Final Assembly Begins Of Sixth And Last 787 Flight-test Airframe

摘要

Roeing has started assembling the sixth and last 787 flight-test airframe and now has 25 more Dreamliners in various stages of production. The sixth flight-test aircraft, dubbed "ZA006", is the second and final flight-test airframe powered by the General Electric GEnx-lB engine. The other four are powered by the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000.rnBoeing confirms that production work is continuing on ZA003, ZA004 and ZA005, with ZA001 having entered the paint-shop and power-on initiated for ZA002 in late February.rnBoeing's latest 787 programme schedule calls for completing the first flight in the second quarter of this year and first delivery in the first quarter of 2010.