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Old 24th December 2009, 01:53 AM
Gerald A Gerald A is offline
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The second Boeing (NYSE: BA) 787 Dreamliner, ZA002, completed its first flight today. The all-new airplane, which features the livery of the Dreamliner's launch customer, ANA (All Nippon Airways) of Japan, took off from Paine Field in Everett, completed a two-hour flight and landed at Boeing Field in Seattle.


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Old 24th December 2009, 02:15 AM
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Just realised there was this post and viewers may not have seen the other.
Photos of ZA002's departure at PAE and arrival at BFI are on my Flickr page along with the 748F. Sadly the weather was as bad as ZA001 last week.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bfiguy/


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Old 28th December 2009, 01:39 PM
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Interesting article from Wired about the 787's interior features here: http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/12...iner-interior/
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Old 28th December 2009, 10:41 PM
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in regards to the flex of the wings, this is an evolution in wing design from the delta wing design. Similar to the winglets for example on 737NG's (and perhaps the A380 and others) in regards to reducing lift induced drag caused by wingtip vortices.
The flex wing design also has raked wing tip technology! (only just noticed it on Scott L's photos) which both complement performance enhancing efficiency, and safety to a degree. Flex wing, blended winglets & raked wingtip technology tend to be advantageous at higher altitudes.... blah blah,
Viva La Evolution, Viva La Boeing.
And what about the interior, liquid crystal windows, overhead space, just beautiful.
http://www.newairplane.com/787/virtualTour/
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Old 29th December 2009, 02:42 AM
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The wingflex Justin just mentioned is apparent in the third shot and to give you an idea during a side profile the wing on the opposite side reaches up over the fuselage.

787 #1 flew for the second time today (this time in clear winter sunshine)....
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Old 19th February 2010, 11:55 AM
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The 787 testing is really cranking up with BOE1 having logged over 100 flight hours now and BOE2 over 40.

Today BOE1 ramped it up to 0.88 on occasion as it conducted "Flutter" tests.

We are also only days away from BOE4 taking to the air with BOE3 not far behind. There are some fabulous tools for tracking progress on these tests for those interested (like myself)

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/B.../KBFI/tracklog

http://787flighttest.com/
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Old 23rd February 2010, 01:37 PM
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A BOEING 787 on a test flight was forced down after one of its engines lost thrust.
A spokesman for the company said the plane landed safely at a Washington airport after an "uncommanded loss of thrust'' in one of its two engines.

They said the 787 Dreamliner can fly on one engine but common procedure is to land when there's an engine problem.
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Old 23rd February 2010, 04:50 PM
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The problem was a faulty sensor in one of the engines.
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Old 31st March 2010, 05:25 PM
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Wing load test was just completed, a pretty awesome photo is available at:

http://boeing.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=13&item=1072
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Old 13th April 2010, 01:47 PM
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Video of the previous post.

Source News Ltd

http://787flighttest.com/boeing-conf...ate-load-test/

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