All things 787

Dominc Gates' article on June 24th that revealed Boeing is temporarily halting test flights because of workmanship issues with the horiz...

With a 1 hour and 50 minute test flight on June 16th, the 787 test flight fleet surpassed the 1000 flight test hour mark. ZA003 landed at 7:...

Photo Courtesy of Liz Matzelle The first 787 to be powered by GE's GEnx-1B engines finally took o the skies today. In keeping with the 7...

As Boeing is prepares to add the fifth 787 to the test flight program, the current Rolls Royce test fleet is accumulating test flight hours ...

Most the 787 test flights involved flying circuits around Washington State (when they at Boeing Field) or over the Pacific (when at Victorvi...

Flightblogger and Guy Norris reported just yesterday that the FAA has moved one step closer to giving Boeing approval for type commonality f...

UPDATE (9:10 Eastern Time): Guy Norris posted a 787 update on the Things With Wings Blog at Aviation Week. He writes about testing composite...

Not too much to update here but what I lack in quantity I hopefully make up in quality! 787 flight testing slowed down this past weekend (Me...

Boeing Photo ZA003 flew from Eglin Air Force Base to Lackland Air Force Base yeasterday where the aircraft will under go therrmal test part...

ZA004 has been engaged in long duration test flights over the last couple of days with two flights that lasted about 9 hours each. A source...

Boeing Photos Boeing announced the start of extreme weather testing on the 787. It now appears that Boeing will conduct both cold weather a...

Boeing Photo s Jim McNerney, speaking on Boeing’s earnings conference call, says that flight testing of the 787 is on track and that Boeing ...

Boeing Photo of ZA003 at Eglin Air Force Base The FAA has given Boeing the expanded TIA (Type Inspection Authorization) for the 787 last...

The 787 test flight fleet seems to be taking a break from flying...at least a few of the airplanes. ZA 001 - is in a pre -certification layu...

The third Dreamliner, ZA003, is at this moment flying to Eglin Air Force Base to take part in cold soak tests at the USAF's McKinley Cl...

Jon Ostrower aka Flightblogger had a couple of cool (one literally) posts that is 787 related. The first one dealt with the paint scheme for...

So I got a few words on the 787 flight test progress. The first bit of news is that Boeing should get the Type Inspection Authorization (TIA...

Now that the first quarter of 2010 has come to an end, it seems like a good time for a brief review and a look ahead. Thus far the 787 fligh...

Flightblogger has put up an update along with pictures and video of the current 787 progress to date. In it he describes what has been done ...

Boeing Photo Three months into 787 flight testing Boeing is slowly ramping up the number of airplanes to the test flight fleet with the rec...