<story><title>Dreamliner spells out &quot;787&quot; &amp; Boeing logo over US during test flight</title><url>http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BOE236/history/20120209/2100Z/KBFI/KBFI</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DavidChouinard</author><text>Similar attempts:&lt;p&gt;Gulfstream V: &lt;a href=&quot;http://flightaware.com/live/flight/GLF17/history/20070206/1538Z/KATW/KATW&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://flightaware.com/live/flight/GLF17/history/20070206/15...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cessna Logo: &lt;a href=&quot;http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N750CX/history/20080307/1745Z/KICT/KICT&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N750CX/history/20080307/1...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Boeing 747: &lt;a href=&quot;http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BOE523/history/20110802/1330Z/KPAE/KPAE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BOE523/history/20110802/1...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, a thread from one of the pilots: &lt;a href=&quot;http://flightaware.com/squawks/view/1/7_days/popular/24611/BOE236_787_performing_a_787_with_a_logo#36259&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://flightaware.com/squawks/view/1/7_days/popular/24611/B...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, this required a lot of work on our side to pull this off. Since the route field on flights plans expects short input and this flight&apos;s route is dramatically longer, it caused an FAA system to split the flight arbitrarily into different legs.&lt;p&gt;(Disclaimer: I work for FlightAware)</text></comment>
<story><title>Dreamliner spells out &quot;787&quot; &amp; Boeing logo over US during test flight</title><url>http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BOE236/history/20120209/2100Z/KBFI/KBFI</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>peteforde</author><text>I actually posted this about 16 hours ago (&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3574619&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3574619&lt;/a&gt;) and I point this out because it&apos;s always fascinating to me when the &quot;right&quot; time to post something on different sites is.&lt;p&gt;For example, I believe days start at 8pm PST on Flickr (can anyone correct me if I&apos;m mistaken) and there&apos;s a power-user perspective that will wait to post things so that they can get a leg up on the &quot;interestingness&quot; algorithm.&lt;p&gt;Anyhow, this post makes me smile even the second time around.</text></comment>