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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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  2. Re:And the wings might not even fall off in flight by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just because a consensus group of scientists cannot simplify a conclusion into terms that you already understand is not a valid reason for you to reject their conclusion. Attacking their methodology as being politically motivated without some concrete statement or evidence, cherry picked e-mails are not evidence. Of course, attacking their methods with ignorant, irrelevant complaints is not valid. If you want to make informed criticism of the evidence they are using, then why aren't you in graduate school right now studying to become a materials engineer or a climatologist?

    BULLSHIT

    If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t really understand it.

    Richard Feynman

    I'll take Richard Feynman's view over yours any time.

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