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: Dreamliner
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 [...]
V Australia reminds Qantas how wrong it was about the 777
August 17, 2009 – 4:32 pm
Virgin Blue has really shown how it can punish Qantas for its absurd resistance to acquiring Boeing 777s.
The announced ‘phase two’ expansion of its V Australia fleet which rises to only four of these jets by December is going to be an enormous headache for Qantas.
And especially considering it holds orders or options for up [...]
Boeing claims it has a 787 schedule
August 15, 2009 – 3:00 pm
Another day, another entry in the log of lies and evasions about the 787.
At 6.16 pm Seattle time on Friday (11.16 am eastern time on Saturday in Australia) Boeing issued the following guidance on an Alenia statement, which in turn it was unable to provide, on the situation with the parts it ordered its [...]
Qantas puts latest 787 screw up under scrutiny
August 14, 2009 – 12:11 pm
There is no official response yet from Qantas over the latest and apparently very serious issue to emerge in Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner program.
As Jon Ostrower reports in the Flightblogger story, production of major parts of the plastic central barrel of the 300 passenger twin aisle ‘wonder’ jet by Italian program partner Alenia ceased on 23 [...]
Hitler’s 787 is delayed again
August 8, 2009 – 5:51 am
After another very bad week for those who still have jobs in the airline business, or shares in the carriers or some of the businesses that depend on them that were bought more than a year ago, a bit more comic relief might be in order .
Note the clear evidence toward the end that the [...]
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