n
/ 0 5 5
20%
30%
40%
60%
lower fuel
consumption
lower maintenance
costs
better range
smaller noise
footprint
IT’S BETTER
THAN BOEING’S
PREVIOUS MID-
SIZED PLANES
A Boeing 747 takes
4 months
A Boeing 777 takes
49 days
A Boeing 737 takes
11 days
DREAMLINER
GLOBAL CRUISER
STRATOCLIMBER
eLINER
Inflight
entertainment
system uses iPad-
like touchscreens
Humidity is 15%
in the cabin,
compared to 4% on
previous aircraft
HEPA filters
remove airborne
particles
The largest windows
on any commercial
aircraft, with
electronic dimmer
switches
LED mood
lighting, with a
range of colours
$206.8 million
THE 787-8 DREAMLINER (MID-SIZED) COSTS
OR YOU COULD BUY....
IT’S EASIER TO
ASSEMBLE THAN
OTHER PLANES
IT TAKES JUST
FIVE DAYS IN THE
FACTORY TO BUILD
A DREAMLINER
THE NAMES IT
WAS ALMOST
CALLED*
America’s most
expensive home –
timber magnate John
Rudey’s $190 million
pad in Greenwich,
Connecticut
25 Maybach
Exelero cars, which
will set you back
$8 million each –
rapper Birdman has
one, apparently
What it’s like on the inside
LED mood lighting colour chart
dining
resting
rainbow
More than 1 million
holes are drilled
into the Boeing 747
during assembly;
the 787 has fewer
than 10,000 holes...
...and it eliminates
60 miles of
copper wiring
FIVE COOL (GEEKY) THINGS ABOUT THE DREAMLINER
1) It can order its own parts
2) It can automatically adjust to combat turbulence
3) It will self-correct if it’s in distress
4) It’s expected to connect 450 city pairs
5) Cray supercomputers spent 800,000 processing hours on the 787’s design
* Results
of Boeing’s
2003
competition
to name
what was
then called
the 7E7
