777F IS NOW AIRBORNE!
Photos from the first flight.
And the telemetry problem that forced a return to PAE instead of BFI.

Photos from the first flight.
And the telemetry problem that forced a return to PAE instead of BFI.
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on July 14, 2008 9:22 PM | Reply
Love the blog, Jon. FYI, picture of 777F just after liftoff this AM from Paine Field is at: http://microvoltradio.com/kpae.htm
(Click on the picture to open large version.)
Continue the great work.
on July 14, 2008 10:21 PM | Reply
I thought it was landing at Boeing Field? From the plot it looks like it went back to Paine. . .
on July 14, 2008 10:34 PM | Reply
I heard there is an undisclosed problem with the plane so they returned to Paine.
on July 14, 2008 10:46 PM | Reply
Looks like they had telemetry issues and the FAA requires a landing at the airport of origin:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420ap_wa_boeing_test.html
on July 15, 2008 1:03 AM | Reply
What does that mean? What exactly went wrong?
on July 15, 2008 2:39 AM | Reply
The exciting life of a test pilot: 2 hours of circles over the ocean...
sPh
on July 15, 2008 6:29 AM | Reply
Actually, that's the Olympic Peninsula they're flying over. Lot's of incredibly scenic mountains below with the ocean to the west and inland waters to the north and east. And the weather was great today.
on July 15, 2008 8:27 PM | Reply
But I bet the climbers out on Olympus got a little tired of seeing the same big bird going back and forth while they were having their "wilderness" experience!