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The first production Boeing 787 takes off on it's inaugural ...

Tue Dec 15, 2:31 PM ET

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The first production Boeing 787 takes off on it's inaugural flight at Paine Field in Everett, Wash. on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009. Pilots Michael Carriker and Randall Neville lifted off in the big blue and white jet shortly after 10 a.m. PST from Everett's Paine Field on a four-hour flight over Washington state, beginning the extensive flight test program needed to obtain the plane's Federal Aviation Administration certification.

(AP Photo/John Froschauer)