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First successful flight for the new Boeing 777X, the world’s largest aircraft

IN PICTURES – The largest twin-engine aircraft ever built is set to succeed the 747 Jumbo.

Boeing employees and others celebrate the return of the Boeing 777X to a hangar after its first test flight.
Boeing employees and others celebrate the return of the Boeing 777X to a hangar after its first test flight. TERRAY SYLVESTER / REUTERS

Washington

Finally good news for Boeing. After several months of delay, its new aircraft, the B 777X, took off from the rain-swept runway of the Boeing airfield in Everett, Washington on Saturday January 25. Four hours later the largest twin-engine aircraft ever assembled landed on the Boeing field in Seattle.

The event gives employees and managers of the aircraft manufacturer the opportunity to celebrate a victory. It comes after months of trauma and after the dismissal of the boss of the company just before Christmas, the consequences of the two tragedies that killed 346 people in two 737 MAX. The celebration is also welcome after the humiliating failure last month of the Starliner, a Boeing spacecraft designed to supply the international orbital station.

“I will still be flying if they let me do it,” said Van Chaney, one of the two pilots on board. JASON REDMOND / AFP

The first flight of the latest blue and white from Boeing marks the start of several months of tests, in all imaginable weather conditions, at airports around the world.

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