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787 - anybody see this?

Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:13 pm
by WIXerGreg
On a 19 hour 9,000 mile test flight their flight plan drew out "787" and the Boeing logo.


http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/dr ... 27660.html

Re: 787 - anybody see this?

Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:24 pm
by The Inspector
What was going on was an ETOPS (Engines Turn, Or Passengers Swim) cert test for the GE engines, and rather than just fly around aimlessly in straight lines this exercise passed the hours with a bit of clever fun and was a pretty good job of programming EFIS, Dave H. don't get any ideas :lol: