How to build an airliner, in 2min30s

[FourWheelDrift]

Time lapse video of a Boeing 737 for Florida's Southwest Airline.

In 720 HD as well - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKnsyYbfC60

[Ritchie335is]

I enjoyed that, its impressive how a "normal" passenger jet looks so good with fresh paint and makes you realise that it is quite special and a real engineering feat, often overlooked.

[Matt Harper]

FourWheelDrift said:

Time lapse video of a Boeing 737 for Florida's Southwest Airline.

In 720 HD as well - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKnsyYbfC60

It's actually Texas's Southwest Airlines...... and they are a bunch of aholes, but their planes look nice. Everything else about SW is a ballache, kind of like EasyJet only more obnoxious.

[pacman1]

Jeez, took as long to build as it did to paint!

[strudel]

That seemed pretty quick to me! How long does it take to build one?

[FourWheelDrift]

strudel said:

That seemed pretty quick to me! How long does it take to build one?

Less than a day it would seem.

Boeing news March 2010 said:

The current 737 build rate is 31.5 units per month and the company expects to make a decision in June on whether to raise it. Last week, Airbus announced it was taking the A320 rate to 36 per month from 34 as of December

[Jonny671]

Very impressive!

I bet the paint department love it when they get a BA Aircraft in, far easier to paint than that busy paint job on there

[DieselGriff]

FourWheelDrift said:

strudel said:

That seemed pretty quick to me! How long does it take to build one?

Less than a day it would seem.

Boeing news March 2010 said:

The current 737 build rate is 31.5 units per month and the company expects to make a decision in June on whether to raise it. Last week, Airbus announced it was taking the A320 rate to 36 per month from 34 as of December

Whilst the production figures are fairly remarkable if you add together all the production of airliners then I'm quite surprised by the demand, especially when longevity is supposed to be getting better.