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Boeing 787 Dreamliner Makes First Landing in Japan

TOKYO (AP) — Boeing Co.’s long-delayed 787 has completed its maiden trans-Pacific journey and landed in Japan, where it will undergo testing this week with All Nippon Airways in preparation for its first commercial launch.

The Dreamliner arrived at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport early Sunday to applause. Two fire trucks shot out celebratory arches of water as it approached the hangar.

The twin-engine jet is made mostly of carbon fiber and other composite materials, which make it lighter and more fuel-efficient than other mid-sized airliners.

Developmental problems have delayed the new-generation jet’s introduction into passenger service by three years. More than 800 have so far been ordered by more than 50 airlines. Boeing hopes to deliver the first one to ANA in August or September.

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  • Boojer56
    Posted on July 3, 2011 at 9:25pm

    Nice jet. too bad its built by unions so Boing cant make a profit from it

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  • Favored93
    Posted on July 3, 2011 at 7:56pm

    Wow would give my right leg to fly that sucker!

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  • ikesmom
    Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:25pm

    My husband is on that flight!!!!! Go BOEING!!!!!!! And too all the Boeing wives and children whose husbands and fathers/mothers were gone for long periods. WE ARE PROUD OF YOU!!!!!!

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  • Skip63
    Posted on July 3, 2011 at 5:34pm

    Now if the Unions will get off Boeing‘s back and get them to build these 787’s in SC and in WA
    we have more jobs available to US citizens. Otherwise Boeing will be forced to move some of it’s MFG plants to China. Unions suk.

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  • psychokittis
    Posted on July 3, 2011 at 5:03pm

    Go Dreamliner.

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  • UH60L13
    Posted on July 3, 2011 at 4:06pm

    If the NLRB and President Obama’s Administration get their way there won’t be many Dreamliners flying!!! Hope South Carolina and Boeing win this silly Law suit by the NLRB and their Union friends!!

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  • TomFerrari
    Posted on July 3, 2011 at 3:42pm

    One of monicne’s accounts got hacked???

    LOL

    Go Boeing!

    That is one gorgeous aircraft!

    HOPEFULLY, the unions won’t chase its construction outside the U.S.

    It occurs to me, since unions are going international, they do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to keep ANY jobs here! Why should they? By going international, they have eliminated any loyalty to the United States in exchange for more union dues. The union (as an entity, not the members) is a unique identity. It is a CORPORATION in, and of, itself! It has interjected itself between the employee and their employer. It is a THIRD party, to which one other party is loyal (the employees), BUT, it is not loyal to THOSE employees, but only to ‘employees’ in general. WHY would the union care if it creates a job HERE in the U.S.A., or, if it creates a job in another country? If it gets 1% of all payroll, it doesn’t care if it is U.S. payroll or mexican payroll or chinese payroll. A dollar is a dollar to a union. Now that they are international, they’ll let a job go outside the U.S. without hesitation, so long as they get their cut of the $$$!

    WAKE UP, AMERICA!

    The unions have stopped representing US! They represent THEIR OWN INTERESTS!
    Their interests are no longer the same as yours!!
    UNIONS ARE BIG CORPORATIONS!

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  • blackcatrun
    Posted on July 3, 2011 at 3:31pm

    If obama and his unions dont kill the company this is good news.

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  • quicker
    Posted on July 3, 2011 at 3:14pm

    I`ll never fly it as long as there is a TSA.

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  • UpstateNYConservative
    Posted on July 3, 2011 at 3:13pm

    @Snowleopard

    Sadly, just like the poor will forever be among us, there are also going to be liberals. ~sigh~

    I swear, Snow–liberals will mess up their own funerals.

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  • KENTUCKYREDBONE
    Posted on July 3, 2011 at 3:06pm

    I heard on TV the other night that Airplanes are one of the few things we still make in the USA!

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    • oriondma05
      Posted on July 3, 2011 at 3:15pm

      No, no you’re wrong. What this plane needs is more Muslim outreach. Let’s have NASA get right on that.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on July 3, 2011 at 3:02pm

    The Dreamliner; where the french and others have problems with theirs just getting off the ground and making them work, American innovation and determination makes results happen…now if we can just get the Fed’s even more off of our everloving backs, we can beat this recession and debt with no problems.
    http://artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm (new art added)

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    • geekybryan
      Posted on July 4, 2011 at 2:37am

      You think Boeing is cool, you out to check Lockheed Martin out! We’re not much into commercial airliners, we make the most advanced military aircraft in the world! We also happen to be the largest government contractor in the world! Boeing makes a few cool bombers, but without our air superiority – they couldn’t even get off the ground! The F22 is still 20 years ahead of any other nation’s fighters. Heck, our F15 has never been shot down in combat yet and it takes around 20 of those to even begin to take down a single F22.

      Don’t get me wrong – in the commercial game, I’m all for Boeing!

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  • RightPolitically
    Posted on July 3, 2011 at 2:59pm

    In Obama’s America, over regulated and over unionized, what happened to this once promising Gen-X airliner from Boeing will happen in whatever remaining industries we have left. Cost overruns, union actions and strikes, a maze of regulatory insanity, together with genuine engineering challenges have combined to make the Boeing 787 Dreamliner project a great big “white elephant.” It almost sunk Boeing. And if the airplane, once in service, doesn’t perform as advertised, which could still happen, it might just sink them in the end. Oh, what a tangled web we weave…….OF OVER REGULATION and UNIONIZATION!

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  • UpstateNYConservative
    Posted on July 3, 2011 at 2:56pm

    @Living In NYC
    Posted on July 3, 2011 at 2:50pm

    “It is great to be an American…”

    ______________________

    Agreed! Happy Fourth, Citizen!

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  • UpstateNYConservative
    Posted on July 3, 2011 at 2:54pm

    @Omnipotent

    Oh, just gimme a Tomcat and all others can do their thing. Though I really prefer helicopters, the Bell 222 a serious fave here.

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  • Tundra4x4
    Posted on July 3, 2011 at 2:53pm

    Boeing’s union made dreamliner produced on the leftist coast. To Boeing I salute! To the union I give the bird! Open the South Carolina plants! Screw Ocrap!

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  • Omnipotent
    Posted on July 3, 2011 at 2:49pm

    Yes, a very nice airplane. But Airbus makes some great aircraft, also. I like them all. To wave a flag and say it‘s the best because it’s Boeing is simply not true. Both companies build fine aircraft with advantages and disadvantages over the other in their model lines. Competition is good.

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  • nomercy63
    Posted on July 3, 2011 at 2:43pm

    ?????Whatever!!!!!!

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  • quicker
    Posted on July 3, 2011 at 2:41pm

    @ UPSTATE;She has a split personality

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    • UpstateNYConservative
      Posted on July 3, 2011 at 2:49pm

      @quicker
      Posted on July 3, 2011 at 2:41pm

      @ UPSTATE;She has a split personality

      ___________________

      Typical liberal in my book. *L*

      Libs are so easy to tinker with, they should be ashamed of themselves.

      Happy Fourth, Patriot!

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  • Sparky101
    Posted on July 3, 2011 at 2:40pm

    Watching that video was neat. When I was young, living in Yokohama, I developed a great love of airplanes visiting Atsugi. This Dreamliner is beautiful. I hope it is as successful for Boeing as their other amazing planes have been. Lots of technology there.

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  • jmbogstad
    Posted on July 3, 2011 at 2:32pm

    How is this story news? Here is some news
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On8eTIqhqRE

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  • MONICNE
    Posted on July 3, 2011 at 2:29pm

    God Bless the Boeing Company! The finest of American Companies – that pays its taxes makes a continual modest profit, deals fairly with Union and Non-Union employees, and provides health benefits that ARE the same as the US Congress gets. Oh Jiie-San, Boeing!

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  • UpstateNYConservative
    Posted on July 3, 2011 at 2:28pm

    How I always wished I could be a pilot. But my eyesight is bad, so it’ll never happen.

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    • Phantom II
      Posted on July 14, 2011 at 4:39pm

      @UpstateNYConservative Just mosey along to your local airport and fly with an instructor. Join a local chapter of the EAA and bum rides in really nice planes. Best bang for the buck is a glider. Even the worst glider is better than any high wing Cessna. Lots of opportunities in U.S.N.Y. Go to the EAA convention in Oshkosh WI. http://www.airventure.org/ http://www.eaa.org/?sitelink=EAAhomepage
      A Dreamliner will be there. July 23 to 29. Attend a Burt Rutan forum. Go for it.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on July 3, 2011 at 2:27pm

    @Degrambo:

    Thanks for having served in the armed forces. Hats off to all vets, serving, retired, and to the fallen; w/o all of you, our country would never exist or be a mutated nightmare – like Obama now is trying to make it into.

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  • DeGrambo
    Posted on July 3, 2011 at 2:25pm

    Beeeeautiful; the future of flight! Airbust jumbo gas hog, (I know its jet fuel) will be a cheap hotel someday; set them near the runway for those needing to spend a few moments before their “Dreamliner” flight!! “If it ain‘t Boeing I ain’t GOING”!!! Yes I’m ret Boeing; okay and proud of it!!
    USAF too!

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    • Living In NYC
      Posted on July 3, 2011 at 2:50pm

      It is great to be an American , when Boeing the tops in aviation shows the world the next great jetliner!

      Only in free society can such greatness and creativity be achieved…it’s a great day to be an American!

      Go Boeing…you have kept us free with B-17, B-29, B-52 and many more aircraft all signs of a Great Ameican Company!!!!

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    • kralspaces
      Posted on July 3, 2011 at 7:01pm

      Beautiful bird. They did a lot of brake testing in Roswell, NM and that plane just floated around in the shy without making any noise.

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    • Bum thrower
      Posted on July 3, 2011 at 11:44pm

      Union “nightmare”…that’s why they want to move to NC!!! “Hope and change” = no jobs!!!

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