He has more than 8,000 flight hours. Carriker spoke with Air & Space intern Mary McKillop in August. Air & Space: When you’re test-flying the 787, what sort of things are you hoping to learn?

Over the course of 18 hours on August 2-3, Boeing test pilots took N7874 39,000 feet above the United States to perform ETOPS testing on the new Rolls Royce Trent 1000 TEN, which will power the ...

Triggered by data collected in ongoing test flights and early revenue ... window dimmers to the fly-by-wire flight controls, almost everything on the 787 is electronic, so the slightest ...

According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the left and right inertial reference units on the Boeing 787 jetliner failed ... on a United Airlines flight from Lagos to Washington ...