Following authorization by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration Boeing, LAN Airlines conducted the first test flight of its 787 Dreamliner after implementing the modifications required to the battery system of the aircraft.
Roughly two months after LAN’s Dreamliner inaugural commercial service, one of our correspondents had a chance to fly Boeing’s futuristic airliner proposal as a regular, fare-paying passenger in the Buenos Aires-Santiago route. Check and see how it felt to fly a Boeing 787 before their auxiliary power unit batteries would reheat and release smoke getting the worldwide Dreamliner fleet grounded for more than ninety days…
