December 15th, 2012 marks the 3rd year anniversary of Boeing Next Generation Heavy Commercial Airliner the "Dreamliner" taking its first self powered flight into the skies above Washington State.
On December 15, 2009, Boeing conducted the Dreamliner's maiden flight
with the first 787-8, originating from Paine Field Airport in
Everett, Washington, after a 2 hour delay for weather conditions to improve for the VFR experimental flight the 787 made its powered climb at 10:27 am PST, and landed at Boeing Field in
King County, Washington, at 1:35 pm PST. Originally scheduled for four
hours, the test flight was shortened to three hours because of bad
weather. Boeing's schedule called for a 9-month flight test campaign
(later revised to 8.5 months). The company's previous major aircraft,
the 777, took 11 months with nine aircraft, partly to demonstrate
180-min ETOPS, one of its main features.
The 787 flight test program
was composed of 6 aircraft, ZA001 through ZA006, four with Rolls-Royce
Trent 1000 engines and two with GE GEnx-1B64 engines. The second 787,
ZA002 in All Nippon Airways livery, flew to Boeing Field on December 22,
2009, to join the flight test program; the third 787, ZA004 joined the
test fleet with its first flight on February 24, 2010, followed by ZA003
on March 14, 2010. On March 24, 2010, testing for flutter and
ground effects was completed, clearing the aircraft to fly its entire
flight envelope. On March 28, 2010, the 787 completed the ultimate wing
load test, which requires that the wings of a fully assembled aircraft
be loaded to 150% of design limit load and held for 3 seconds. The wings
were flexed approximately 25 ft (7.6 m) upward during the test. Unlike
past aircraft however, the wings were not tested to failure. On April 7,
Boeing announced that analysis of the data showed the test was a
success.
The first 787 was officially delivered to All Nippon Airways
on September 25, 2011. On October 26, 2011, the 787 flew its first
commercial flight from Narita to Hong Kong on All Nippon Airways and on
January 21, 2012 the 787 flew its first commercial long-haul flight from
Haneda to Frankfurt on All Nippon Airways.
Dreamliner 001 N787BA completes ground checklist
High Speed Taxi before Takeoff
N787BA Dreamliner takes to the skies
Dreamliner N787BA in Dirty Configuration head out over Possession Sound
All Nippon Airways takes delivery of the first production Boeing Dreamliner
0 comments:
Post a Comment