Snapping at Boeing's heels is its arch rival Airbus, which is expected to start test flying its A350 XWB later this year.
"It's a very gratifying feeling for someone who's devoted their career to test flying like myself and all the other astronauts, " said former Air Force Maj.
He passed this test with flying colours (and managed to look confident and jaunty even when saying not very much).
The U.S. Air Force is currently test-flying an optionally piloted supersonic drone over the Gulf of Mexico based on a modified F-16 fighter jet.
They aren't all pristine, to be sure, but most of them pass my personal retina test with flying colors, even if they were shot in black and white.
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Given what we have experienced and what we know now, I think me might well accept the debt and derivative ratings as having met this test with flying colors.
Boeing is still waiting for approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on potential fixes to begin test-flying the 787, but it continues to receive orders for the Dreamliner, with Air Berlin announcing an order for 15 units on Tuesday.
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"Because the honey bee brain is smaller and more accessible than any vertebrate brain, we hope to eventually be able to produce an accurate and complete model that we can test within a flying robot, " said Dr Marshall.
That is much like flying experimental planes over crowded cities to test their airworthiness.
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It was a test his players passed with flying colours as they extended their winning run in all competitions to 10 matches and more than two months.
The chip, which has been in development for over a decade, just completed its first human test, which it passed with flying colors.
Petersen met with the Glamorgan squad for the first time this week, flying in after the culmination of the drawn Test series between South Africa and India, in which he averaged 34 runs.
In 2010, fire caused a 787 test flight to lose primary electrical power while flying from Yuma, Arizona, to Laredo, Texas.
From there, the round became a test of patience, one he passed with flying colors, parring the first 12 holes before getting the birdies on three of the final 6.
The FAA's depiction of an altimeter in its test booklet looks like no altimeter seen in any flying machine.
Unlike SpaceX launches, which to date have been mainly test flights, the Atlas vehicles typically debuted by flying full-up missions for paying customers.
Any test you gave them, they could pass with flying colors.
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South Africa, currently third in the International Cricket Council's world Test rankings, start the first Test against Bangladesh at Bloemfontein, play the second a week later before flying to Australia for three Tests.
However, its baseline version of the interceptor is already quite capable, which is why the Navy will conduct a test this spring to see how it fares against a Trident ballistic missile flying a longer, faster trajectory than the service currently is postured to counter.
Jayawardene, by contrast, made a flying start and reached his half-century at almost a run a ball, before registering his 13th Test hundred from 157 deliveries.
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