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Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Takes Flight

Posted by kdawson on from the million-lines-of-code-on-the-wing dept.

Bordgious and a number of other readers sent word of the 787 Dreamliner's first flight after two years of delays. The four-hour test kicks off nine months of airborne testing. Aviation Week has video of the test flight and a timeline of the 787's development. Here is the flight path. 840 of the planes are on order now, down from a high of 910, as some customers canceled orders due to the delays.

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  1. Re:Yawn. by geekoid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ABetwen times? car to ,ist at least two times that happened?

    Flight is rather an achievement , in between times airplanes aren't flying into buildings.

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