BOE236 787 drawing a Boeing logo on FlightAware

Shouldn't you be getting some much needed sleep now Karsten? :)

After you're well rested up, got some questions...

- What was the fuel weight fraction at takeoff?

- KBFI to KBFI: will y'all log that as a local or XC flight in the logbook? :P

cheers,
Dean

You know you are living our dream, right?

That's awesome, Karsten! Thank you for sharing with us.

Awesome... I was afraid you guys were had to make a change last night, but we figured that it was FA not drawing the plan right (should have guessed that when I saw the bend in that southeast track

http://eichman.info/BOE236.png

Very nice. FTW.

Wow how long can this new Boeing fly? 19 hours is in amazing long time without having to refuel.

Outstanding! Thanks for sharing.

Hats off to a wonderful demonstration of you , your crew and to Boeing for a job well done, I tracked you for about 5 hours last night and shared it with a min of 200 of my friends-thanks

Yes. I noticed you gave them a workout at several ATC locations :) Great job.

where's the track log for the FlightAware logo???

Cessna Logo - cool! Thanks.

Learned something new today-thanks

Urg... Clearance Delivery, Boeing 236: Could you say again?
LOL!

So true and a good observation

"Guard" is (was?)an emergency frequency (actually two, one UHF and one VHF) that air traffic facilities monitor. Some aircraft would also monitor it. It is usually used by aircraft in some form of distress not already in communications with ATC to establish communication and get help. As an example: A VFR pilot encountering IMC. Once it is safe to do so the aircraft is switched to a normal frequency. It is also used to monitor ELTs, however I think the new generation of ELTs now use a different system.

Must be Baker City, La Grande, or Pendleton. They missed Joseph!

Non-Stop :)

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"Guard" is (was?) an emergency frequency (actually two, one UHF and one VHF) that air traffic facilities monitor. Some aircraft would also monitor it. It is usually used by aircraft in some form of distress not already in communications with ATC to establish communication and get help. As an example: A VFR pilot encountering IMC. Once it is safe to do so the aircraft is switched to a normal frequency. It is also used to monitor ELTs, however I think the new generation of ELTs now use a different system.

It's a common phenomena in the FAA radar data, the ground speed appears to fall during turns due to the way they measure it.

Those radar tracks are ground speeds not air speeds. And as the aircraft gets lighter (from burning off the fuel), the air speeds for efficient flight profile reduce as well.

"This wasn't a joy ride," explains Randy Tinseth, vice president of marketing for Boeing. "It was an 18-hour Maximum ETOPS (Extended Operations) Duration flight test for a 787-8 with GE engines."

It was an ETOPS endurance test flight (part of the aircraft's certification process).
Very clearly stated in the post IMMEDIATELY below by one of Boeing T&E member.

This flight is part of the cert testing for the GEnx powered version. They need to get the flight hours in anyway, so they may as well make it interesting.

All of our Flight time is for a purpose. We dont do Frivolous flights. But there is nothing to say you cant have a little fun on a long flight.