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Old 15th October 2019, 05:47 PM
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Further stories on the ZNJ livery and the upcoming first Project Sunrise Research flight on ZNI due to arrive in Sydney on Sunday morning:

Airline Ratings: https://www.airlineratings.com/news/...00th-year-787/

Australian Aviation: https://australianaviation.com.au/20...tenary-livery/

Australian Aviation is saying that:

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The first of these research flights, which aimed to test different approaches to crew and passenger wellbeing for Qantas’s proposed ultra-long haul services, was due to occur on Friday, October 18, when 787-9 VH-ZNI was scheduled to fly nonstop from New York JFK to Sydney.

Flight QF7879 was due to take off from New York JFK at 2100 local time on Friday and land at Sydney at 0710 two days later.
I'll eagerly be monitoring this flight and the other two.
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Old 16th October 2019, 03:13 AM
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Meanwhile production at Everett continues, with VH-ZNK now shown as undergoing final assembly in Position 1.
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Old 16th October 2019, 09:47 AM
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ZNI departed Everett is morning for LAX as QF6027.

The paint on the tail look better.
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Old 16th October 2019, 10:38 AM
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Yes Greg, the paint around the kangaroo feet looks okay now. Jen Schuld is certainly proving her worth with her updates and fabulous photos and videos from Everett. The media is also using her Twitter posts.

ZNI must be getting some minor work done at the QANTAS maintenance facility at LAX before she heads off to JFK leading up to her flight home on Friday.
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Old 16th October 2019, 11:42 AM
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I refer to your post (#477), Dennis where you were surmising the delivery dates of the last three 789s ordered by QANTAS, particularly the 12th aircraft ZNL, which will be needed for the daily flights to Santiago:

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That means that ZNL, number 12 must arrive in June 2020? I understood that the last 3 were all arriving later in 2020.
ZNL, the 12th 789 for QANTAS, in now on the Boeing 787 production spreadsheet with line number 1019. This is a further 90 deliveries from ZNJ, line number 929, which was rolled out on 1/10/19. Based on the 2018 delivery numbers of 12 787s per month it will be 7.5 months until ZNL is rolled out, which equates to mid May, 2020. Given ZNIs conservative one month from roll out to delivery date this would give a delivery date for ZNL of approximately mid June, 2020, tight but in time to operate the first flight to Santiago on 24 June, 2020.

I have no idea of the delivery dates of ZNM or ZNN until they appear on the production spreadsheet and I can do some further calculations.

I appreciate that this is an approximate calculation and numerous issues could occur that delay production of the aircraft but gives an idea of the 12th 789 delivery date. I have done very conservative estimates and the delivery could be as early as the second or even first week of June, 2020, especially if the delivery rate is higher than 12 - it looks to be more like 12.5 for the first nine months of 2019 or the roll out to delivery time is less than a month, as I have seem for some 787s.
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Old 16th October 2019, 03:41 PM
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VH-ZNI is on the way. QF6027 departed PAE at 16.16 PDT 15/10 and arrived at LAX at 18.25 PDT, just over 4 hours ago. Looks like it will be a resident in LAX for a few days.
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Old 16th October 2019, 03:42 PM
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Hi James, thanks. I see that the spreadsheets have been updated again
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Old 16th October 2019, 04:19 PM
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ZNI must be getting some minor work done at the QANTAS maintenance facility at LAX before she heads off to JFK leading up to her flight home on Friday.
Do you know the expected arrival date/time back in Australia?
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Old 16th October 2019, 04:45 PM
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QF 7879, departs JFK at 21.00 on Friday arrives SYD 07.10am Sunday.
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Old 16th October 2019, 05:03 PM
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Yes, the Boeing 787 production spreadsheet seems to be right on the knocker showing ZNIs delivery date as 15/10/19 - yesterday.
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