787 update

BOEING has completed initial airworthiness testing on the 787 Dreamliner.  This milestone will enable further crew members to take part in flights and will allow more aircraft to join the flight test programme.  Since the first flight in mid-December, the programme has conducted 15 flights, achieving several key accomplishments. Pilots have taken the prototype to an altitude of 30,000 feet (9,144m) and a speed of Mach 0.65.  Nearly 60 hours of flying have been completed.  Initial stall tests and other dynamic manoeuvres have been run, as well as an extensive check-out of the plane's systems.  Six different pilots have been behind the controls of the 787.  First delivery is planned for the fourth quarter of this year. www.boeing.com/commercial

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