Money / Boeing 787 Dreamliner Boeing's Dreamliner Takes Off Next Week Company prepares long-delayed 787 for maiden flight By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff Posted Dec 10, 2009 10:58 PM CST Copied Boeing employees work on an aft fuselage for the 787 Dreamliner inside the a North Charleston, S.C., facility earlier this year. (AP Photo/Mic Smith) Boeing's Dreamliner will make its maiden flight next week after two years of delays. The high-tech aircraft could be airborne on a test flight of about five hours Tuesday if Seattle's weather permits, reports the Post-Intelligencer. Boeing has much staked on the plane, made of 50% composite material. It's locked in a fierce fight with Airbus to deliver the fuel-saving jet of the future, notes the Wall Street Journal. It has nearly 900 planes on order but can't deliver any until the model passes muster with the FAA. (More Boeing 787 Dreamliner stories.) Report an error