747-8 Gear Swing Nears
Boeing has completed installation of the General Electric GEnx-2B engines on the first 747-8 Freighter and is beginning the first of a series of functional tests on systems starting with nose and main gear swings. The stretched 747 is expected to be rolled into the paint hangar and judged “factory...
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