Aspiring Sky Writer Plans Boeing Test Flights

[In The News]

Maximum endurance test flights on highly-polished commercial aircraft can be boring—taking the phrase “drilling holes in the sky” to the new flight levels—but Boeing’s flight test team has been making an effort to add some levity to the ordeal. The new Boeing 787-800 needed an eighteen-hour test flight as part of its ETOPS certification, so the flight planners turned the long-range, twin-jet into the world’s most expensive Etch-A-Sketch.

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