EVERETT — Sometimes running late pays off.
I was zipping out the door this morning for the last day of the Pacific Northwest Aerospace Alliance conference in Lynnwood and running a few minutes late (as those who know me I am sometimes prone to be) when Lufthansa’s first 747-8 taxied into position on Runway 16R at Paine Field.
RC022 operating at Boeing 22, registered D-ABYA, did a quick rejected takeoff test turned around at the end of 16R and departed to the north a few minutes before 9 AM PT.
The aircraft is expected to be handed over to Lufthansa in March.
The full set of photos of D-ABYA’s first takeoff, which were shot through a barely cracked window of my hotel room, are below the fold.
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