A Boeing 787 successfully completed its first two-hour test flight with a redesigned lithium battery system, following the fleet's grounding due to previous battery fires.
The redesigned battery system aims to prevent short circuits by incorporating improved insulation of battery cells and a new containment and venting system.
This test flight is the first step towards the 787's return, with at least one more flight required before it can resume regular passenger service.
A Boeing 787 completed a two-hour flight on Monday in the first test of the troubled airliner’s redesigned lithium battery system.
The Dreamliner departed Everett, Washington, just after noon local time and flew along the Pacific coast into Oregon before returning to land at Paine Field. Afterward Boeing said the flight went “according to plan.”
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