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Karsten Liljegren about 24 hours ago
I was one of the Boeing pilots on this record setting flight. 19 hours and 22 minutes block to block (and 10408 Nautical Miles)… The longest ETOPS endurance test flight ever!
Air Traffic Control was fantastic and very accommodating. – Thank you!
The airplane performed flawlessly. As a matter of fact – we didn’t even top off the fuel tanks.
Karsten
Boeing Test and Evaluation
A few days after it flew from KPAE to KBFI, it took a 19+ hour ETOPS test flight from KBFI to KBFI and adding a new drawing to the list of previous drawings by other aircrafts.
Some links:
- The FlightAware blog post and comment thread
- The FlightAware tracking of the 787 flight
- The flight when it was about half way (so you can see the flight pattern and the flight plan)
- The flight about halfway, but now with an “earth” background
- The flight log
- The Boeing blogs post on the 787
- The Boeing blogs post on the 747 last august
- The FlightAware tracking of the 747 last augusts
- The Reddit coverage is thin
- The FlightAware tracking of a Gullwing doing a similar thing in 2007
- The FlightAware tracking of a Cessna doing a similar thing in 2008
–jeroen:
via: FlightAware > BOE236 787 drawing a Boeing logo on FlightAware.
BOE236 787 drawing a Boeing logo on FlightAware
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