If I am Boeing, I am thrilled that this type is airborne once more, for any reason.
It is a beginning to a critical process of re acceptance, as well as re certified....
Prolonged perception of "cannot fly" by the public is having an effect on other than airworthiness.
To deny that is silly. And to frame the test flights as strictly single purpose is a bit narrow, imho. For three years past its due date, the company worked feverishly to get it airborne...
Call it cultural corporate memory...
Last edited by Lyman; 8th Feb 2013 at 13:29.