New 787 Dreamliner New Aviation Era!

New 787 Dreamliner New Aviation Era!

With its introduction of the new 787 Dreamliner, Boeing, the premiere airline manufacturer, hopes to revolutionize both the way commercial a... 1:44 PM

With its introduction of the new 787 Dreamliner, Boeing, the premiere airline manufacturer, hopes to revolutionize both the way commercial airlines are built and improve the way consumers fly. Aside from exceeding all existing aircrafts in comfort and cutting-edge technology, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is unique in its utilization of composite materials. While aerospace engineers have long sought materials with the perfect combination of physical properties, Boeing's designers have found the right blend of materials that will increase fuel efficiency, decrease production waste, and expedite assembly time, all while providing a stylish and more comfortable travel vehicle.
The key to Boeing’s novel design is “a suite of new technologies” that are being put together for the first time. The most exciting of these technologies is the composite material. Composites are heterogeneous materials that express properties of its constituent materials. By combining different materials, the physical properties of the materials can be customized for different applications. For example, polymer-matrix composites, the type of composite used in the Dreamliner, are used in a wide variety of applications including for military aircrafts, helicopter rotor blades, tennis rackets, and circuit boards.1 The main polymer-matrix material used in the 787 Dreamliner is an epoxy matrix that integrates carbon fibers.