Boeing 787 drags its tail — Video

Published 11:49 am Tuesday, October 5, 2010

High winds. Wet runways. Tail dragging the ground.

These are all some of the tough test conditions that a new airplane has to go through to be proven safe to fly commercially.

In a video posted on Boeing’s Web site, Mike Carriker, 787 chief test pilot, talks about some of interesting test manuevers he’s put the Dreamliner through:

Boeing 787 video