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AUTHOR: Gerard Frawley
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Boeing’s 787 takes to the skies
Boeing’s oft-delayed 787 Dreamliner took off on its first flight at approximately 10:27am local time on December 15 (approximately 5:27am December 16 AEDST) from Paine Field, Everett.
Over 10,000 Boeing employees and members of the public watched the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 powered ZA001, accompanied by two Boeing owned T-33 ‘T‑Bird’ chase planes, take off from Paine Field’s Runway 34L under grey skies. The flight landed at Boeing Field in Seattle, from where most of the flight test campaign will be conducted, just over three hours later at 1:33pm local time, with low cloud and poor visibility cutting the flight short from the planned five hour plus mission.
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