FARNBOROUGH — At 9:09 AM following its first ETOPS flight, Boeing’s third flight test aircraft, ZA003, touched down at Farnborough Airfield. ZA003, with Captains Mike Bryan and Ted Grady at the controls, made a low pass over the airfield in a clean configuration before circling and landing. The aircraft made a stunningly short rollout on the runway, illustrating its brake-by-wire carbon brakes, as well as how light the aircraft was on arrival with only about a dozen crew on board.
Much more to come from ZA003.
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