{"id":2893,"date":"2016-05-02T02:44:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T05:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2016-06-29T00:58:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T03:58:18","slug":"boeings-737-max-makes-first-international-testing-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/02\/boeings-737-max-makes-first-international-testing-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing\u2019s 737 MAX makes first international testing trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>La Paz, Bolivia, 2 May 2016 \u2013 On the first international trip for the 737 MAX flight-test fleet, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 has marked a key achievement after completing high altitude flight testing in La Paz, Bolivia.<\/p>\n<p>The airport\u2019s 13,300-foot (4,050-meter) altitude tested the MAX\u2019s capability to take off and land at high altitudes, which can affect overall airplane performance. Powered by a pair of CFM International LEAP-1B new generation turbofans, the prototype single-aisle jetliner did very well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe engines and other systems performed well, as expected, under extreme conditions. That\u2019s exactly what we wanted to see,\u201d said Keith Leverkuhn, vice president and general manager of the 737 MAX program, Boeing Commercial Airplanes.<\/p>\n<p>Flight testing for the 737 MAX is on schedule with three test airplanes having completed more than 100 flights combined. The fourth and final test airplane will make its first flight in the coming weeks. The program remains on track for first delivery in the third quarter of 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Paz, Bolivia, 2 May 2016 \u2013 On the first international trip for the 737 MAX flight-test fleet, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 has marked a key achievement after completing high altitude flight testing in La Paz, Bolivia. The airport\u2019s 13,300-foot (4,050-meter) altitude tested the MAX\u2019s capability to take off and land at high altitudes,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-commercial-aviation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2896,"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions\/2896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}