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A Qantas Airbus A380-800, the aircraft type that operated these flights from 2014-2020.. Qantas Flight 7 (QF7/QFA7) [a] and Qantas Flight 8 (QF8/QFA8) [a] are flights operated by Australian airline Qantas between Sydney Airport and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, which, from 2013 to 2016, were the longest regularly scheduled non-stop commercial flights in the world.
The articles mentioned how glass cockpit components had the added benefit of being a few hundred pounds lighter than the original flight instruments and support systems used in the Space Shuttles. The Space Shuttle Atlantis was the first orbiter to be retrofitted with a glass cockpit in 2000 with the launch of STS-101.
The initial design of the 787 was an evolution of the 767 and 767B designs that had been used by Mazda in 1988 and 1989. The 787 name was used instead of 777 to indicate a two-step improvement over the 767, and possibly over pronunciation difficulties of 777 in Japanese. [3]
Evacuation slide used in an emergency drill. An evacuation slide is an inflatable slide used to evacuate an aircraft quickly. An escape slide is required on all commercial (passenger carrying) aircraft where the door sill height is such that, in the event of an evacuation, passengers would be unable to step down from the door uninjured (Federal Aviation Administration requires slides on all ...
Typically, these problems do not occur at floor level, full sized, exit doors because these are operated in an emergency by flight attendants, who have extensive emergency training. The preferred escape route for passengers, if they exit the overwing doors after an emergency on this EasyJet Airbus A319 -100, is marked by red arrows on a white ...
The 787-8 and 787-9 have 50% commonality: the wing, fuselage and systems of the 787-8 had required radical revision to achieve the payload-range goals of the 787-9. Following a major revamp of the original 787-8 wing, the latest configuration for the 787-9 and −10 is the fourth design evolution.
The MVG Class A of the Munich U-Bahn uses sliding plug doors.. Many passenger trains in the world use sliding plug doors: early examples of passenger trains using plug doors include the MVG Class A of the Munich U-Bahn from 1967, [3] the first batch of trains for Line 2 of the Milan Metro from 1970, [4] and the DT1 of the Nuremberg U-Bahn, also from 1970.
The Porsche Boxster is a mid-engine two-seater roadster. It was Porsche's first road vehicle to be originally designed as a roadster since the 914.The first-generation Boxster (the 986) was introduced in late 1996; it was powered by a 2.5-litre flat six-cylinder engine.