People who know me well know that I am a huge aviation enthusiast. So naturally I was completely drawn to this cool new site from Boeing, newairplane.com, which provides a great multimedia introduction to Boeing’s latest aircraft innovations.

Check out the 787 Dreamliner site and click on “Step on board the 787″ to see how the developers integrated an innovative overlay of hotspots that pause the video playback to seamlessly offer detailed information on various areas of the aircraft interior.

For those of you who are also aviation enthusiasts, I have been told by a pilot friend that one of the most interesting new features in the 787 is that it is built with composite materials instead of aluminum which makes the aircraft lighter so it can fly further on less fuel - and more interesting - it means they can pump more moisture into the cabin during a flight because they don’t have to worry about rust, which means no more dry eyes by the end of those transoceanic flights.

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