Why the 787’s One-Piece Composite Fuselage Barrel Changes Everything You Feel on a Long-Haul Flight
Picture the inside of a traditional aluminum airliner fuselage at cruise altitude. The humidity is kept brutally low — somewhere around 5 to 10 percent — because aluminum corrodes. Your skin dries out, your sinuses ache, and by hour ten you feel like you’ve been stored in a jar. That’s not an accident or an…