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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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posted on
12/15/2009 10:45:32 AM PST
by
GOP_Lady
To: GOP_Lady
Yeah, to Boeing!
What a beautiful plane.
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posted on
12/15/2009 10:46:08 AM PST
by
GOP_Lady
To: GOP_Lady
If it ain’t Boeing I ain’t going!
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posted on
12/15/2009 10:47:00 AM PST
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: Don Corleone
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posted on
12/15/2009 10:48:35 AM PST
by
GOP_Lady
To: GOP_Lady
Guess I’ll turn CNBC back on and see if they have a video of it ....they have been talking about it all morning.,
To: GOP_Lady
What’s the black balloon thingy hanging from the tail?
To: Pajama Blogger
If I had to hazard a guess; some sort of sensor package?
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posted on
12/15/2009 10:53:43 AM PST
by
AFreeBird
(Going Rogue in 2012)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
12/15/2009 10:54:32 AM PST
by
GOP_Lady
To: GOP_Lady
I am having trouble connecting to their server at the moment. Must be awfully busy.
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posted on
12/15/2009 10:56:01 AM PST
by
GOP_Lady
To: Pajama Blogger
It is a static pressure sensing
trailing cone. During initial flights of almost any new aircraft, this sort of sensor is used to calibrate the pitot based airspeed indicators.
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posted on
12/15/2009 11:09:16 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
To: GOP_Lady
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posted on
12/15/2009 11:13:09 AM PST
by
GOP Poet
(Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
To: GOP_Lady
Yeah, to Boeing! What a beautiful plane.
Congratulations to Boeing. I also find the 787 to be a particularly pretty plane, along with the A330 one of the most beautiful planes around.
Shouldn't this be breaking news or at least front page?
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posted on
12/15/2009 11:22:38 AM PST
by
wolf78
(Inflation is a form of taxation, too. Cranky Libertarian - equal opportunity offender.)
To: wolf78
I should have posted it under BREAKING NEWS.
My apologies.
I love the curved lines of the plane.
It truly does look like a graceful bird.
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posted on
12/15/2009 11:24:39 AM PST
by
GOP_Lady
To: GOP_Lady
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posted on
12/15/2009 11:27:56 AM PST
by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
To: USMCPOP
Wow, did you see those wings curve up on their take-off roll. They got more flex ,the more lift they started generating.
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posted on
12/15/2009 11:35:59 AM PST
by
AFreeBird
(Going Rogue in 2012)
To: USMCPOP
Thank you very much, USMCPOP!
I’ll tune into the news and watch it land within a few hours.
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posted on
12/15/2009 11:37:30 AM PST
by
GOP_Lady
To: USMCPOP
Did it have a military escort?
I thought I saw two fighters.
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posted on
12/15/2009 11:39:34 AM PST
by
GOP_Lady
To: GOP_Lady
Got to the web site and move your cursor to first flight and a up pops “wing break”. Hope that is not an omen
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posted on
12/15/2009 11:44:09 AM PST
by
stubernx98
(cranky, but reasonable)
To: GOP_Lady
“Did it have a military escort?”
Those looked like T-37s to me. They used to be used as side-by-side trainers in the USAF. From the 50s until this decade. Boeing was probably using them as chase planes.
This is a great day in American aviation history. Hopefully we can sell the crap out of these things.
To: GOP_Lady
“Did it have a military escort?”
Those looked like T-37s to me. They used to be used as side-by-side trainers in the USAF. From the 50s until this decade. Boeing was probably using them as chase planes.
This is a great day in American aviation history. Hopefully we can sell the crap out of these things.
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