Hot off Google, and a perfect reminder of how ineffective Rupert Murdoch’s pay wall on the Wall Street Journal really is, here is its latest report on the Boeing 787.
At Boeing, Dreamliner Fix Turns Up New Glitch
By PETER SANDERS
Boeing Co. said Thursday it had finished fixing the problem that had forced it to postpone the [...]
Tag Archives: 787
Dreamliner: Boeing says ‘we have an answer for everything’
November 14, 2009 – 7:20 am
Boeing struggles again with the truth about the 787 debacle
October 17, 2009 – 2:08 am
Jon Ostrower at Flightblogger has another scoop on the latest developments in the 787 Dreamliner calamity.
Let’s parse the information carefully, bearing in mind that the company is run by serial liars who can’t even build 747s any more.
While the installation of the 787 wing fix continues, Boeing engineers have returned to the drawing board to [...]
Boeing CEO McNerney says 787 ‘hurts like hell’
September 6, 2009 – 9:43 am
Some more clues as to the state of the 787 project are to be found in a current Flight International story on the evolution or eventual replacement of the Boeing 737 family and its Airbus equivalent, the A320 line up.
On the question, who might decide to offer an all-new rather than re-engined upgrade to the [...]
Boeing removes its 787 project leader
September 1, 2009 – 9:38 am
Boeing has removed Scott Carson from his position as the president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
The company’s chairman, president and CEO, Jim McNerney named Jim Albaugh, 59, to Carson’s leadership role effective 1 September, although Carson officially leaves at the end of the year.
Albaugh was until today the president and CEO of Boeing [...]
Boeing: New 787 promises but critical questions not answered
August 28, 2009 – 6:31 am
Boeing confirmed this morning that the Dreamliner 787 has a new schedule for first flight by the end of the year, this year, with first deliveries to launch customer All Nippon Airways in the third quarter of next year, 2010.
The announcement means that Boeing intends to complete all of the test flights and other certification [...]
787 becomes a moving target, again
August 20, 2009 – 3:46 pm
After several delays the No2 Dreamliner in the 787 flight test fleet has been doing taxying tests at Everett.
On the same day as this perplexing item appeared on Daily Finance, an on-line business news service.
What makes it perplexing is the equivocal response from Boeing as quoted in the story.
Surely it could state that [...]
Inside and outside the 787 operating theatre
August 5, 2009 – 7:39 pm
It looks more like a reassembly line, or an operating theatre, at Paine Field, Everett, where the 787 Dreamliner test fleet is being torn apart pending further remedial surgery even before it gets to fly.
This is the scene at Dreamliner 4, (obviously) where Peter Ricketts, the editor of the Asia-Pacific Aerospace Report [...]
Is the 787 Dreamliner fiasco more about toxic corporate cultures than a flawed design?
July 23, 2009 – 5:16 pm
With every lie and evasion that Boeing utters about its 787 Dreamliner project the story becomes less about an airliner than the wider issue of cultural failures in corporations in the 21st century.
Why can’t contemporary corporations speak truthfully and candidly about their products, or services or innovations?
What makes them think that they own the ‘reality’ [...]
The 787 calamity: Lies and evasions continue
July 23, 2009 – 1:07 am
In a few hours time Boeing is to conduct a conference call on its earnings outlook.
However this story in The Seattle Times is the real story, one of a company that continues to lie and misrepresent the calamity that the 787 Dreamliner project has become.
The original lie that Boeing used to makes fools of customers [...]
Angry Flyers Lounge-Qantas brings down the roof
July 13, 2009 – 11:32 am
A passenger on QF768 on Sunday night from Perth – Melbourne to Melbourne reports:
A bit of a rough landing at Tullamarine. A section of the ceiling housing lights on a 767-336 came off during landing.
While hard landings are often necessary when the pilot judges the conditions require a firm contact with the [...]
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