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[narrator] Its sheer size astonishes.
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It's as tall as a 6-story building,
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2/3 as long as an American football field, and it's made of 6 million parts.
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And oh, yeah, it flies.
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In fact, early versions have carried more than 5½ billion people,
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the equivalent of 80% of the world's population.
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Now Boeing has reinvented the iconic 747,
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a task just as monumental as the airplane itself.
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[747-8 Engine Integration]
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[Grace Balut Ostrom] [Associate Technical Fellow, Boeing Propulsion Controls Group]
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The 747-8 is our new version of the 747.
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We've changed it. We've upgraded it.
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To bring about that change you have to be innovative.
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You have to be innovative and creative.
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You have to think of new solutions and new methods of
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bringing upon the changes that you're looking for.
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[narrator] Adding a new wing to a jetliner is a very big task.
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Adding 4 gigantic new engines at the same time is like designing a whole new airplane.
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Making the job even more challenging,
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airlines wanted the 747-8 to feel and fly like Legacy 747s
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that pilots and passengers know and love.
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This commonality saves airlines millions in flight crew training.
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[Ostrom] What my job entails is integrating
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a complex system like the engine onto a complex system like an airplane
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to make sure that the engine computer communicates with the airplane computers
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and the airplane computers work with the engine computers.
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[narrator] For a number of reasons, it's essential that the new wing,
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engines, and airplane systems work in perfect combination.
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That's why the Boeing engine controls team spent months in some
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of the most advanced labs of their kind.
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The team tested every imaginable scenario before an engine
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was ever placed on the wing.
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[Ostrom] People don't see behind the scenes
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how much work we put into it.
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And then we have an extensive flight test program where we
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run the system through the wringers.
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[narrator] The new Queen of the Skies is called the 747-8
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because it's based on 787 technology.
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The wing is lighter with greatly improved aerodynamics,
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and the engines are the cleanest, quietest, and most fuel-efficient
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turbofans ever built for an aircraft of this size.
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[Ostrom] On the propulsion side, the 2 big improvements are
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fuel efficiency and a 30% reduction in noise
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compared to its predecessor, the 747-400.
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[narrator] With its new wing and engines, the 747-8
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is powerful enough to lift nearly a million pounds and fly
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almost 8,000 nautical miles.
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But chances are, the only difference most passengers will ever feel
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is that their flight is quieter, which for some people is a really good thing.
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