In May 2007, an airplane named “Dreamliner”, which Boeing came up with as the secret weapon to react to the growing marketing share of Airbus, was supposed to have its first test flight, but who could ever imagine the test flight was pushed back to November 2010. Let’s start with the origin of 787Dreamliner. At that time(1990s), Airbus was taking market shares from Boeing, to prevent the further loss against Airbus, Boeing decided to design a brand-new product to create more values rather than cutting the cost of current products. There 787Dreamliner goes, unlike any previous airplanes made by aluminum, 787Dreamliner was the first airplane manufactured with carbon-composites, with the lighter weight of carbon-composites compared to aluminum, 20% of fuel can be saved during each flight. Also, an electronic system with aluminum battery was designed part of the airplane to increase the purchasing satisfaction of its immediate customers(airlines). To better […]