Like any good main stage performance, you have to have a solid warm up act, something to get the crowd in the right mood. Tell a joke, sing a song, do a magic trick, or bring in a jetliner to do touch-and-gos and low passes while its jumbo sibling warms up it engines for its first flight. While I regret opting to get ZA001's opener on film instead of video, thanks to the wonders of youtube, aviation geekery has eyes everywhere.
As it turns out, ZA001's Sea World-esq dolphin show was far from intentional, the lead 787 test aircraft was conducting autolands for FAA certification credit. The timing happened to work out beautifully. The aircraft made one touch-and-go and two low passes at Paine Field before heading back out to the test area. Here are the three videos in the order they were recorded.
Special thanks to Alex Jossi and Bryan Lung for the videos
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