and powerful new engine developed for the 777. Over the years, RA001 made about 12,000 test flights, the last of which came in 1993. When it landed for the final time, at Boeing Field, that’s where it stayed, eventually becoming part of the outside airplane collection on public display at the Museum of Flight. Being outside and in the wet Seattle weather for so many years took its toll on the once-gleaming silver and white airplane with the bright red stripe down the side of the fuselage and up the massive tail. Even those first flightcrew names had faded long ago. Today, RA001 looks as it did when it left the Everett paint shop 46 years 26 Frontiers October 2014
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