The latest and largest plane from the venerable Boeing stable, Boeing 747-8, conducted a successful test flight at Paine Field in Everett on Monday.
The giant plane took to the sky exactly a day before the 41st anniversary of the iconic 747’s maiden flight in 1969.
Thousands of enthusiastic Boeing production workers cheered as the massive 250-foot-long [...]
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Test flight of B747-8 planned
Boeing is to start test flights on its latest 747-8 plane, its largest aircraft, Monday, if its taxiing experiments are successful.
If the weather is fine, the maiden flight could take off at 10am from Everett’s Paine Field. After a few days, the test plane will fly to Moses Lake in Eastern Washington where it [...]