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 787 Line Number 86 took off from Paine Field in Everett, Wash., at 11:19 am local time today for a “routine” test flight to address ongoing systems upgrades separate from those related to the airplane’s battery. A Boeing-owned airplane built for LOT Polish Airlines, Line Number 86 traveled west over the Pacific Ocean, then south on a path over coastal Oregon, then <a href="http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BOE272" target="_blank">northeast to Grant County International Airport</a> in Moses Lake, Washington, where it landed at 1:31 p.m. Although flight plans called for the airplane to take off again at 1:55 and land at Paine Field at 2:21 p.m., it left Moses Lake immediately after it landed for its return to Everett at an estimated arrival time of 1:57 p.m. 
 
	In a statement, Boeing said the airplane would fly its battery certification testing mission “in the coming days.”

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