Gregory Polek has spent his entire career in aviation journalism with AIN, starting as a proofreader and assistant to then-managing editor Mary Mahoney in 1995 after serving an internship with&nbsp;New Jersey Monthly&nbsp;magazine and completing his B.A. degree in English/Writing at New Jersey’s William Paterson College. By 1997 Polek accepted a position as an associate editor, covering the regional airline beat for&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;in place of retiring industry veteran Don Anderson. The assignment took Polek across North America and Europe to profile regional airlines varying in size and mission from the likes of floatplane operators Kenmore Air and Chalk’s Ocean Airways to regional jet operators such as SkyWest and American Eagle. Today, in his dual role as Air Transport Editor and International Airshow Editor, Polek writes, edits, and manages AIN’s commercial aviation content while overseeing each of the company’s daily international air show publications in Paris, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai. Most recently Polek has assumed oversight of daily coverage of the Helicopter Association International’s annual Heli-Expo convention.

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Boeing has begun the so-called power-on process for the 787 in Everett, Wash., the company confirmed today. The milestone marks the start of a procedure under which engineers power different sections of the airplane over a series of days, expected to culminate in full power-on by the end of this month. “We have started the process for power on and are pleased about that,” said a Boeing spokesperson. “[It] gives us real confidence we will achieve it by the end of the month.”
Scheduled now to fly for the first time by November, the first Boeing 787 leads a group of six prototypes scheduled to participate in flight testing. Final assembly on the third flight-test airplane began in early May, days after prototype number one moved from the final assembly facility to the structural test rig. In all, Boeing plans to engage eight airframes in the certification program, including a static-test airframe (aircraft No. 2) and a fatigue-test airframe (aircraft No. 4) now undergoing systems installation. 
Delivery schedules now call for the first production airplane to go to Japan’s All Nippon Airways, some 15 months later than originally planned.

Boeing Starts 787 Power-on Process

Boeing has begun the so-called power-on process for the 787 in Everett, Wash., the company confirmed today.

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