787 first flight schedule
Boeing 787 Dreamliner has left the runway at Paine Field in Everett on Tuesday morning at 10:27
Herded several thousand employees of companies and public audience built in the rain to see the historic flight, jet made of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic flew into the air in the Boeing blue, white and turquoise color in the color - gray skies Pacific Northwest.
The first Dreamliner wheels out through Puget Sound and disappeared from sight in a few minutes. According to the flight plan, it will later head to the inland eastern Washington. The plane was due to land at Boeing Field about five-aa-half hours.
Dreamliner No. 1 started exactly six years after Boeing's board gave the go-ahead to offer for sale to go 15th December 2003.
This year was marked by unusual success in sales by 2007, when the first piece of the aircraft factory in Everett much fanfare. Yet a long string of major delays because it pushed the first flight with 28 months before the original due date.
The last blow came in June when the first flight is disgraceful delay in the final minutes to Boeing may provide a structural error in the wing.
Is true, successful years, is now essential relief for Boeing executives and all business jet program.
Local mechanic union leaders Tom Wroblewski, albeit at loggerheads with the management of Boeing most of this year, as little work in its current members to accept delayed first flight.
"Today's the day to celebrate," said Wroblewski, who is president of District 751 Union. "We have a lot of disappointment and disagreement during the development Dreamliner, but now we can celebrate together."
Despite some cancelations, Airbus still has a firm order for 840 aircraft, more than any other airliner Boeing.
In 2010, Boeing started to build a second final assembly plant in Charleston, SC But for the next three years or more, all Dreamliner is outside Washington state.
Dreamliner No. 1 is joined by five aircraft during the nine months, the court will map the limits of aircraft performance and try to satisfy the requirements for certification of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Where to go for performance during the flight test meets the standards agreed in advance between Boeing and the FAA, the aircraft is certified to carry passengers. Boeing will hope to deliver the first production aircraft to All Nippon Airways of Japan by the end of next year.
Boeing 787 Dreamliner has left the runway at Paine Field in Everett on Tuesday morning at 10:27
Herded several thousand employees of companies and public audience built in the rain to see the historic flight, jet made of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic flew into the air in the Boeing blue, white and turquoise color in the color - gray skies Pacific Northwest.
The first Dreamliner wheels out through Puget Sound and disappeared from sight in a few minutes. According to the flight plan, it will later head to the inland eastern Washington. The plane was due to land at Boeing Field about five-aa-half hours.
Dreamliner No. 1 started exactly six years after Boeing's board gave the go-ahead to offer for sale to go 15th December 2003.
This year was marked by unusual success in sales by 2007, when the first piece of the aircraft factory in Everett much fanfare. Yet a long string of major delays because it pushed the first flight with 28 months before the original due date.
The last blow came in June when the first flight is disgraceful delay in the final minutes to Boeing may provide a structural error in the wing.
Is true, successful years, is now essential relief for Boeing executives and all business jet program.
Local mechanic union leaders Tom Wroblewski, albeit at loggerheads with the management of Boeing most of this year, as little work in its current members to accept delayed first flight.
"Today's the day to celebrate," said Wroblewski, who is president of District 751 Union. "We have a lot of disappointment and disagreement during the development Dreamliner, but now we can celebrate together."
Despite some cancelations, Airbus still has a firm order for 840 aircraft, more than any other airliner Boeing.
In 2010, Boeing started to build a second final assembly plant in Charleston, SC But for the next three years or more, all Dreamliner is outside Washington state.
Dreamliner No. 1 is joined by five aircraft during the nine months, the court will map the limits of aircraft performance and try to satisfy the requirements for certification of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Where to go for performance during the flight test meets the standards agreed in advance between Boeing and the FAA, the aircraft is certified to carry passengers. Boeing will hope to deliver the first production aircraft to All Nippon Airways of Japan by the end of next year.
