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Monday, October 15, 2012

Boeing Uses American 737-800 for Combined Test Program

This link is worth taking a bit of time to examine.  It seems that Boeing is not only testing multiple technologies simultaneously on a single production airplane, but they are using an airplane that has already been delivered to a customer.  Some interesting ways to keep costs down and accelerate testing.

http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/AW_10_08_2012_p40-499957.xml&p=1

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