\[caption id=\\"attachment\_579\\" align=\\"alignnone\\" width=\\"561\\" caption=\\"Photo of the first take-off of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, right after rotation\\"\]![\"Photo](\"http://www.alexhopmann.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/dreamliner-takes-off-crop.jpg\" "\"787")\[/caption\]\\r\\nI had fun this morning heading up to Paine field to watch the first 787 take-off. Nothing actually exciting, but it sure is a beautiful airplane and it will be fun to have been there the first time it ever flew.\\r\\n\\r\\nDriving home the NPR hourly news came on and reported the take-off. Too bad they spent 90% of the blurb talking about how delayed it was rather than the achievement of the day. Would it have been so hard to have mentioned the breakthrough technology, efficiency, passenger comfort rather than just focusing on the delays (which at this point are old news now that the program is back on track)?\\r\\n\\r\\nAnyway its right now tooling around up over the San Juans at 7,800ft and about 160kts and due to land at Boeing field in a few hours. [You can watch it on FlightAware here](\"http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BOE1\").