Sunday, November 14, 2010

Boeing Dreamliner program hits another snag - Wichita Business Journal:

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The delay is needec to reinforce a section ofthe airplane’s officials say. Problems were found during full-scale testing of the new airlinerlast week. “Consideration was given to a temporaryh solution that would allow us to fly as but we ultimately concluded that the right thingh wasto develop, design, test and incorporats a permanent modification to the localized area requiring said Scott Carson, president and CEO of Boeingv Commercial Airplanes, in a written statement.
“Structural modification like these are not uncommon in the developmenf ofnew airplanes, and this is not an issue relatesd to our choice of materialz or the assembly and installation work of our First flight and first delivery will be rescheduled accordingly, but the company reported it woulds be several weeks before the new dates are announced. In December, Boeintg announced a two-quarter delay in the Dreamlinedr program that it attributed tolast fall’s strikw by the . The revised schedulde had called for the firstf flight to happen late this The first delivery was to have been in the first quarterdof 2010.

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