On Friday, Boeing completed the final certification test required by the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for approval of the company’s lithium-ion battery modifications for the 787 Dreamliner aircraft. The test flight was made using a Boeing-owned production airplane built for LOT Polish Airlines with the company reporting that the test was “straightforward and the flight was uneventful.”
The flight marks the latest phase in the events following the grounding of the 787 fleet earlier this year after battery overheating problems occurred aboard a number of the aircraft. With a crew of eleven aboard, the test flight took place from Paine Field, Everett, Washington and lasted for one hour and 49 minutes with the craft being put through normal and unusual flight conditions. Its purpose was to see how well the new battery and battery compartment modifications stand up in real world conditions.
Boeing says it will gather and analyze the test flight data and send it on to the FAA for final approval in the next few days. If all goes well, the 787 Dreamliners could re-enter service shortly.
Source: Boeing
I wish they would put more into RnD and testing then double checking and not just testing to see if it goes on but if it makes the hardest most gruelling flight 30 times in a row testing.
Probably not a single dollar airliner operators know how complex airliners are and there has not been one yet that did not need a modification within the first few years.
Uh, is that an actual battery there, in photo #2, on the table in front of the group of happy engineers? The open blue box with the spaghetti pile of white-ish wiring on top? My car is wired up nicer than that. Somebody please tell me it's just data acquisition leftovers. Please!
While Elon Musk almost certainly has the ability to fix the problem he is not the only qualified person and there is no reason to believe he is the most qualified and besides he is associated with electric cars.
Are these the same group that designed this in the first place?