1992
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Interiors
The passenger cabin of the new Boeing 777 jetliner received
the Industrial Design Excellence Award. This the first time
the Industrial Designers Society of America honored an
airplane interior.
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1993
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Flight
Deck
The 777 flight deck won the Industrial Design Excellence
Award from the Industrial Designers Society of America.
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1995
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Speed
Records
The 777 established National Aeronautic
Association-certified speed records between Kiruna, Sweden,
and Seattle; Bangkok and Seattle; Paris and Seattle;
Frankfurt and Seattle; and Geneva and Seattle. The 777 wing
design allowed the airplane to climb quickly to initial
cruise altitudes of up to 2,000 feet higher than comparable
transports.
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1995
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Certification
The Boeing 777-200 received type and production
certification from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA) and Europe's Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) on the
same day (April 19, 1995) an unprecedented achievement.
The 777 became the first airplane in aviation history to
earn FAA approval to fly extended-range twin-engine
operations (ETOPS) at service-entry.
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1995
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Pilots
Flight-test pilots Capts. John Cashman and Ken Higgins, the
flight crew that piloted the Boeing 777 twinjet on its
historic June 1994 first flight, were honored with separate
aerospace industry awards for their contributions to
aviation and flight testing. Cashman received the Society of
Experimental Test Pilots' Iven C. Kincheloe Award, while
Higgins received the National Aviation Club's "Cliff
Henderson Award for Achievement."
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1995
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Computing
The 777 received a Smithsonian Computerworld Award
for digital product definition and preassembly in
manufacturing.
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1996
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Industry
Awards
The 777 won the prestigious Robert J. Collier Trophy,
awarded by the National Aeronautic Association. The award
honored the 777 as the top aeronautical achievement of 1995.
Boeing was recognized specifically for "designing,
manufacturing and placing into service the world's most
technologically advanced airline transport."
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1996
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Smithsonian
Achievement Award
The 777 received the 1996 Trophy for Current Achievement
from the National Air & Space Museum Smithsonian
Institution. The annual award recognizes outstanding
achievements in the fields of aerospace science and
technology. The 777 Program was noted for being "a
model of efficiency, utilizing the very latest technology,
as well as developing a wide range of new technologies, to
design, fabricate, flight test and finally to certify the
aircraft for internation use."
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1997
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Distance
and Speed Records
The 777-200ER (extended range), in Malaysia Airlines livery,
established a new Great Circle Distance Without Landing
record. The airplane flew from Boeing Field, Seattle, to
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, covering 12,455.34 statute miles
(20,044.20 km). The same airplane later went on to complete
a record-setting circumnavigation of the world, establishing
a new speed world record for its size and class of airplane.
The Speed Around the World, Eastbound record was set by
traveling the Seattle-Kuala Lumpur-Seattle route at an
average speed of 553 miles per hour (889 km/h).
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1998
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Certification
The 777-300 earned type certification from the FAA and JAA
and received FAA approval for 180-minutes ETOPS -- all on
the same day.
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1999
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Passenger
Preference
A survey of nearly 6,000 passengers flying on long-range
routes to and from Europe in first, business and economy
classes revealed an overwhelming preference for the 777. The
survey, conducted by six airlines based in Europe and the
Middle East, found that the Boeing 777 was preferred by more
than three out of four passengers who had flown aboard both
the 777 and the Airbus A330/340 airplanes.
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