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This Timelapse Shows How A Gigantic 787-9 Dreamliner Airplane Is Built in 3 Minutes

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Riddle me this? How to the transport an airplane for assembly? It turns out that inside another airplane. Jokes aside, looking at how a 787-9 Dreamliner is built can not leave you indifferent. This $264.6 million behemoth from Boeing is 63 meters long and has a wingspan of about 60 meters, so watching the unit being built from Lego like blocks is quite impressive.

That phase of construction that is time-lapsed is the part where putting pre-made assemblies together happens. This makes about 1000 people busy for a while.

The time lapse not only shows how the body is assembled but takes in inside the plane, under the wings and very close to the engines.

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[Building the 787-9 Dreamliner | British Airways via flyingmag]

P.S. watch carefully to spot how they fix the lavatory. this took away the magic of airborne toilet for me.

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  • Kaouthia

    Woah, wait, what? They BUILT A BIGGER PLANE specifically to carry THIS PLANE’S PARTS?!?! Anybody else find that even more impressive! :D

    • doge

      No.

    • Kay O. Sweaver

      The real question is why they don’t build all the parts at the same location. The Airbus I understand because its a consortium, Boeing on the other hand is one company.

  • Steve Duffey

    The powerplants are normally referred to as engines and not motors. Also, is a laboratory like a lavatory?

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