Rain and Orders: Day One at the 2011 Paris Air Show

The first day of the 2011 Paris Air Show began with rain, included several orders for Boeing airplanes, and ended with the 747-8 Freighter landing after an historic transatlantic flight powered by a biofuel blend. Boeing's Jarrod Bartlett wraps up the day's events in this video.

[Alwayzsmilin]

I'd love to attend the Paris Air Show, would be so awesome!

[sthill]

@AviadorLPA Aren't Boeing the ones making the 787 the first plane to be mostly made of carbon fibre composites?

[BOACMach]

@guynamedoliver Yes, shadowed by the fact they are "undisclosed" or in negociation. The truth is that 15 of the 17 are the subject of political gerrymandering between the Chinese hierarchy and the EU. I think Boeing maybe a pawn in the political game.

[AviadorLPA]

Boeing make aircrafts, Airbus just make plastic fly! :D