All Things 787

[Noel White]

Thanks Brian, forgot about that web site.

[Sarah C]

It is there for painting = there are a lot of aircraft going through the paint hangar on a regular basis

[Alan Dent]

I came across this link to a video of the 787 preparing for the Farnborough Air show.

http://www.flixxy.com/i-did-not-thin...?utm_source=nl

[Nigel C]

That is some funky flying!

[Mike W]

Incredible. It's even made the mainstream Australian media

[Grahame Hutchison]

From Flightglobal ...

The A350 flew Airbus’s usual impressive aerial display, which included some tight turns and slow flypasts. Boeing’s 787-9’s routine was similar to previous Dreamliner air-show displays, and initially included an impressive touch-and-go followed by a steep, climbing turn.

But Boeing had to remove this manoeuvre from the routine following Monday’s show after Farnborough’s flying control committee deemed it inappropriate for the display.

Boeing is at a loss to explain why this request came despite the manoeuvre having initially been approved during two display-validation flights flown at Farnborough shortly before the show began.

and from the Seattle Times ...

On the opening day of the Farnborough Air Show, the Boeing 787-9 did a spectacular touch-and-go in the afternoon flying display, coming down and touching the tarmac as if to land, then powering up and climbing steeply away.

On the second day, the Air Show authorities banned that maneuver.
“They got red-carded,” said Airbus test pilot Frank Chapman, speaking on a tour of his A350 flight test jet on Wednesday.

He said the airport authority won’t allow either Airbus or Boeing to do it again this week.

“We can all climb steeply,” said Chapman. “What you mustn’t do is turn straight away (on take-off). If the wing hits the ground, it’s over. Their wingtip was 15 feet off the ground. They don’t like you being close to the ground.”

[Joe Frampton]

Originally Posted by Alan Dent

I came across this link to a video of the 787 preparing for the Farnborough Air show.

http://www.flixxy.com/i-did-not-thin...?utm_source=nl

This was filmed at Moses Lake in Central Washington State. Pretty much an airport in the middle of nowhere. Boeing do a lot of test flights around there, but you would have to be really lucky to be there on the right day, almost the same as Everett, where the runway can either be busy, or pretty dead.

[Greg Hyde]

Painting finished

Wednesday, 23 July 2014
VH-VKH B787-8 Jetstar Flown back to Charleston, SC after painting at Victorville, CA
L/N 200 C/N 36233 B787-8 VH-VKH JETSTAR
Dep VCV 08:57 PDT ETA CHS 16:02 EDT
Call Sign BOE221 Hex Code 7C6BBF
37th Charleston Built Aircraft

[Grahame Hutchison]

Air New Zealand B787-9 ZK-NZE will be flying from Auckland to Ohakea Air Base as ANZ6023 at 13:37 NZST.

[Brian Noldt]

Boeing have announced that the 787-10 will only be assembled at their Charleston plant.
This is due to the longer mid section being too long to be transported efficiently in the Dreamlifter.

To date Boeing has 132 orders for the new version and is due to be delivered in 2018.

Press release here:

http://boeing.mediaroom.com/2014-07-...South-Carolina

Brian.