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Originally Posted by LunaZ
Holy crap! What goes inside a Dream Lifter?
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Very large pieces of the 787 Dreamliner, primarily one-piece carbon fiber fuselage sections (fwd, middle, aft), horizontal stabilizers and the main wings, plus whatever else they feel like shipping. That departure was probably to bring the shipping tooling back to the partner sites or to go pick up another major section. The 787 is not really built in Everett, it is assembled from completed sections from the partner sites like Kawasaki, Mitsubishi, Fuji, Spirit Aero or Alenia, amongst other partners. The Dreamlifter can only be used to ship 787 parts due to its limited FAA type cert, hence its name. Damn thing needs more runway to lift off than the Antonov, and it was probably empty except for tooling!