777-200LR Flight Test Journal: Archives
19 July 2005
Birthday party 6 miles up
Kevin Nack
Base Manager
You never know what's going to happen during Flight Test. And it's not all business all the time.
Late in the evening of July 10, on the 777-200LR World Tour leg between Gatwick, England, and Hong Kong, China, we actually held a party.
Walker Dixon and Jennifer Chang had birthday celebrations with a lot of atmosphere this year.
Believe it or not, we were cruising over Siberia, Russia when we celebrated the birthdays of two Boeing engineers!
As you can see in the photo we took to commemorate the event, Walker Dixon and Jennifer Chang had a rather unique observance of their July 10 birthdays this year - at 35,000 feet. It was the crew's pleasure to help them celebrate!