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Boeing Testing (what?) Out Of DAL?  
User currently offlineBlueFlyer From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 3122 posts, RR: 1
Posted (2 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 2413 times:		 Support Airliners.net - become a First Class Member!

Anyone has any idea what this Boeing flying is for?
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/B...2/history/20100710/1325Z/KDAL/KDAL
Has to be the BBJ version to be up in the air for 11 hours.


I've got $h*t to do
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User currently offlineCPH-R From Denmark, joined May 2001, 5745 posts, RR: 4
Reply 1, posted (2 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 2268 times:

Quoting BlueFlyer (Thread starter):
Anyone has any idea what this Boeing flying is for?

Looking at the speed graph, could it be stall-testing of sorts?

User currently offlinetdscanuck From Canada, joined Jan 2006, 12709 posts, RR: 80
Reply 2, posted (2 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 2062 times:

Quoting BlueFlyer (Thread starter):
Has to be the BBJ version to be up in the air for 11 hours.

Not necessarily...with no payload, the endurance would stretch out quite a bit. Normal payload/range curves don't usually go down as low as "fuel fuel / no pax / no cargo" because it's not a commercially viable configuration.

Quoting CPH-R (Reply 1):
Looking at the speed graph, could it be stall-testing of sorts?

There are no associated altitude drops. Plus, for stalls, you'd want to be in reserved airspace and that flight track is huge...someone more familiar with the area can advise, but I strongly suspect you can't get a reserved block that large that close to DAL.

Tom.

User currently offlineRobK From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2004, 3932 posts, RR: 19
Reply 3, posted (2 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 1647 times:

Quoting BlueFlyer (Thread starter):
Has to be the BBJ version to be up in the air for 11 hours.

It is. It's BBJ P4-NGK for a Russian customer.

User currently offlineBlueFlyer From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 3122 posts, RR: 1
Reply 4, posted (2 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 1504 times:		 Support Airliners.net - become a First Class Member!

Quoting RobK (Reply 3):
t is. It's BBJ P4-NGK for a Russian customer.

So was it some sort of endurance test? Fly 'til you drop?


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User currently offlineRobK From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2004, 3932 posts, RR: 19
Reply 5, posted (2 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 1478 times:

Quoting BlueFlyer (Reply 4):
So was it some sort of endurance test? Fly 'til you drop?

No idea sorry.

User currently onlineokie From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 2364 posts, RR: 3
Reply 6, posted (2 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 1437 times:

Quoting RobK (Reply 3):
It is. It's BBJ P4-NGK for a Russian customer
Quoting BlueFlyer (Reply 4):
So was it some sort of endurance test? Fly 'til you drop?

Sort of ....... Testing the Hot Tub

Okie
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