Boeing aims to fly two 787 Dreamliners by the year’s end
SEATTLE — The date for the 787 Dreamliner’s first flight has inched closer, and Boeing hopes to fly not one but two 787s by year’s end.
According to a person close to the jet program, Boeing has set a new target date of Friday, Dec. 18, for the initial flight — four days earlier than its previous plan.
And a second Dreamliner is set to take to the air just 10 days after the first one, the person said.
After more than two years of delays, excitement is growing among those working on the new airplane, who now anticipate a pre-Christmas flight and look forward to a New Year test-flight program that could erase the memory of 2009’s embarrassing glitches payday loans for self employed.
The schedule’s acceleration follows the successful retesting of the wing last week, which validated the fix for a structural flaw that caused a test failure last May and the consequent suspension of the planned June first flight.