Let us extrapolate: If the mini-evac goes off s

Let us extrapolate:

If the mini-evac goes off successfully on Thursday night (as per Ceasare from the Hub), then the ditching exercise should occur immediately thereafter, as the ditching exercise requires that they remove at least one of the deployed slides....drag that over to a hangar....and use that in the exercise (which I have also heard is a rather simple exercise).

That would mean that a PR should hit sometime on Friday, and that the maintenance crew should be working on Friday to drop the remaining deployed slides and re-attach the back-up slides that are in storage (awaiting the completion of the mini-evac).

If all goes according to plan, then Proving Flights could begin the following week.....but since the FAA does not fly around on "their own time" (ie: Sunday), we have to assume that the necessary personnel would fly into Willow Run on Monday and be ready for Proving Flights to begin on Tuesday..............

Once again.....providing all goes well and according to a finely tuned schedule.

...........IMHO, based upon Ceasare's revelations...........