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Mark,
Would you like to e-mail the pix to the Everett Herald? It would be to Andy Rathbun arathbun@heraldnet.com The 'news hook' would be that you caught this wonderful picture at Port Townsend after the deteriorating weather conditions caused the flight to descend to below 5,000 feet, abandon the rest of the flight test and head for Boeing Field.

I'm sure the Herald would give you credit on the picture if they thought they want to run it. If I were the editor, the attraction of your picture that makes it stand out among the myriad of all the other pictures of Boeing 001 in flight is your point about it heading back for an end to a short flight.

Dennis

Here is a picture of the 787 after the test flight yesterday.

I haven't trolled the rest of the media stories but the Everett Herald got the scanner angle into one of their stories.

http://heraldnet.com/article/20091216/NEWS01/712169860

The reporter told me that when she asked about these issues, they refused to comment on them so she wrote ~

"But while short, the three-hour flight was busy. The pilots eliminated risk factors early with tests that determined “everything was functioning.” They tested some of the airplane’s systems while on-board equipment recorded and transmitted data to a flight-test team at Boeing Field.

“There were no surprises,” Neville said. “The airplane did exactly as we were expecting.”

But not everything went off without a hitch. Monroe-resident Dennis Eckert was listening to a scanner monitoring the Boeing radio frequency during the flight and reported that the pilots had to put an anti-icing system into manual mode at one point.

He added that early in the flight, radio conversations revealed Neville had to reset the circuit breakers after a cone didn’t automatically deploy behind the aircraft. Cones are generally used for monitoring airspeed, and can be deployed manually.

From what I saw and heard on TV, the engines on the 787 sound different...

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The engines do sound a little different, but if you were watching takeoff and landing, the 787 was accompanied by T-33's. Their engines were designed over sixty years ago...

Also, the APU and air conditioning systems were running, and those make up a significant fraction of the total noise when sitting on the ramp at idle.

Flash

Well, I can recognize the sound of the GE turbofans in the T-33s, and this was not them. I like to describe the sound of the 787's GEnx engines as "futuristic" sounding"

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They don't use the log periodic below 6 mhz. To high of a match!

Those are Rolls Royce engines on this 787. The GE engines will come out on one of the other flight test A/C later. Matter of fact, I believe they have Rolls Royce engines in at least one of those T-33's.

The 787 engine was the new hybrid Boeing was talking about.

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Well, I am a GE stockholder so I had the GEnx stuck in my head from all the stockholder material I have seen. Forgot that someone else also makes aircraft engines for a minute :P

Either way, I stand by what I heard.

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Sorry I'm late... First became aware of the flight when I was hearing SNOCOM traffic on LERN of all places... then switched on the TV.......

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