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It has awesome range
7800nm, not to shabby! Though the aircraft can do ~8000nm on a full fuel load (about 227,500lbs) that means it's payload capacity is down from 113,000lbs to only about 35,000lbs in this config. Between fuel and payload being maxed it puts the aircraft about 80,000lbs (16%) over mtow. "Anything we can afford to lose, see that it's lost!"
According to BusinessWeek (http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-11/boeing-takes-dreamliner-tailwind-to-dubai-as-airbus-a350-slips.html) this is to be displayed at an airshow in Dubai.
It's interesting that its route avoids Russian and Iraqi airspace, but seems to have no trouble overflying Iranian airspace. Anyone know why this is?
I don't think they intentionally avoided them.
http://www.flightradar24.com/BOE787
If youre still watching. ;)
If youre still watching. ;)
I dispatch for a GA operator out of YYZ. Last flight I sent to DXB was routed down to Cairo then through Saudi Arabia. Unless they've got enough insurance coverage to go over Turkey, through Iraq and straight in.