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Forget plastic food, cramped seats and counting down the minutes until touchdown. Now you can look to the stars in the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner aeroplane. This luxury jet boasts gourmet restaurants, sleek interiors and seats so cozy that you'll never want to leave.
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The restaurant on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is seen in this 2007 concept photo.
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Another view of the Dreamliner's restaurant and library is seen in this 2007 concept photo.
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This cutaway display shows the design of the Dreamliner's bathroom in 2007.
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A Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft does a flyby at the Farnborough Airshow, in Hampshire, England on July 18. Aerospace giant Boeing said on July 15 that it might delay the delivery of the first 787 Dreamliner aircraft until 2011.
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Boeing's Mary Hanson tests the overhead bins on Dreamliner No. 3 as the company gives a tour of the jet's interior on Feb. 3 at Paine Field in Everett, Wash.
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Dreamliner 787 flightline technicians Paul Coy (l.) and Nathan Nelson are seen in the number 3 Dreamliner cockpit.
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Boeing's long-delayed 787 Dreamliner sits on the tarmac after its first flight and landing at Boeing Field in Seattle on Dec. 15, 2009.
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The Dreamliner 787 interior contains new electronic dimming windows to replace the old shade system.
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Inside the Global Aeronautica factory in North Charleston, S.C., workers join four sections of the 787 Dreamliner's midfuselage, then install components and systems.
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The command control of the Boeing 787 is pictured from the inside.
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A Boeing employee sits next to a tinted window on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Farnborough airport in Farnborough, southern England on July 18.
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The interior of the Boeing Dreamliner's passenger cabin is pictured.
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The Toray composite plant in Fredrickson, Wash. takes carbon thread and creates something that looks like duct tape - carbon fiber impregnated with epoxy resin and hardener. The product is used to make the Boeing 787 Dreamliner tailfin.
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The FAA still needs to approve the results of the test flight and certify the battery system. Boeing's 787 Dreamliner has been grounded since mid-January because of smoldering batteries.
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Brad Knickerbocker, Staff writer /
April 5, 2013
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