No, and actually the flying isn't anywhere near as impressive as it looks in the video. In fact other than the rotation and short initial climb, the flying is very, very tame. The airshows have succumbed to nanny-state mentality and bank angles, speeds, and attitudes are now strictly limited.
We used to do extreme takeoffs in the 757 out of Boeing Field in which the chief program pilot (John Armstrong) would rotate the plane to an angle more extreme than that used in the 787 video and then hold that attitude clear on up to 20,000 feet before leveling off. I flew with John in the prototype 757 when he would take it to a 90 degree angle of bank and than snap it back to 90 degrees the other way. These things were just for fun, it was not part of any testing. It was quite a ride.
While the 757 is a rocket compared to the 787, the 787 is fully capable of these same maneuvers. In fact, all our planes can do these maneuvers as well as be barrel-rolled like Tex Johnson did with the Dash-80--- it's a 1G maneuver and the plane and its occupants don't even know they're upside down.This kind of flying is not done these days purely because of "safety" concerns imposed by people who know nothing about flying an airplane.
The air-to-air footage of the Paris Airshow practice flight was shot by WolfeAiir using a gyro mount on a helicopter. One of our cameraman. Jim Lally, shot the ground footage. The video was shot in 4K resolution. The editing was done by Inhance.
Actually, we think the video that was shot last year of the same practice flight for the Farnborough Airshow is far better than this year's in terms of the angles and editing.
