New Boeing Dreamliner 787 - i predict this plane going down like a stone...
 

i have not found an english source for this yet, but i just read that the onboard entertainment can also be watched on laptops that you bring with you. just one little problem - it comes from the same server on the plane that also runs all flight controls. :error

so: the flight control computer does also play the movies??? and i can plug my laptop in??? WTF???

i'm not sure if thats a good idea - lol

and there are some people on GFY i wouldn't want to be on the same flight with - hehe

i bet they never think about those kinds of things. airline safety is a myth. really they have no idea what they're doing and the 40-50,000 employees basically show up everyday and just play donkey kong and an old nintendo machine all day while watching Myth Busters and eating potato chips.

i guess you are the security inspector then?

not at all... i am agreeing with you. i see no reason why a company like Boeing whose very existence revolves around airline safety, would even think of these things... yet a crappy journalist and a Czech pornographer did.

i'm really impressed.


seriously.

Avionics experts here too - who would have known?

remind me not to fly that one :Oh crap

you two are cute - looks like i found new friends :winkwink:

I'm pretty sure the on board flight control will be a closed-loop system :1orglaugh

this airline crash brought to you by ZANGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh What's up young man :)

lol..thats a great cartoon.

i heard this on CNN this morning....they say the earliest the plan willbe ready is next year june

I'm amazed at how you guys know more than the engineers that design aircraft that cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

Just fucking amazed.

im sure they have security

Going down like a stone eh? Thats why there's been over 800 orders for the plane already and it's not even cleared by the regs yet.

And as far as the server thing goes, as long as its linux it'll run just fine

The FAA have already told Boeing to sort out these problems this is old news as usual by poor journalists, do you honestly think no one at Boeing or the FAA have thought about the possibility of the aircraft being hacked ?
Did like the cartoon though :1orglaugh

Oh and welcome to January
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