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Boeing Dreamliner Takes Off
The Wall Street Journal ^
| 12-15-09
| PETER SANDERS
Posted on 12/15/2009 10:45:31 AM PST by GOP_Lady
EVERETT, Wash.—Boeing Co.'s long-delayed 787 Dreamliner made its first flight on Tuesday morning under cold, cloudy skies, marking a milestone for the company's marquee commercial jetliner program that is running more than two years behind schedule.
The first Dreamliner test aircraft rolled down runway 34 Left at Paine Field at 10:28 a.m. and smoothly lifted off, heading northbound. Thousands of people, including hundreds of Boeing employees, plane enthusiasts and media, gathered at the airfield, which is also the site of Boeing's wide-body jet factory, where the Dreamliners are assembled.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aerospace; airplane; boeing; boeing787; dreamliner; flight
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To: GOP_Lady
Three “escorts”: two T-33s, one off each wing and a T-38 out ahead scouting. All equipped with cameras - film at 11:00!
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posted on
12/15/2009 11:51:28 AM PST
by
SW6906
(6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
To: ChinaThreat
They are all owned and flown by Boeing test pilots.
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posted on
12/15/2009 11:52:25 AM PST
by
SW6906
(6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
To: GOP_Lady
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posted on
12/15/2009 11:54:10 AM PST
by
SW6906
(6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
To: GOP_Lady
Landing at KBFI at or about 4:30(EST)
To: GOP_Lady
Boeing 787-800 ZA001 is on the ground. Press conference at about 5 pm EST, 2 pm PST.
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posted on
12/15/2009 1:45:33 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
To: Yo-Yo
That is the Boeing 787-8, not -800.
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posted on
12/15/2009 2:11:22 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
To: Pajama Blogger
It's a static pressure cone to give accurate readings and to help calibrate some of the systems on board while in flight.
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posted on
12/15/2009 3:01:08 PM PST
by
American Constitutionalist
(There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
To: AFreeBird
I read a comment on one of the 787 blogs someone saying in a sarcastic tone “ at least one American company is actually producing something " or something to that effect.
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posted on
12/15/2009 3:06:04 PM PST
by
American Constitutionalist
(There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
To: GOP_Lady
I watched it approach Boeing Field with two chase planes, from my office.....beautiful.
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posted on
12/16/2009 7:01:35 AM PST
by
Psycho_Bunny
(ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
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