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At yesterday's Airbus Training Center event, professionalism and transportation safety kept coming up as a topic of conversation and how it remains the centerpiece for maintaining the integrity of global transit. While it wasn't mentioned explicitly, these were the two pictures that kept coming to mind.

HONG KONG -- Safe to say my body clock has no clue which way is up at the moment, but before I retire for the night, I wanted to make sure the photos from today's flight were shared. The video blog will follow tomorrow (most likely) but this set of 144 should give you a still sense of what the day was during today's All Nippon's first 787 flight from Tokyo to Hong Kong.

During a visit to Seattle several weeks ago, I found myself readying for takeoff from runway 34L at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport when I spotted a familiar sight on the horizon. On final approach to Boeing Field was ZA004, returning from a test flight descending south of the city. I grabbed my camera as we began our takeoff roll, watching the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000-powered jet flying lower and lower. As our 757-200 climbed out, we kept pace with the 787 as it flew underneath us right over Interstate 5. Holding down the shutter at six frames per second I figured some of the resulting shots had to be decent. Here's the result.

SEA J70 MLP J36 GTF HLN DLN TWF PARZZ MVA MQO MVA PARZZ Q121 TOUGH DIK RAP J157 BFF HGO TCC VANSS TCC HGO BFF J157 RAP DIK J36 FAR J140 DLH J21 ICT SPS ICT J21 DLH J140 FAR DIK BFF PARZZ TWF DLN HLN GTF J36 MLP J136 GEG GANGS KPAE

The 787 flew a similar 18hr mission on July 26 from Guam to Everett to wrap up its ETOPS testing and I'll much more on that later.