SECOND BOEING 787 DREAMLINER COMPLETES FIRST FLIGHT

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 23 (Bernama) – The second Boeing 787 Dreamliner, ZA002,completed its first flight on Tuesday.

The all-new airplane, which features the livery of the Dreamliner's launch
customer, ANA (All Nippon Airways) of Japan, took off from Paine Field in
Everett, completed a two-hour flight and landed at Boeing Field in Seattle.

"We are delighted that the second Dreamliner is in the livery of our launch
customer, ANA," vice-president and general manager of the 787 programme, Scott
Fancher, said in a statement here Wednesday.

"We are honoured by the airline’s support and looked forward to delivering
ANA
the first production airplane next year," he said.

Captain Randy Neville was at the controls for the flight, with Chief Pilot
Mike Carriker operating as co-pilot.


Neville and Carriker took the airplane to an altitude of 13,000 feet
(3,962m) and an airspeed of 200 knots or about 230 miles (370km) per hour.

The airplane took off at 9:09am PST (Pacific Standard Time) and landed at
11.10am PST. This is the second of six 787s being used in the airplane's
flight-test programme.

Each of the airplanes will be used for a specific set of tests, with this
airplane focusing on systems performance.

Like its predecessor, ZA001, the airplane is powered by two Rolls-Royce
Trent 1000 engines.

"We would like to convey our sincere congratulations to the Boeing team for
its achievement of this milestone, and we look forward to the delivery into our
fleet next year," president and CEO of ANA, Shinichiro Ito, said.

-- BERNAMA