Dreamliner Set to fly 15/12

[docjames]

Webcast from 0940 Local Time (which i think works out to be about 340am brisvegas time / 440 southern)

Boeing 787 Dreamliner First Flight


Will be great to see it fly.

Also, nice article on the test flight protocols etc from the seattle times:

Business & Technology | Boeing to duplicate Puget Sound work for 787 | Seattle Times Newspaper


Edit: oops, this one is better:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/boeingaerospace/2010494844_787flighttest13.htmlhttp://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2010449191_boeing08.html

 

[MrGreg]

Great link - Thanks

 

[ejb]

787.......she flies!

Two years late, Boeing Dreamliner makes maiden flight

Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner jet has taken to the skies for the first time, in a critical milestone for the problem-plagued aircraft seen as key to the future of the US aerospace giant.

Rough video but does show takeoff.

ejb

 

[munitalP]

Re: 787.......she flies!

Live on C7 Sunrise


Mr!

 

[trooper]

Watched the approach and landing live.. while waiting for a docors appointment!

FINE looking aircraft.........:mrgreen:

Looking forward to seeing the first one to arrive in NZ livery.....

 

[docjames]

Awesome, was just awesome, there's a couple of nice clips on youtube - the arc'd wings look great from front on and behind.

Takeoff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fucq5BoEfEI


Landing (and taxi afterwards)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQQBTAzA07c

 

[Flying Fox]

The wing flex is amazing!

 

[Nigelinoz]

Sure is a fine looking aircraft,let's hope that they are able to get it into regular airline service soon.

 

[Slats7]

I love it.

 

[straitman]

Here are a couple of very useful links for the 787 first flight. These are courtesy of Aviation week and there is a link to a first flight video.

Boeing 787 First Flight Special Report

787 Milestones

 

[Flashback]

Boeing Dreamliner touches down after first flight | Reuters

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Boeing Co completed the first test flight of its new lightweight carbon and titanium Dreamliner, but the flight was cut short because of bad weather.
http://www.reuters.com/news/us

The flight was more than two years behind schedule because of manufacturing and design problems.


The 787 Dreamliner's highly anticipated takeoff and landing were witnessed by several thousand Boeing employees, industry VIPs, airplane enthusiasts and reporters. But excitement and relief spread throughout the aerospace industry.
The plane, which Boeing has said will save airlines million of dollars in fuel and maintenance costs, has been hampered by a shortage of bolts, faulty design and a two-month strike at its factory.


Airlines like the concept of the mid-sized plane that can carry about 250 people very long distances. They have ordered 840 of the aircraft, worth about $140 billion, since work began on the plane in 2004.


But production has been delayed five times in the past three years, and the first flight has been postponed six times.


Rival Airbus, a unit of Europe's EADS, has been attracting buyers for its competing A350 plane, which will also be made primarily from carbon-composite materials.


Exactly how much profit Boeing can expect to make from the plane is uncertain. Analysts have said the company has invested more than $10 billion in the project, and will have to give some sort of compensation to customers for late planes. How late the planes will be and how they will perform will not be known until flight tests have been completed.


"It's a major step-off point to the ultimate goal which is certification and customer delivery. It's an important milestone but it's not the end goal," Clay Jones, chief executive of Rockwell Collins said at the Reuters Aerospace & Defense Summit in Washington.


Rockwell makes display systems, communications and surveillance systems and pilot controls systems for the 787.

 

[codash1099]

Progressing well so far.

Boeing completes 787 initial airworthiness milestone

 

[Flying Fox]

According to The Australian, we might get to see the 787 during certification & testing...

Dreamliner may come to Australia for testing | The Australian

Alice Springs is a possibility!