Flying The Big 777-9X "Pilots Said", read on for response.

The snippets from the first flight from the 777 9X suggest success for normal airplane model first flight. The pilot did what they were paid to do praise the newest airplane of the Boeing fleet as the most advance airplane when making progressions forward over its competitors. The first flight is meant to be a debutant moment when the "Queen" starts the ball. It had done so with the 747 with that ball many years ago in the seventies when there was no other to compare with the 747. Then came to the 737,757, NG, 787, MAX  and finally this family of aircraft, the 777X's. 

Boeing did not mess with Max MCAS  and other blocks of ideas coming from the 737 MAX program. It won't duplicate the MCAS used on Max by installing MCAS system computers and systems driven by flying out of flight trim. However, Boeing will fix all miscellaneous function errors and replace accordingly all those systems and parts from other systems found failed during testing of parts. Pure and simple the Max failure was of a single-aisle airplane that should have never been made during the 1970s, Design feature was not addressed with an opportunity of a remake of its design. The Max is just a workaround for fixing the single-aisle low engine wing station shoved forward. MCAS would have to control the 737 with only one sensor protecting the flight. Once computing from the one MCAS sensor failed the plane literally fell out of the air with a fail system reading data in an inappropriate manner. The 777X program has more on track than any other program Boeing has at this time. Live long and prosper.


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• “It was awesome,” 777X chief test pilot Van Chaney told reporters at Seattle’s Boeing Field, where the nearly four-hour flight test ended at 2 p.m. PT".

• Chaney said he would have stayed up longer if he could. “The moment we lifted off and got into the air, I thought, ‘Man, this is amazing.’

•  "Amazing” was also the word that co-pilot Craig Bomben, who serves as Boeing’s vice president of flight operations and chief test pilot, used to describe the landing.

• “We came in under fairly tough conditions,” Bomben said. “Bounced around a little bit, took turbulence [but] the airplane went right through it.”

First and Most Successful Landing From First Flight 777X