look inside the Boeing Dreamliner Factory for Royal Brunei Airlines’ first Dreamliner.
AZHANI DANIEL {twas the silence as much as the scale that caused us to pause upon stepping ontothe factory floor where Royal Brunei’s two new Dreamliners await final assembly, Approaching the 787 factory in Everett, Washington, we all struggled to make sense of building that covers almost hundred acres ands, by volume, the largest building ever constructed, Once inside, sense of calm pervaded, with none of the anticipated rattle of rivet guns or clamourof typical workshop
The 787 Dreamliner is built for super-efficiency
new breed of plane, designed and and unparalleled passenger comfort.
Composed of single piece of composite, 1,500 sheets of aluminium that go into the Dreamliner has 80 percent reduction
rather than the standard airliner, in fasteners allowing
On this day, we finally laid eyes on the first two of an eventual five Dreamlinersthat willmake up Royal Brunei’s new fleet For us at Royal Brunei Airlines, we had long dreamt of this day.
As the first Southeast Asian airline to receive delivery, and the first to publically commit to 100 percent Dreamliner fleet for all long haul travel, the new planes are matter of national pride for country with population of just 400,000 that could easily fit, within the confines of Boeing’s giant factory. The Dreamliner is nothing short of beautiful. Procuring such an iconic aircraft is major achievement for Brunei Darussalam as well as for the airline, with its 37 years of commitmenttoaward winning service. This was natural fit an aircraft designed with passenger comfortat its heart. And, many of these features were evident in the two sleek white fuselages taking centre stage at the assembly line. Entering the cabin, where Royal Brune’s calming batique design was already fitted, the light streamed through windows that are 30 percent larger than standard aircraft. The touch passengers to choose from five different window tints from clear to 99 percent opaque. the ducting that will supply cleaner, healthierair at lower cabin cabin, is intended to reduce the effects of jet lag
Source: MUHIBAH, the Royal Brunei Airlines in-flight magazine, 2013 Sep-Oct, pages 48-49. Text recovered from the scanned page by OCR and lightly corrected; spelling may differ from the printed edition.
