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  • Apr 20, 1999

    The Boeing Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche flight test team completed a record level of activity during March 1999. During that time, 20 operations were recorded, an average of nearly one per weekday at...

  • Apr 19, 1999

    The Boeing launch team at Cape Canaveral Air Station, Fla., is preparing to launch the Orion 3 satellite aboard a Boeing Delta III on April 21, from Space Launch Complex 17. The 69-minute launch...

  • Apr 19, 1999

    A new, lightweight composite horizontal stabilizer has successfully completed flight tests on a C-17 aircraft. The new composite tail (the light-colored portion of the tail in this photo, taken...

  • Apr 19, 1999

    The first composite horizontal stabilizer for the U.S. Air Force/Boeing C-17 Globemaster III has successfully completed flight tests at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The new tail, built by...

  • Apr 16, 1999
    Distributed with permission: Naval Air Systems Command PA, NAS Patuxent River, Md.

    A technology used in laptop computers and flat screen television sets will find its way into the cockpit of the MV-22 Osprey later this year, resulting in substantial savings to the program,...

  • Apr 16, 1999

    Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group President Alan Mulally gives the "thumbs up" sign after a successful flight test to demonstrate Year 2000 (Y2K) readiness. Mulally was on board a Next-Generation...

  • Apr 16, 1999
    Distributed with permission: Naval Air Systems Command PA, NAS Patuxent River, Md.

    A new motion- based operational flight trainer for the first cadre of U.S. Marine and Air Force V-22 instructor pilots was delivered by Raytheon three months ahead of schedule to the U.S. Marine...

  • Apr 16, 1999

    Boeing has successfully completed Year 2000 (Y2K) flight demonstrations of its commercial airplanes, reconfirming earlier laboratory and simulation studies that showed there are no safety of...

  • Apr 15, 1999

    The first Boeing MD-10 takes off from Long Beach Municipal Airport on its inaugural flight. "MD-10" is the designation given to modified DC-10s that incorporate the Boeing Advanced Common Flight...

  • Apr 15, 1999

    The first Boeing MD-10 Freighter took off on its inaugural flight from Long Beach Municipal Airport at 12:55 p.m. local time on Saturday, April 10, and landed 4 hours and 25 minutes later at...