The second Boeing 747-8I took to the skies on Tuesday for its first test flight. This will be the first 747-8I to be delivered to Lufthansa by the end of this year.
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was America's workhorse bomber throughout World War II. Few flyable copies remain, but two of them, Liberty Belle and Aluminum Overcast, recently visited Seattle. We got to fly both of them.
ANA has added "Forward together as one, Japan" titles to several aircraft in their fleet in support of the nation's tsunami recovery efforts. One of them visited JFK in New York on Monday.