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Suzanna Darcy-Hennemann is Chief Project Pilot, Boeing 777-200LR Worldliner

Thursday, June 2nd, 2005

777-200LR Flight Test Journal: Desert sunrise : …We’re putting WD001, the first 777-200LR, through a rigorous test program. It will culminate with certification from the FAA so Boeing can start delivering the planes to its customers and they can put the planes into revenue service…I took part in early engineering meetings when designs and specifications were being formed. That gave me the opportunity to take the information from those meetings back to our team of test pilots. In that way we’re able to give the program recommendation from the pilot’s perspective…

Boeing’s 7E7 Project Pushes PLM Boundaries : …The final assembly line included more than 10,000 parts. Boeing reports that using digital 3D models in the design phase helped reduce the number of changes, errors, and rework by more than 50%…

Flight Test Journal: Time flies

via Boeing 777 Blog Rocks (by Jeremy Zawodny)

Howto Open Multiple Home Pages in Firefox

Wednesday, June 1st, 2005

Improving OSS Notes with Greasemonkey

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

Theo Jansen and his beach animals (kottke.org)

Monday, May 23rd, 2005

The Photobloggies

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

Simon Willison: Fixing Paul Graham’s Footnotes

Saturday, March 12th, 2005