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'Today My Dream Came True,' Says First Airline Pilot of Boeing 787 Dreamliner

May 14, 2010 at 10:50 AM | by | Comments (0)

This is why it pays to be an early adopter: All Nippon Airways, the first customer of Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner, was also the first to get commercial pilots onboard the airplane for test flights over Washington State yesterday.

Along with Boeing's chief 787 test pilot, Captain Mike Carriker, ANA Captains Masayuki Ishii and Masami Tsukamoto took one of the 787s out for multiple take-offs and landings, a necessary fun little day since ANA will be the first to fly the 787 when it possibly takes delivery of the 787 toward the end of this year. This year! The pilots better be practicing!

Luckily for other airlines with 787s on order (like Continental, who's scheduled to be the first US airline with a Dreamliner), their pilots won't need much extra schooling for the new planes. Since many features are similar to 777s, pilots with 777 ratings who have been doing their homework will only need five days of training for the 787.

So what did the ANA pilots think of the plane? Well, Tsukamoto says it best: "today my dream came true." No word on whether or not ANA will install their women-only lavatories on the 787.

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[Photo: Boeing]

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