Passenger transcontinental airliner Boeing 777-200 is unique in many ways. First, it is the largest twin-engine aircraft designed for transporting people. Second, it embodied cutting-edge technological ideas. Thirdly, it can without landing to fly over half the globe. Fourth, its design took into account the views of passengers, thus it has become the most affordable aircraft in the world. Fifth, it was created in an environment of extremely fierce competition, when it was time for decommissioning aircraft L-101 and DC-10, which he supposed was to be replaced, and evrokontsern Airbus also on alert. Sixth, almost a fifth of all units and units of the American machines, made in… Japan firms Fuji, Kawasaki and Mitsubishi.
There are other reasons to consider the Boeing 777-200 phenomenon outstanding. The main thing is that by the standards of the world of aviation, the liner in our day can be considered state of the art, it is “put on the wing” in the mid-nineties.
Innovations began already at the design stage. The Boeing 777-200 was the first aircraft in the world civil aviation, in designing of which all the drawing work was done by automated jobs and even the Assembly of the prototype was carried out in virtual mode. Remote control is via fiber-optic conductors, the glider is constructed largely with the use of carbon composites, and for passengers and crew has created unprecedented conditions of comfort and security.
Time, which can continuously carry out the Boeing 777-200 in the air, reaches eighteen hours, so rest is necessary not only for the guests of the aircraft, but also its constant inhabitants – pilots and stewards. For them, arranged beds, and it is made so that the useful volume of the fuselage was used as efficiently as possible. Such a comfort – not just care for employees of airlines or a whim because of the demands of the unions and established regulations for the duration of the working day.
Another innovation characteristic of the aircraft, a Boeing 777-200, the cabin is a flexible structure. If necessary, it can be changed, as the number of seats in different classes. All, depending on the selected layout, the Boeing 777-200 can hold from 300 to 440 passengers. Chairs in rows first or business class and seven in economy class – nine.
Depending on what the demand for tickets, as well as the duration of the flight the Boeing 777, the cabin can be chosen by the operating airline, in this case, and partitions, and kitchen and toilets can also change its position. By the way, this liner is designed even a special toilet that gently lowered the lid.
Although the Boeing 777-aircraft, aviation standards, young but still a period during which it operates, considerable – eighteen years, and the number of cars, which exceeded one thousand two hundred pieces, we can talk about this model as very reliable. Flight accidents are very few, and so far they have not led to the death of the passengers in any country in the world.
The Russian airlines, including Aeroflot and Transaero, also using a Boeing 777-200.
