the launch customer for the stretched version of the 787.
“The 787-9 is full of innovative features that are brand new to aviation and will enhance the inflight experience for our customers. The jet also uses 20 per cent less fuel than similar aircraft making it an environmentally responsible choice to take us into the future,” said chief flight operations and safety officer Captain David Morgan.
“It’s a great honour to have one of Air New Zealand’s 787-9 aircraft exhibited to hundreds of thousands of aviation enthusiasts at what is one of the industry’s premier events.”
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Post by beagle on Jul 7, 2014 18:51:26 GMT 12
So this will be the 5th airframe. I wonder if this is one of the test airframes or not. So if this is the 5th, will we have all 5 in service by the end of the year.
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Post by ErrolC on Jul 7, 2014 23:31:46 GMT 12
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Post by ErrolC on Jul 10, 2014 8:15:45 GMT 12
Twitter tells me that the B787-9 going to Farnborough is N789EX, and it is now in AirNZ livery.
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Post by ErrolC on Jul 10, 2014 9:39:25 GMT 12
Aviation Week journo Adrian Schofield will be on the delivery flight to AKL. Photos etc at twitter.com/AvWeekScho
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jul 10, 2014 17:31:09 GMT 12
from The Seattle Times....First customer shows off Boeing’s 787-9By BRANDON BROWN - Seattle Times business reporter | 9:50PM PDT - Wednesday, July 09, 2014Air New Zealand’s Cleavon Whittfield puts some finishing touches on an engine casing. — Photo: Mike Siegel/The Seattle Times.[PAINTED BLACK with white wings and a traditional fern design on its tail, the first delivered 787-9 Dreamliner was unveiled on Wednesday by Boeing and Air New Zealand.
Air New Zealand will be the first airline to fly the new plane, which is scheduled to enter service October 15th, on a route from Auckland, New Zealand, to Perth, Australia.
The 787-9 will be used on Air New Zealand’s flights to Shanghai and Tokyo as well. Rob McDonald, the carrier’s chief financial officer, said it will also enable the airline to open new routes, but he would not give details.
The airline will start to replace its Boeing 767-300 planes with 787-9s, completing the switch by 2016, he said. The company has ordered 10 787-9s and should receive them all by late 2017.Launch customer Air New Zealand will replace all of its Boeing 767-300s with the 787-9s by 2016. The company has ordered 10 of the new Dreamliners and should receive the last by late 2017. — Photo: Mike Siegel/The Seattle Times.Boeing Vice President Mark Jenks said Air New Zealand, as the launch customer, worked closely with Boeing on both the interior and exterior design of the plane.
“We involved them (Air New Zealand) very early,” Jenks said. “Having them there was really fantastic from the development perspective.”
Jenks praised Air New Zealand’s innovations on the jet’s interior, from the seating arrangements to USB ports for passengers’ electronic devices.
Inside the 302-seat plane, there are four different seating sectors: Business Premier, Premium Economy, Economy Skycouch and Economy. Each seat comes with a high-definition touch-screen entertainment device.Business-class seats turn into beds on the first delivered 787-9 for Air New Zealand. Boeing and the airline showed off the jet Wednesday at Paine Field. — Photo: Mike Siegel/The Seattle Times.Business Premier includes a leather armchair that can turn into a lay-down bed with memory-foam mattress.
In the economy section, there are 14 three-seat groupings that can be turned into a flat, sofalike surface that Air New Zealand calls a Skycouch.
The windows on Air New Zealand’s 787-9 are 30 percent bigger than the airline’s current 767. This allows in more natural light, and passengers can easily see out the windows on the other side of the aircraft.
At 206 feet in length, the 787-9 is 20 feet longer than Boeing’s first version, the 787-8. Boeing boasts a 20 percent improvement in fuel efficiency compared with earlier airplanes of similar size.
Through June 2014, Boeing has received 409 orders for the 787-9 from 26 different customers, according to its website. In total, it has 869 unfilled orders for the 787 Dreamliner.seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2024031821_airnz787xml.html
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Post by beagle on Jul 10, 2014 21:46:21 GMT 12
Air New Zealand considers Boeing 777X vs Airbus A350 Air New Zealand will run the ruler over both the Boeing 777X and Airbus A350 as replacements for its current long-range Boeing 777 fleet, the airline revealed today. Also in the mix is a second batch of 787-9s with more premium seating for the North American market. "In the next decade we’ll have to look at the replacement of our Boeing 777-200ERs as well as the Boeing 777-300ER" Air New Zealand chief financial officer Rob McDonald told journalists in Seattle today, ahead of the delivery flight of the Kiwi carrier's first Boeing 787-9. McDonald said "this will be a big contest" between the Boeing 777X and the Airbus A350, although adding "that's many years away." Closer on the calendar is a second order for the Boeing 787-9, with Air New Zealand holding options to buy eight more of the Dreamliners on top of the current 10. "Some of those options come up in the next little while, so we'll turn our minds to that as to where we think the network will go" McDonald said. While the first ten Boeing 787-9s will replace Air New Zealand's older fuel-thirsty Boeing 767s, they also allow for new destinations throughout the Asia-Pacific region. But in order to take on US or Canadian routes the airline will consider a revamped configuration with more business class and premium economy seats. "Technically the 787-9 can do trans-Pacific" with a fully load of passengers, McDonald said, "but probably not on the way back." "The issue is that we put quite a few seats onto the 787-9 because this configuration is very much pitched to a tourism market like the Asian market – we think this is a very good configuration for cities like Shanghai and Tokyo – so we will turn our minds to whether another configuration is required (for North America)." That layout would ramp up the premium seating at the pointy end of the plane. "The issue is has it got enough business class, has it got enough premium economy" McDonald explains, "and as you take that seta count down you'll lift the range up." McDonald said that a second wave of 787-9s could support a further push into the Asia-Pacific market or take over North American routes from the Boeing 777-200. "Both are possible. As the 777-200 fleet gets older and we look at its replacement, this becomes an obvious candidate but to do that we’d probably need to give it a bit more range and the way to do that is shrink (the capacity)." However, McDonald all but ruled out the Boeing 787-10, which may be larger than the -9 but lacks its sibling's extended range, as "the 787-10 won't do trans-Pacific."
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Post by ErrolC on Jul 11, 2014 10:33:17 GMT 12
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Post by beagle on Jul 11, 2014 14:51:01 GMT 12
doesn't show up on flight tracker24, well I could not find it, but will watch the live stream in an hour
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Post by ErrolC on Jul 11, 2014 15:51:11 GMT 12
It's on Flight Aware flightaware.com/live/flight/ANZ6789The live stream is weather dependant, and the front has just hit. Edit, in ADS-B coverage as of a few minutes ago, so on FR24 now
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Post by beagle on Jul 11, 2014 17:02:52 GMT 12
yes just watched it land etc by the live stream.
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Post by Andy U on Jul 11, 2014 19:18:03 GMT 12
Horrible weather at NZAA for the arrival!
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Post by beagle on Jul 12, 2014 8:14:00 GMT 12
it looks much bigger than I thought with people around it.
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Post by bell407 on Jul 12, 2014 15:10:26 GMT 12
I never liked it before, but now, it is awesome. the pic above is really nice and mine arrived today, one day after the real one. Here it is, Phoenix Air New Zealand 1:400 scale Boeing 787-9 die cast metal.
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Post by beagle on Jul 12, 2014 19:13:21 GMT 12
wow, may I ask how much
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jul 12, 2014 19:24:04 GMT 12
NZ$89.95 according to THIS website.
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Post by beagle on Jul 12, 2014 20:51:34 GMT 12
cheers mate. I like this scheme but also like and prefer the new black and white scheme. I haven't seen any images of the aircraft that is going to Farnborough. I am assuming it is in the black and white scheme
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Post by lindstrim on Jul 12, 2014 21:48:53 GMT 12
By the pics on the internet it appears to be in the Boeing factory scheme.
The next one has just left the factory and is not flying yet. (KPAE Blog info used)
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Post by ErrolC on Jul 12, 2014 22:35:23 GMT 12
By the pics on the internet it appears to be in the Boeing factory scheme. The next one has just left the factory and is not flying yet. (KPAE Blog info used) Boeing issued a press release on July 2nd, saying they were sending their ZB001. On July 7th, AirNZ said "An Air New Zealand Boeing 787-9 aircraft will participate in the prestigious biennial Farnborough International Airshow in the UK next week." Various places around the net have said that the AirNZ one for Farnborough will be the 5th delivered to AirNZ. This is what has always been said of aircraft ZB002, it will be refurbed to AirNZ fitout once its part in the test program is finished. The 787-9 at Farnborough currently is definitely in the Boeing scheme, serial/rego unreadable. ZB002 got swapped in for ZB001? ZB002 is doing a flyby at some point? Boeing PRAirNZ PRJust found this tweet, showing what was presumably the display validation at Farnborough, suggests the one there currently is ZB001.
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Post by bell407 on Jul 12, 2014 22:42:49 GMT 12
I paied NZ$59.95 including shipping from a shop in Australia, I could of paid $90 for it if I bought it from a shop in Rotorua (The one linked to above), or there is one for $80 if I got it from the shop here in Auckland, but I find I save about NZ$20 including shipping if I get them from Australia or the USA. This is my Air New Zealand fleet as of tonight, I should be getting ZK-OKR, the newest ANZ 777-300ER in the new white and black scheme in a few weeks All are die cast metal and all are 1:400 scale, so the 747-400 is about the size of my hand. I don't want to hijack this thread anymore but if anyone is interested I can start a thread on these models in the modeling section, right now I have 15 of these models, this includes C-17's and C-130's as well as some more commercial airliners all in metal and all 1:400 scale.
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