Earlier on Sunday it was reported the Dutch airline KLM had flown through the ash cloud without the test plane being damaged.
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Washington (CNN) -- After three weeks on the ground, Boeing's 787 Dreamliner soon will return to the skies -- but only so engineers can test the plane's troubled electrical and battery systems, the Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday.
Currently, airlines complain that they have to test each model of device individually, on every single plane in the fleet, and with a separate empty flight used for each test, before they're allowed to relax the rules for that model.
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South Korean planes and ships were sent out immediately after the test to collect samples, as was a Japanese plane.
The test jet I flew had no autopilot to keep the plane smooth in turbulence.
The one which stood out in early 2006 was whether the plane would pass the 90-second-evacuation test, which was due to take place in March.
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If she passes the escalator test, check to see if she checks luggage on a short plane ride.
The Air Force Flight Test Center Museum features a full size replica of Yeager's plane (the real one hangs in the Smithsonian) and actual aircraft that made the region famous.
In October 2007, Alwaleed ordered a test flight version of the A380: Serial number 002, essentially a second hand plane, which one source said was about 23, 000 pounds heavier than the current version of the plane.
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The golf-course plane, a single-engine Cessna 172, was flying west at an altitude of 3, 500 feet when the second plane, also a Cessna 172, approached from the east after leaving Santa Monica Airport for a test flight.
Extensive tests on the plane's engine revealed the crack was a result of the "unique operating environment" of the test flight, and was not a widespread issue, he added.
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