Boeing crews have been refurbishing the plane since then, a project that required splitting the plane in half to install passenger-service amenities that are normally installed on the factory line.
Until now Bombardier has specialised in 50-100-seater regional and business jets.Bombardier's boss, Paul Tellier, has hired a Boeing executive who worked on the 737, the world's most successful plane, to lead a project to develop a new Bombardier model carrying up to 130 passengers, competing head-on with 737s and Airbus A320s.
Two larger companies, Google and EarthLink, planed a similar project but scraped the idea because of cost.
Second, this is not about Cortana flying planes; instead, it's a project designed to use data analysis on the likely gigantic set of info processed every day through Boeing's systems with the end goal of eliminating time and effort wasted on frequently repeated processes.
On a more conventional plane, the project blueprints also call for a cavernous retail mall and what Mohegan Sun officials say will be the largest ballroom in the Northeast.
Its silhouette is subtly tapered, he says, so its facades converge at an imaginary focal point 10 times its height – a learned nod to Edwin Lutyens Cenotaphh memorial in Whitehall, whose planes meet at a projected spot 1,000ft in the air.
The first three are happening today, where Seattle Aquarium staff will take classes participating underwater; the Minnesota Zoo explores the Black Bear and their habit of sleeping through the colder seasons; and Solar Impulse, a long-range solar plane project, offers a chance to speak with the founders and learn about the design of its wing and cockpit.
With its jagged skyline and sunken ground plane, the project does make a graphically powerful first impression.
"The explosion was very strong, like a sonic boom from a fighter plane," said a housing project resident, Abdel Kader.
With the projection path of the rays mapped out, the 3D position of an individual spot reflected from an object of unknown shape could be determined by finding its position on the camera's image plane and projecting a ray through the 'pinhole' to intersect with its known projection path.
That shape, projected onto a plane, is the projected area.
