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About Blog In memory of the late Jim Rustik, This new blog sets out to continue his great work in providing information on Boeing Test Flights in the Puget Sound area of Seattle WA.

Today, the company released footage of its first piloted test flights in China — and color us impressed: this thing is no joke.

It is undergoing test flights in New Zealand.

SpaceX and Boeing plan to test fly their capsules without crew in 2016 and 2017, respectively, before crewed test flights in 2017.

SpaceShipTwo, which is modelled on the X-Prize-winning SpaceShipOne, will launch into space for the first time during test flights in 2011.

The company expects to perform three more test flights in New Zealand this year before starting to send satellites and other payloads into orbit 500 kilometres above Earth.

Like many, he points to the CSeries, which is expected to be ready for test flights in June, as far more important to the company's long - term success than a handful of big deals in the business line.

Although both product lines are in the late stages of their development (Bombardier obtained the permit for the Learjet 85's first test flight in February), they both follow the CSeries jet in the company's release queue.

NASA is prepping its first - ever Orion space exploration capsule for a test flight in December.

SpaceX had hoped to make its first test flight in 2013, but several delays and setbacks pushed back its launch.

The Falcon Heavy has been in the works for years and was expected to make its first test flight in 2013.

Zuckerberg inspecting Aquila, a solar - powered, fixed - wing drone, before a test flight in Arizona in July.

An OH - 58D Kiowa Warrior from Task Force Saber, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, fires a 2.75 - inch rocket at a mountainside during a test flight in eastern Afghanistan, March 2, 2012.

And although it was expected to make its first test flight in 2013, a host of delays and setbacks forced SpaceX to push back its launch date.

Here, Makani's airborne wind turbine sits on the runway prior to a test flight in Alameda, California.

Last October, BioJet 1 — a 1968 Czechoslovakian L - 29 fighter jet — reached around 17,000 feet (5,200 meters) on 100 percent biodiesel during a test flight in Reno, Nev..

This mission was the fourth cargo flight to the station by a Dragon spacecraft, counting the first test flight in May 2012.

Some of those payloads, presumably, would launch on NASA's in - development mega-rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), which is slated for its first test flight in 2019 or 2020 and has to date consumed more than $ 18 billion of taxpayer funds.

The commercial space flight company sent its space plane, VSS Unity, for its first untethered test flight in two years, a step towards space tourism

NASA also prepped Orion, the space capsule slated to carry astronauts to Mars, for its first test flight in December.

NASA's next - generation human - rated spacecraft for missions beyond low - Earth orbit, Orion, is scheduled to make its inaugural test flight in September of this year onboard a Delta IV Heavy rocket.

NASA plans to carry out the first uncrewed Orion test flight in 2018, followed by a crewed test - flight in 2021.

The Planetary Society has just announced that LightSail will be launched into orbit on its first test flight in May.

Hybrid - Electric Aircraft Makes Successful Test Flight in Britain Jointly developed by the Cambridge University's engineering department and Boeing, the single - seat ultralight is the first to use a parallel hybrid propulsion system.

German Electric «Jet» VTOL Startup Claims First Flight Two - seat prototype purportedly makes first successful unmanned test flight in Germany, paving way for future «sky taxi.»

The one hour demonstration flight will take place in a Boeing 747 - 300 from an unnamed airport in Japan and will be the first biofuel test flight in Asia.

This was the first powered test of the Unity since the SpaceShipTwo Enterprise broke up during a test flight in late 2014.

All of these incremental milestones are said to be leading up to the Stratolaunch's first test flight in 2019.

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Bombardier (TSX: BBD.B) said the CSeries flight test program is «making solid progress» and initial performance results are «in line» with its expectations.

A third test aircraft should be ready for flight in the coming weeks.

They partnered with a company called Latitude, which builds unmanned aircrafts, to carry out the test flight and demonstrate the promise of drones for the delivery of medical care and supplies to those in rural communities or during emergency situations.

The FAA will issue a rule within two weeks requiring additional testing of engines involved in fatal engine failure aboard a Southwest Airlines flight this week.

RI will be working with Honeywell, which is leading the suit avionics (the electrical and electronic devices that assist flight) and software development, to test its software application at what's called Desert RATS (Research and Technology Studies) in September.

Virgin Galactic is «back on track» after completing its first rocket - powered test flight since a fatal crash in late 2014.

«Test flights of new rockets usually contain mass simulators in the form of concrete or steel blocks.

North Korea's reported progress on miniaturizing nuclear warheads — coupled with two test flights of intercontinental ballistic missiles in July — are raising pressure on Trump.

In April 2003, Rutan went public with his plans and started flight - testing the White Knight, the big, spindly aircraft that would carry SpaceShipOne under its belly to 46,000 feet and loose it.

At least in early test flights, he continued: There is a «real good chance that that vehicle does not make it to orbit.

Facebook's solar - powered drone, which weighs 880 pounds, is now ready for in - flight testing, the company said.

Maj. Stephen Del Bagno was participating in a routine training flight at the Nevada Test and Training Range when the crash occurred at approximately 10:30 a.m. local time, the Thunderbirds said in a release.

Following successful test flights, a prototype is expected to be completed in 2015.

Sierra Nevada Corporation is live in the Mojave Desert with a preliminary test flight of its reusable spaceship, the Dream Chaser.

The company, founded in 2002, has already had six missions in 2018, notably its February demonstration test flight of the Falcon Heavy, a powerful new rocket with three reusable side boosters designed to carry heavier payloads.

The XPS 13's superior battery life (surpassing 16 hours in some tests) will ensure you'll get plenty of work done even on international flights without power plugs.

A man looks at damage to the Airlander 10 hybrid airship after a test flight at Cardington Airfield in Britain, August 24, 2016.

According to company spokespeople showing off the drone at this year's CES in Las Vegas, 100 successful, manned test flights have already happened in the EHang 184.

Anyone visiting Disney World should be prepared to stand in long lines, but Animal Kingdom's new Avatar: Flight of Passage ride will truly put your patience to the test.

Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was coming up, which would serve as the perfect trial by fire — the long flight across the Atlantic would let me test the tablet's entertainment functionality while the conference itself, from which I'd have to file stories, would serve as a good work scenario.

Maybe they had just intercepted it in a simulated VID mission, or they were simply shadowing or filming a test flight.

In this case, SpaceX is planning to send the tourists to space in a Dragon 2 spacecraft currently under development, with its first uncrewed test flight planned for this summer, and its first flight to the International Space Station planned for late this yeaIn this case, SpaceX is planning to send the tourists to space in a Dragon 2 spacecraft currently under development, with its first uncrewed test flight planned for this summer, and its first flight to the International Space Station planned for late this yeain a Dragon 2 spacecraft currently under development, with its first uncrewed test flight planned for this summer, and its first flight to the International Space Station planned for late this year.