Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner Completes First Flight

Good morning everyone. Welcome to the first flight of the 787-10, the newest member of the Dreamliner family. My name is Bernard Choi. I'm with Boeing alongside with my colleague Giselle Stewart from Boeing South Carolina. Excited to be here with you and be here for my first flight of the 787-10. We're looking out at blue skies and the sky's literally opened up just in the last hour. Beautiful blue skies matching the delivery of the 787-10 Dreamliner. It is all prepped and ready to go and I know that across the Boeing team worldwide there's a lot of excitement this morning. Oh my gosh and you know it's just exciting to see all of the teammates just revel in the great work that we've done to come to the place that we are today. The preparation for this from a pilot's perspective, they've been in the simulator now for many months. They've essentially flown the flight plan for today. We had great execution of the taxi testing over the last few days so everything has just really been flawless. We're an amazing company. We build amazing products and every time one of them goes flying for the first time it's just a sense of pride for the entire company. It's on the move. The 787-10 on its takeoff roll accelerating towards its inaugural flight. Cheer the crowd here at Charleston International Airport as they watch the 787-10 Dreamliner headed out on its inaugural flight. I want to say thanks to the team. I mean it's an incredible accomplishment and it doesn't happen without a lot of teamwork. It's people here in Charleston, Puget Sound, sites across the U.S., around the world, partners, customers. It's a real one-belling accomplishment. I had an opportunity to see this airplane roll out and I didn't think there could be a more special moment than that but to see the 787-10 take off for its first flight is, I mean it gets you right right here. You know this has been a remarkable program, the entire 787 program and when I look at this airplane behind us and the second dash 10 just here on the ramp and a third dash 10 in the factory, I think we nailed it. We had a great flight today. We had a great plan. We had a great team. We had a great jet and we went out flew it. We did exactly what we wanted to do and it performed exactly like we thought it would. I've been on the program a long time since way back days and it is a team effort and now we've come this far with this beautiful flying machine and it was fantastic and as I got to say on the dash 9 a couple years ago, no squawks. Beautiful airplane.