Throughout it’s 70 years plus history, Shannon Airport has witnessed many significant milestones and one such event occurred this evening with the arrival of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner. The much hyped aircraft which has taken in the region of $700m to develop was scheduled to be the last performer...
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on Tue, Jul 20 2010
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Today at 0900 local time, the second 787 Dreamliner took to the skies off of runway 34R at Paine Field as "Boeing 002 Heavy Experimental." They were accompanied by a lone CT-33 chase plane, N416X , for an expected hour long test flight that would end at Boeing Field. During the test flight...