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A chase plane flies beside a Boeing Co. 787 airplane as the ...

Tue Dec 15, 2:34 PM ET

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A chase plane flies beside a Boeing Co. 787 airplane as the 787 takes off on its first flight Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009, at Paine Field in Everett, Wash. 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/Ted S. Warren)