{"id":20612,"date":"2013-10-19T02:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/boeing-787-9-dreamliner-maiden-test-flight-2\/"},"modified":"2013-10-19T02:29:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T02:29:00","slug":"boeing-787-9-dreamliner-maiden-test-flight-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/10\/boeing-787-9-dreamliner-maiden-test-flight-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner maiden test flight"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner lifts off for its first flight at Paine Field in Everett, Washington. <\/span> Source:<\/em> AFP<\/span> – See more at: http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/business\/aviation\/new-boeing-787-9-dreamliner-in-maiden-flight\/story-e6frg95x-1226722054864#sthash.RTWvockL.dpuf<\/div>\n

The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner* took to the skies for the first time today, beginning a comprehensive flight-test program leading to certification and delivery in mid-2014. <\/p>\n

With its distinctive new Boeing livery, the newest member of the efficient 787 family<\/a> completed a five-hour, 16-minute flight, taking off from Paine Field in Everett, Washington at 11:02 local time and landing at 16:18 at Seattle\u2019s Boeing Field. <\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s first flight marks a significant milestone for our team, including our partners,\u201d said Boeing Commercial Airplanes president Ray Conner. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are tremendously proud to have our customers fly the 787-9<\/a> and look forward to delivery of the first airplane to Air New Zealand next year.\u201d <\/p>\n

During today\u2019s flight, 787-9 senior project pilot Mike Bryan and 787 chief pilot Randy Neville departed to the north, reaching an altitude of 20,400 feet and an airspeed of 250 knots, customary for a first flight. <\/p>\n

While capts. Bryan and Neville tested the airplane\u2019s systems and structures, onboard equipment transmitted real-time data to a flight-test team on the ground in Seattle. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe accomplished a lot in this flight, and it went really well,\u201d said Bryan. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe 787-9 is a great jet and we wanted to just keep on flying.\u201d <\/p>\n

Powered by two Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines, the first 787-9 will be joined in flight test by two additional airplanes, one of which will feature General Electric GEnx engines. <\/p>\n

Those airplanes are in the final stages of assembly in Boeing\u2019s Everett factory. <\/p>\n

Over the coming months, the fleet will be subjected to a variety of tests and conditions to demonstrate the safety and reliability of the airplane\u2019s design.<\/p>\n

* The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner is a slightly bigger version of the 787-8. Both are super-efficient airplanes with new passenger-pleasing features that bring the economics of large jet transports to the middle of the market, using 20 percent less fuel than any other airplanes of their size.<\/span><\/i> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner lifts off for its first flightat Paine Field in Everett, Washington. Source: AFP A Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner lifts off for its first flight at Paine Field in Everett, Washington. Source: AFP – See more at: http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/business\/aviation\/new-boeing-787-9-dreamliner-in-maiden-flight\/story-e6frg95x-1226722054864#sthash.RTWvockL.dpuf The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner* took to the skies for the first time today, beginning a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}