Flight testing activities are nearly complete and first deliveries of the Dreamliner are expected in the third quarter.
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Flight testing of the new Silvercrest engines is expected to start next year.
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The jet involved in Wednesday's incident was delivered in January 2012, having been refurbished by Boeing following hundreds of hours of flight testing.
The facility in Jacksonville will perform pre-equipping, mechanical assembly, structural assembly, systems installation and testing, and flight testing of A-29 aircraft, Embraer said.
The Federal Aviation Administration plans to begin flight testing and writing rules aimed at integrating unmanned aircraft into the national airspace system as soon as 2015.
"Pete" Aldrich certified that the "technical progress of the flight testing" has satisfied safety, reliability, maneuverability, formation flying, shipboard compatibility and other issues that have, in the past, hindered the development and acquisition of this aircraft.
Lockheed and Pratt have both cut costs significantly on their parts of the program with each successive production lot, and have made major progress in retiring risk as flight testing proceeded (the planes have flown over 6, 000 hours).
The team anticipates that "full space flight" testing will begin sometime before year's end.
In May 2007, Toby King, a former Navy nuke technician and flight engineer, joined POWER Testing and Engineering Inc. as a field engineer.
Besides various technical problems, such as getting enough standardised equipment to different airports, persuading grumpy passengers trundling off a long-haul flight to hang around for testing is hard, even when they are rewarded with air miles, as they were in the South African study.
Moving, assembling and testing ordnance, purifying and storing fuel, organizing the flight deck, mission planning, safely navigating the ship, preparing food, training and performing maintenance on important ship and aircraft systems go on around the clock.
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American Airlines is testing a new video streaming product from Gogo, an in-flight internet provider, that allows passengers on US flights to rent movies or TV shows onboard and watch them on their own wi-fi enabled laptops or tablets.
The Air Force is also testing jet engines using biofuels and had the first successful biofuel-powered test flight just last week.
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