Boeing on Track to Launch First 787 Dreamliner Flight by End-2009.

SINGAPORE: US aircraft-maker Boeing said it is on track to launch the first flight of its long-delayed 787 Dreamliner by the end of this year. Randy J Tinseth, vice president, Marketing (Commercial Planes), Boeing, said: "We continue to target the first flight of the airplane by the end of the year. We’re on track to do that. We have a great deal of work that’s yet to be done. Once that first airplane flies, we go into about an eight or nine month flight test programme." Full Story.