Boeing and ANA will be unveiling the special livery on the first Boeing 787 Dreamliner to be delivered, hopefully by the end of September. Boeing has stated the aircraft (ZA101 – Airplane #8) should be rolled out of the paint hangar located at Paine Field at about 3pm PT. You can follow the events live […]
Stories by David Parker Brown
If you haven’t seen the video of the first Boeing 707 (called the Dash 80 at the time) completing a barrel rolled by legend Tex Johnston, you might not fully appreciate this photo to the fullest. From Boeing’s Flickr page: “In August, 1955, Boeing test pilot Tex Johnston performed a now legendary barrel roll of […]
While I was gone recently, a very motivated young man, Vinay Bhaskara, asked if I might want him to write up a guest post about Air India. When I said I would love one, I had no idea he would be so detailed and really re-construct the history of the airline. Things kept popping up […]
Last Friday I showed off Boeing’s 360 view of a Boeing 737 (nicknamed the “gigaplane”) and asked how many photos it took to make this one of a kind view. When the first few “around 20,000” answers started rolling in, I thought people were pretty good. Then I realized that other sites and even Boeing […]
Some media outlets are reporting that the FAA partial shutdown could affect the certification of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the 747-8 Freighter and 747-8 Intercontinental. According to Boeing, as of now, the partial shut down will not affect the certification of the aircraft, but could affect airports looking to be certified to operate the new […]