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Old December 16th, 2009, 05:29 AM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
DaveS
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Default Boeing 787 First Test Flite at 10 AM PST. Seattle on Edge

On Dec 15, 11:23*am, Frank Reid © 2008 wrote:
Speaking of the 121, did you see how those composite wings flex on the
takeoff?


Someone at work called it an ornithopter.
Frank Reid


I had to look up that word, to re-member it. Yeah. Ornithopter. It
fits.
When I saw the tail on shot of the plane in the air with the two chase
planes I had this horrible instant of flashing on the problem they
were fixing last summer on the wing/body connection. Irrational but
real.

Haven't yet been able to find out how things worked out in the Moses
lake tests.

Dave