Boeing has completed the ultimate load wing-bend test on the 787 static test airframe (ZY997) at its plant in Everett, Washington. The airframer says that it applied loads to replicate 150% of the ...

Boeing completed the ultimate-load wing up-bending test on the 787 static test aircraft over the weekend. "During the testing, loads were applied to the airframe to replicate 150% of the most extreme ...

Boeing said yesterday that all test requirements were "successfully met" during the 787's ultimate load wing and fuselage bending test. The manufacturer said the finding comes following "a thorough ...

Boeing plans to flex the 787 static test airframe's wing to ultimate load flex test on 28 March, the company confirms. The wing of the static test airframe - dubbed ZY997 - will be slowly flexed to ...