{"id":28095,"date":"2017-05-01T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/marketplace\/boeing-in-puget-sound\/"},"modified":"2017-05-01T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T08:30:00","slug":"boeing-in-puget-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/marketplace\/boeing-in-puget-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing in Puget Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The newest member of the 737 MAX family &mdash; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boeing.com\/commercial\/737max-9\" rel=\"nofollow\">737 MAX 9<\/a> &mdash; completed its inaugural flight this month, landing at Boeing Field south of Seattle after lifting off 2 hours, 42 minutes earlier from nearby Renton Field into partly cloudy skies.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been on the program since the very beginning,&rdquo; said Tracy Russell, a procurement agent for 737 MAX fuselages, &ldquo;and watching the suppliers and us all come together to get the MAX out flying is just amazing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Tom Duval-Wilkinson, a Lean practitioner who works to streamline the MAX build process, said, &ldquo;It came together well, it is designed well, and the whole team came together and got it flying.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Piloted by Capt. Christine Walsh and Capt. Ed Wilson, the airplane took off at 10:52 a.m. Pacific time from Renton, near the factory where employees assembled the airplane. It landed at Boeing Field at 1:34 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>First flight is the latest step in the airplane&rsquo;s thorough flight-test program, which will be followed by first delivery in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>On first flight, teams performed tests on flight controls, systems and handling qualities. The 737 MAX 9 will now undergo comprehensive flight testing before customer deliveries start in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Veronica Wipp of 737 MAX business operations, who was on hand for the takeoff, said, &ldquo;This airplane is fuel-efficient, beautiful inside and out, and customers are going to love it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puget Sound-made 737 MAX 9 completes successful first flight <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":428,"featured_media":28096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-28095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marketplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28095"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=28095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}