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Boeing delivers wings of first 787

Monday 15/05/2017 - Source: Business Week


An enormous cargo plane Boeing Co. built to fly major components of its new 787 jet delivered wings for the first Dreamliner to its widebody factory here Tuesday.

The specially modified 747-400, dubbed the Dreamlifter, landed at Paine Field at 4:10 a.m., nearly 12 hours after it took off from Nagoya, Japan, where Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Co. manufactured the wings.

The crew in charge of unloading the wings had them out of the cavernous cargo hold by sunrise.

A 118-foot-long cargo loader with 32 wheels pulled up to the Dreamlifter after a support vehicle hooked onto the underside of the aircraft's tail, then slowly opened the rear of the plane as if it were a door.

Inside, the two nearly 100-foot-long wings were propped up high near the plane's ceiling, secured by tools that kept them in place during flight.


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