No, Boeing didn’t fly its 787 today

Published 7:08 pm Wednesday, June 10, 2009

I’ve been in seclusion (sans e-mail/Web access) most of the day trying to get some writing done.

But as soon as I got online, I noticed some chatter about whether Boeing flew the 787 for the first time today.

No, it didn’t.

The confusion seems to be linked to a flight number on FlightAware (BOE787). Easy to see how that would be misleading. For the record, it was a Boeing 777.

By coincidence, I happened to drive by Paine Field at the scheduled departure time … and again an hour and a half later. Would have been a quick flight to get that thing in the air and back to its spot on the flight line.