Fat Guy On a Little Runway: Boeing 787 Dreamliner Lands at Reagan National
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Fat Guy On a Little Runway: Boeing 787 Dreamliner Lands at Reagan National
Boeing’s 787 Dream Tour made its way to an improbable destination on Monday — Washington’s Reagan National Airport — a field that will almost certainly never see scheduled 787 service due to its size constraints. After a very short flight from Dulles International, Flight 787 floated over a few planespotters at the famous Gravelly Point [...]
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Great article! I do have one question. When did DCA's Runway 1/19 get extended from 6,869 feet to 7,169 feet??
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I can't find an exact date, but I think it may have been completed just in the past few weeks.Originally Posted by JetBlueAirwaysFan
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Wikipedia says it is 7.2k and a lot of other resources say 6.9k. I wonder if most pilots find 300 feet as the difference between going in the drink or staying on solid ground
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300' can actually make a pretty good difference...moreso on takeoff than anything else. The official airport diagram calls 1-19 7169' X 150'
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