Why Did Boeing Build The 747 Dreamlifter?

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  • @NeedSpeedRC
    @NeedSpeedRC 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I live about 10 miles from Boeing factory in Everett, (PAE). The Dream Lifter screams over my house at least 2-3 times/week. It’s beautiful to see the 747 fly over.

  • @jacob1029
    @jacob1029 4 ปีที่แล้ว +148

    Short answer: To get one over on Airbus's Beluga

    • @jhmcd2
      @jhmcd2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Actually the Beluga is Airbus' attempt to get one over on Boeing, they build the Guppy any a more modern version of it (or at least one of the companies they bought did).

    • @miks564
      @miks564 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jame M
      Actually it is the other way around.
      Airbus Beluga started operation 12 years earlier than Boeing Dreamlifter.

    • @buckhorncortez
      @buckhorncortez 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@miks564 And the Pregnant Guppy was built in 1962 from a Boeing 377. So, if you're trying for some kind of who did it first contest - you lose. in fact, Airbus used a Super Guppy in the early 1970's to transport fuselage sections between different assembly locations. Isn't that ironic? Using a modified BOEING aircraft to transport Airbus parts? BTW - the Beluga is a lot smaller and has far less cargo carrying capacity than the Dream Lifter.

    • @miks564
      @miks564 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Buckhorn Cortez
      Actually the Beluga XL has a bigger volume capacity than the Dreamlifter.
      And this isn’t about what company did what first. Boeing has started 100 years ago, it has twice the age.
      This is to point that the Beluga didn’t possibly came after the Dreamlifter because it actually came first, and these companies do not waste money building cargo versions of their aircraft for their own use because of someone else has built something. They build them because they actually need them.
      These are not marketable aircraft. They only build them for their own operations.
      And despite having arrive much later, Airbus has had many firsts in modern aviation, and the proof is there for anyone to see. It is now Boeing the one playing catch up.

    • @mago97615
      @mago97615 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@miks564 you WON here !

  • @robertm_50
    @robertm_50 4 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    The Dreamlifter gives birth to a Dreamliner

    • @jhmcd2
      @jhmcd2 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks, because I needed that image.

  • @rajdeepparab
    @rajdeepparab 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I'm trying to gain intrest in aviation
    Thanks to this channel just subbed a week back and the content is amazing

  • @vondahe
    @vondahe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Alternative use: Three floor passenger aircraft for ultra low cost flights across the Atlantic.

    • @14rans
      @14rans 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Unfortunately only the flight deck is pressurized. Shape of fuselage will not support being pressurized (shape)

    • @vondahe
      @vondahe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Michael Adams It was meant as a joke. With three floors there would leave no room for luggage, but at least part of the level below the main deck is pressurised on some 747s because the older models have various systems down there which can be accessed in flight through either a hatch in the floor or a small lift.

    • @pupplementarypupplements5804
      @pupplementarypupplements5804 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@14rans Thanks for the clarification, I didn't know that

  • @jhmcd2
    @jhmcd2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I've actually seen both the Dreamlifter and the Supper Guppy. I used to fly into Charleston on a regular basis, and used to see it there all the time. Saw the Guppy at an airshow.

  • @raypenamora5419
    @raypenamora5419 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    In anchorage you see an-124, 747 freighters and dreamlifters,737 cargo,757 cargo,767 cargo 777cargo and more all the time...

    • @Girdwoodian
      @Girdwoodian 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yep, and Raptors, C-17's and AWACS at JBER.

    • @echmiles1306
      @echmiles1306 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      its my fav airport (Cargo wise) i usually get flights to and from ANC from MIA, right now the second dreamlifter is here for her maintenance. its the second time ive ever saw one :))

  • @xcofcd
    @xcofcd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    This thing is the hunchback of Seattle

    • @gooner72
      @gooner72 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Everything coming out of Boeing is a hideous monster at the moment......

  • @tl5606
    @tl5606 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    “Is the longest cargo aircraft” excuse me but the C-5 and AN-225 would like to chat.

    • @wankhairulanuar1784
      @wankhairulanuar1784 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      AN225: send me location, location!!!

    • @riliryrimaddyvia9630
      @riliryrimaddyvia9630 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hello you forgot about Russian planes.

    • @tl5606
      @tl5606 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lovevia Madeenah like what? All the big non US planes are Ukrainian. I can’t think of a single Russian transport that is larger than the dreamlifter.

    • @riliryrimaddyvia9630
      @riliryrimaddyvia9630 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@tl5606 the An 225

    • @tl5606
      @tl5606 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lovevia Madeenah I mentioned the An, it’s also Ukrainian not Russian.

  • @TairnKA
    @TairnKA 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Now that would be the ultimate private jet (3 bdrm, 21/2 bath with swimming pool and hot tub). ;-)

  • @mrizis5520
    @mrizis5520 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    But what was before it like which vhecial or thing carried the parts for the 707 ?

    • @independenceaviation2955
      @independenceaviation2955 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      M Riz Is Back then Boeing manufactured almost everything in the same place, Everett, Washington, and the few things that weren’t were transported using ships and trains. Nowadays more stuff is created worldwide but Boeing still makes a lot of things in the same place. The dream lifter was mostly made to transfer parts for the 787 from their North Charleston plant to their Everett plant.

  • @bsosmoove
    @bsosmoove 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I live in Charleston and I see this aircraft all the time. Definitely a beauty in the sky

  • @Brick-Life
    @Brick-Life 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    1:05 Best B747

  • @elweewutroone
    @elweewutroone 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    “On the *T A R M A C* in Taiwan”
    *SCREAMS IN RUNWAY*

  • @Brick-Life
    @Brick-Life 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i live in melbourne and went to the seattle boeing factory and saw 2 of the 4 boeing dreamlifter in sep 2019

  • @yann5427
    @yann5427 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    1:39 *TARMAC*

    • @shebbs1
      @shebbs1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Your point?

    • @Brick-Life
      @Brick-Life 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      so? tarmac is the material

  • @youssef9967
    @youssef9967 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks for this amazing content

  • @amxlopez8082
    @amxlopez8082 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I keep on asking myself: how can those PW 4062, GE CF6-80C2B5F, RR RB211-524G/H engine can Carrie that aircraft.

    • @dmc2554
      @dmc2554 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They do it with aplomb.

    • @Darknamja
      @Darknamja 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dmc2554 😎👍

    • @p1xlb522
      @p1xlb522 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Because it has 4 of those, but I'm still in question of what kind of black magic airbus does lifting the belugaxl with only 2 RR T700

  • @shebbs1
    @shebbs1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Saw the original in Seattle, before it was painted, early 2007. Was more interested in the An-124 parked near it, but it was impressive.

  • @tubs1725
    @tubs1725 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    interesting!

  • @Eyskapz
    @Eyskapz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    But wait what transporter the parts for the dreams lifter

  • @lc8438
    @lc8438 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I saw 2 at the Boeing factory! It was amazing to see the actual scale of these beasts of planes.

  • @robwever7139
    @robwever7139 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can you also show meters etc?

  • @royberkhof6166
    @royberkhof6166 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why does the dreamlifter not have winglets? Does it have to do with the short range and the winglets only being effective at longer haul? I know the -400D didn’t have winglets either

  • @suzannemarienau2760
    @suzannemarienau2760 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    This narrator sounds like the Geico gecko.

    • @dmc2554
      @dmc2554 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Roit.

    • @howardkerr8174
      @howardkerr8174 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I thought he sounded like a close relative of Roddy McDowell.

  • @gooner72
    @gooner72 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm surprised it took Boeing so long to do this, Airbus had been doing this for ages.

  • @theshadowman1398
    @theshadowman1398 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was in love when I saw it for the first time a decade ego

  • @이주연-x4x
    @이주연-x4x 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Boeing: How should we transport this parts?
    Airbus:(Use Beluga)
    Boeing: Let's make a Boeing version

    • @ethansaviation2672
      @ethansaviation2672 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yet I don't think the beluga can take wide bodies

  • @adrianzurek636
    @adrianzurek636 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:39, I thought you were an aviation channel?

  • @airforce556
    @airforce556 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Do what is the crj705

  • @RabidLeroy
    @RabidLeroy 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Best case scenario: perhaps if the A380 scales back after the epidemic grounded them, we’d probably see the Dreamlifter variant actually have double decker passenger carriage for long haul flights. Pipe dream maybe, but currently in aviation there’s a power vaccuum waiting to grace the skies once more.

  • @nspotmedia
    @nspotmedia 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Its pretty obvious tho, they need a transporter

  • @thecontrarian5503
    @thecontrarian5503 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Because it looks cool, that´s why.

  • @Titot182
    @Titot182 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why did Boeing build the dreamlifter? - "Overnight parts from... JAPAN!" Jesse would be happy

  • @pilotsam004
    @pilotsam004 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can u pls make a vid about wizz air

  • @darrellbedford4857
    @darrellbedford4857 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Swing away tail on the Beluga and Dreamlifter an new idea, I don't think so. Canadair CL44 had swing away tails and was first flown in 1959, and went into service in 1960.

  • @Ukraine2011
    @Ukraine2011 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I see them quite often over my house on a flight radar app going between Seattle and North Carolina

  • @xcofcd
    @xcofcd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Boeing: Airbus is so inefficient with their manufacturing all over Europe.
    Also Boeing: Let's get those wings from Japan.

    • @arrow-flight
      @arrow-flight 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Did Boeing ever say that?

  • @xpxp2839
    @xpxp2839 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1:05 china airline (Taiwan) not air china

  • @mrizis5520
    @mrizis5520 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Is it just ironic Airbus planes were made on the bases of Boeing
    The super guppy was actually a Boeing made aircraft.

    • @lex1945
      @lex1945 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      from time to time, beluga's fly right over my house. Always fun to see and track them on flightradar24

    • @HearthomeChargersDawn
      @HearthomeChargersDawn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      When Boeing is not there, Airbus would be only a dream

    • @lex1945
      @lex1945 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@HearthomeChargersDawn Airbus is a dream, and Boeing is nowadays a total nightmare

    • @DorianTMChannel
      @DorianTMChannel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lex1945 No

    • @lex1945
      @lex1945 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@DorianTMChannel yes

  • @normg2242
    @normg2242 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I thought the thumbnail was clickbait, but it's not...!

  • @psk5746
    @psk5746 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    How can off shoring plane manufacturing be cheaper if you don't do the whole plane off shore?
    Don't get it. Makes sense for software, but ... ?

  • @mathias8987
    @mathias8987 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    They should make a dreamlifter-2 from a 747-8

  • @milokirk1363
    @milokirk1363 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Boeing sure likes using the word dream

  • @SFS_RAID
    @SFS_RAID 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Now make that into a passenger plane

  • @chinuexe
    @chinuexe 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Boeing bought four 747-400s."
    *audible confusion*

  • @peterebel7899
    @peterebel7899 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Short answer: To lift dreams

  • @shebongpascual8527
    @shebongpascual8527 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    imagine this, a few of these planes to fight fire anywhere in the world and water delivery to drought stricken location anywhere in the world.

    • @miks564
      @miks564 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mary Magat
      These planes can carry more volume but not more weight.

  • @cnordegren
    @cnordegren 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I assume these are all powered by PW engines.

    • @jasonthomas9364
      @jasonthomas9364 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      cnordegren you are correct in saying that

  • @ChakkyCharizard
    @ChakkyCharizard 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    These fuckers fly over me near daily. The approach path to Paine takes them directly over my house. They are LOUD! You can always tell one from other planes as the engines have a very unique, almost tinny sound. And they dwarf everything else in the sky.

  • @jaidenjackson222
    @jaidenjackson222 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    You answered to the tittle in first 20 seconds

  • @supa_hot_ice5449
    @supa_hot_ice5449 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    To transport parts for the Dreamliner.

  • @bren70ssss94
    @bren70ssss94 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Aww it's pregnant 😁

  • @youngz13o
    @youngz13o 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mpg must be horrible

  • @richard425
    @richard425 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Looks like it has a Goiter

  • @4toes1nose
    @4toes1nose 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    When a corporation will go to these Lengths to save time and money then something basically wrong with the system. If the goal is to pay upper management tens of millions of dollars a year for coming up with these ideas, that everything is working just fine

  • @hamdillahmetali1276
    @hamdillahmetali1276 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My friend keeps on asking this

  • @alcofribasnasier1838
    @alcofribasnasier1838 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    So that's the next project after the 737 Nightmaregiver?

    • @zahir2942
      @zahir2942 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Odelaly The Rogue 737 Dreamkiller

  • @trevorgwelch7412
    @trevorgwelch7412 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    ... to transport alien air craft and life forms ?

  • @смиренный-х2б
    @смиренный-х2б 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    If anyone has interest in the dream lifter subscribe to 74Gear, he’s a dream lifter pilot

  • @heddixkandi1696
    @heddixkandi1696 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Because why not?

  • @Daniel-cy2ph
    @Daniel-cy2ph 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why not just build the 787 in the place where the parts are? I don't get this whole "let's build a wing here, the engines there and put all together at the other end of the world" Sorta like "Hey let's build rockets at THE OTHER END of the country so we have to ship them two weeks to get to the launch site". Can someone please explain? To me it looks like there's just a lotta money wasted on transporting stuff from a to b to c and from there to the other end of the alphabet

  • @timsullivan2130
    @timsullivan2130 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    To carry big stuff.

  • @BlueJazzBoyNZ
    @BlueJazzBoyNZ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why Did they Build an Aircraft that looks Like it has cancerous growths ?

  • @balasmj
    @balasmj 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Imagine a billioniare customising this model to multi storey.

  • @itzfaroff456
    @itzfaroff456 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They are pretty fat it's like a pregnant 747 or a too thick 747 which makes it look kinda ugly..

  • @TheLikeys
    @TheLikeys 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Let's just agree on it looking a bit bulky.. in my opinion, Airbus' Belugas look and feels much sleeker ;)

  • @gabrielcurias1762
    @gabrielcurias1762 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2:38 Philippine airline 747

  • @VGWKI
    @VGWKI 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    very large plane

  • @echmiles1306
    @echmiles1306 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Im more the Dreamlifter guy and my girlfriend is more the Beluga XL girl, both never seen the Beluga, ive already seen the dreamlifter twice... i think i know who gets the crown

  • @Asj-ze5is
    @Asj-ze5is 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    For the same reason airbus built the beluga

  • @davidkaplan5754
    @davidkaplan5754 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Boeing shpuld build the entire 787

  • @miguelsaez340
    @miguelsaez340 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Calling airbus would have been cheaper

  • @annanguyen2dtoc
    @annanguyen2dtoc 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    For Area 51 usage, who knows?

  • @MrJoe1129uscg
    @MrJoe1129uscg 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Evergreen built the dreamlifter, not Boeing

  • @RENDRAANJASMARA
    @RENDRAANJASMARA 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dreamlifter, dreamliner, dream er

  • @Ravenscaller
    @Ravenscaller 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The most obvious thing you could have answered is what happened to them.

  • @MartinInAmsterdam
    @MartinInAmsterdam 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    METRIC FFS!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @BKGStudios
    @BKGStudios 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    lol boeing bought a plane back that they made : )

  • @philipward7846
    @philipward7846 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    When it rains they become wet Dreamlifters

  • @nazbmn242
    @nazbmn242 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Honestly this plane looks damn ugly, I kinda liked Boeing,i mean just look at the front part of the plane,it is a boeing 747 attached to the an airbus Beluga

  • @philipwalton4877
    @philipwalton4877 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Because Beluga

  • @莊章誠
    @莊章誠 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    台灣長榮航太改裝

  • @PabloGonzalez-hv3td
    @PabloGonzalez-hv3td 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    To lift dreams

  • @squatchpnw2331
    @squatchpnw2331 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Boeing needs to get it's shit together.

  • @nobs997
    @nobs997 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The bigger the lump the better the profit

  • @jakubmusia8282
    @jakubmusia8282 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Because its THICC

  • @Brick-Life
    @Brick-Life 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Airbus's Beluga is better looks better

  • @rajatsinha6607
    @rajatsinha6607 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    C H O N K

  • @kludgedude
    @kludgedude 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just make in USA then you don’t need this

  • @wellsjn1
    @wellsjn1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Boeing A380

  • @a_man_has_no_name
    @a_man_has_no_name 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    looks like a 747 on steroids

  • @skywalkier
    @skywalkier 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mega mind

  • @AnhNgo-qd9ug
    @AnhNgo-qd9ug 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Oh SHOOT 7TH COMMENT ( COVID-19 ) PRETEND WHAT I SAID IS FUNNY

  • @rEdf196
    @rEdf196 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Jet Blimp

  • @fredferd965
    @fredferd965 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Shame on Boeing! The aircraft and all of its parts should have been made in the United States!!!!

  • @haggisfartsplays9169
    @haggisfartsplays9169 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    19 comment

  • @sevenlux7093
    @sevenlux7093 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's an impressive Airplane for sure. But IMHO it's ugly.

  • @pashapasovski5860
    @pashapasovski5860 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Because 737 was a Nightmare!

  • @SW-zu7ve
    @SW-zu7ve 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    To carry shit. Not difficult to understand.......