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Air cargo carrier FedEx has revealed renderings of how one if its first Boeing 777F freighters will look when it departs the US for China on a special mission the morning of 4 February.

Following up on Boeing President and Chief Executive Jim McNerney’s question-and-answer session with analysts Wednesday, FlightBlogger noted that McNerney talked as if a redo of the 777 was a certainty.
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A Boeing 777 made a safe emergency landing at Sea-Tac Airport after suffering an engine problem shortly after takeoff.
Asiana Flight 271 took off just after 3 p.m. bound for Seoul, South Korea. Several witnesses on the ground near the airport say as the plane was ascending, they heard several loud explosions and flames shooting out [...]

Boeing has delivered the first 777 freighter to launch customer Air France Cargo.

A second engine power loss on a Boeing 777 following one that caused a crash in London has resulted in a stronger recommendation from the manufacturer to avoid icing in fuel lines in extremely cold conditions.
The fuel temperature in more than 200 777s with Rolls-Royce Trent 800-series engines should not be allowed to remain at [...]

US National Transportation Safety Board said it is investigating an incident last month in which a Delta Air Lines 777-200ER experienced an “uncommanded engine rollback in the cruise phase of an intercontinental flight.” DL Flight 18 was over Montana en route from Shanghai to Atlanta on Nov. 26 at about 12:30 p.m. MST when the [...]

It also demanded that Boeing put in place new safety measures to ensure that planes travelling at high altitude in temperatures far below freezing do not suffer a potentially disastrous build up of ice in their fuel systems. The recommendations were made in a report into the crash in January in which a BA 777 flying from Beijing crash landed short of the runway with 136 passengers and 16 crew on board.

Engine power loss appears to have been the cause of an accident at the UK’s London Heathrow airport, in which a British Airways Boeing 777 landed just inside the airfield boundary some 500m (1,640ft) short of the runway 27L threshold. The 136 passengers were evacuated via all eight slides, with three people suffering minor injuries, according to a statement by the airline’s chief executive Willie Walsh.

The Boeing Company recorded 1,413 net commercial airplane orders during 2007, reaching more than 1,000 orders for an unprecedented third consecutive year, and setting a Boeing record for total orders in a single year.
Boeing also set new order records for the 787 Dreamliner, the 737, and for Boeing freighters.

The Boeing Company today delivered its 3,000th widebody airplane from its Everett, Wash., site. The airplane was a 777-200ER (Extended Range) model that was delivered to Korean Air.
The 3,000 airplanes built and delivered from the Boeing Everett factory include 747, 767 and 777 models. The site is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.
“We are honored [...]