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6 unusual facts about Boeing 777


Adobe FrameMaker

Up to this point, FrameMaker had been targeting a professional market for highly technical publications, such as the maintenance manuals for the Boeing 777 project, and licensed each copy for $2,500.

Airplane Information Management System

The Airplane Information Management System (AIMS) is the "brains" of Boeing 777 aircraft.

Computer-aided lean management

The manufacture of the Boeing 777 was ultimately a success, and it became the precursor to succeeding generations of CALM at Boeing.

Leo Visser

After his career as a speed skater, Visser became a pilot and he is now captain on the Boeing 777 for Dutch airline KLM.

Line Communications

In 2009 LINE saved British Airways £984,000 per year on training and related costs with a computer-based training tour of the Boeing 777 aircraft.

Supercritical airfoil

Techniques learned from studies of the original supercritical airfoil sections are used in designing airfoils for high-speed subsonic and transonic aircraft from the Airbus A300 and Boeing 777 to the McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II.


Air data inertial reference unit

On 1 August 2005 a serious incident involving Malaysia Airlines Flight 124, occurred when a Boeing 777-2H6ER (9M-MRG) flying from Perth to Kuala Lumpur also involved an ADIRU fault resulting in uncommanded manoeuvres by the aircraft acting on false indications.

Bovingdon stack

An air traffic controller was blamed by a later enquiry for misdirecting traffic when he ordered a United Airlines Boeing 777 into a level of the Bovingdon Hold (or stack) already occupied by a similar British Airways plane.

Osmani International Airport

After the project any foreign airlines' jumbo jets like Airbus A330, or Boeing 777 could land easily.

RAF Ascension Island

In January 2013, a Delta Air Lines Boeing 777-232LR en route from Johannesburg to Atlanta diverted to Ascension as a result of engine problems.

RNZAF Base Ohakea

Ohakea is a secondary diversion airport for heavy civilian aircraft such as the Boeing 747 and Boeing 777 if both Auckland and Christchurch airports are temporarily closed.


see also

Flight 214

Asiana Airlines Flight 214, a Boeing 777-28EER that crashed in San Francisco in 2013