Boeing's new 777X airliner takes off on first flight
AFP
| 2020/01/26 | 587 words
| LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY
Boeing's new long-haul 777X airliner made its first flight on Saturday, a step forward for the company whose broader prospects remain clouded by the 737 MAX crisis.The plane took off from a rain-slicked runway a few minutes after 10:00 am local time (1800 GMT), at Paine Field in Everett, Washington, home to Boeing's manufacturing site in the northwestern United States.Weather conditions had already twice delayed the inaugural takeoff of the plane, which sports blue and white company colors a...(…)
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