Posts Tagged ‘First Flight’
Fifth Boeing 787 Dreamliner Takes Its First Flight
The fifth plane in the fleet, known as ZA005, the first powered by the new GEnx engines, took it’s first flight today from Paine Field. The coolest thing about this event, is that I got to watch it in real time thanks to a real time Qik feed from Airline Reporter. Sure, it was a ...
Hawaiian Airlines Takes Delivery Of Their First Airbus A330-200
First Hawaiian Airlines Airbus A330-200 landing after first flight, originally uploaded by Curufinwe Xiane. Hawaiian Airlines has received their first Airbus A330-200. Until today, Hawaiian Airlines flew an all Boeing fleet. Hawaiian has a total of 10 A330-200s on order, 3 of them will be leased from CIT, including the one that they received today. ...
Special SXSWi edition Sunday Wings: Antonov An-225 Mriya
My goodness, there’s really only one way to describe this plane: This thing is big. Here it is on final approach to Sao Paolo, from Houston, TX. This was this plane’s first flight to Brazil. Photo Credit: Tales De Lass Graciano Despite it’s enormous size, it’s still a pretty plane. Photo Credit: Marcelo F. Di ...
Boeing 787 Dreamliner
This is an awesome photo of the 787 Dreamliner on the tarmac after its maiden flight. I bet lots of people breathed a huge sigh of relief that the plane had a successful first flight. convey_source = “English”;
Airbus A400M First Flight Video
Here’s video from the first flight of the Airbus A400M. It’s a military cargo plane that looks suspiciously like a C-130 Hercules, but that’s a story for another day. Enjoy the video: The first flight took place in November, and I apparently, was asleep at the wheel for it. In any case, here’s some video ...
The Forgotten Wright Sibling
This is a very rare second post of the day. I wanted to post this before I posted that other article about the A380, but it almost seems appropriate to have both these posts on here together on the same day, let me tell you why. Today, December 17 is the anniversary of the Wright ...
B787 First flight videos
Here are a couple of videos from the Boeing 787′s maiden flight. It’ll be a good 2 years or so until we can actually ride one since the FAA still has to do their testing etc. I imagine that there will be some other glitches found along the way, much like there were glitches with ...
