787 Dreamliner

Boeing is the largest company and producer of airplanes. Years back, they introduced a design for the all new Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The super airliner was designed to be on the same central network for all things, including passenger connectivity. The Federal Aviation Administration had never seen anything like the Dreamliner and didn’t know how to address the problem of figuring out the safety concerns and the legality of the new plane. There are benefits and risks of using a common network for all onboard operations. One benefit of the common network system is that it makes for an overall lighter system because of the lack of hard copies of paper for maintenance and can use the extra weight not being used for other equipment. According to Kevin Gosling of the Boeing website article E-enabled Capabilities of the 787 Dreamliner, “It provides flight operations and maintenance personnel with data in digital formats to streamline the updating process, reduce errors, and eliminate the costs associated with shipping, handling, revising, and maintaining paper documents”. With this, the lack of paper documents could reduce the time and money needed to search and keep those hard copy documents. With everything being maintained wirelessly and …show more content…
This means that if the network needs an update, it can be done via wireless LAN during the preflight operations or whenever really. The wireless aspect of the new design really will save time and in the end, money. I don’t know the blue prints of the plane but I imagine it is pretty huge and that the computer part of the plane is tucked away somewhere, could you imagine running a cord through the plane trying to update the system? Wireless really is the way of the