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Created by Flightglobal on Aug 27, 2010
Last updated: 08/27/10 at 07:37 AM
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Boeing has confirmed a fresh delay to its 787 programme, citing compounded issues with workmanship problems with the aircraft's Alenia Aeronautica-built horizontal stabilizer and its Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines.
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/08/27/346722/787-first-delivery-delayed-to-mid-q1-2011.html
While the travelling public still awaits the arrival of the Boeing 787, CAE has been busy building 787 simulators for several of the aircraft's launch customers and preparing the devices for certification.
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/08/26/346652/video.html
The failure, which happened on August 2, was not initially confirmed as uncontained by Rolls-Royce or Boeing, with statements that declined to address the specific nature of the incident.
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger/2010/08/regulatory-authorities-confirm.html
Boeing's 787's flight-test programme is nearing its most gruelling phase with a forthcoming visit to remote airfields in the south-west USA to sharpen the edges of its operating envelope.
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/08/06/345850/arduous-phase-of-flight-test-effort-awaits-dreamliner.html
Boeing's 787's flight-test programme is nearing its most gruelling phase with a forthcoming visit to remote airfields in the south-west USA to sharpen the edges of its operating envelope.
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/08/06/345850/arduous-phase-of-flight-test-effort-awaits-dreamliner.html
While the airline remains quiet on where it will deploy its first of 55 787-8s, All Nippon Airways plans to configure the new twin for both long and short-range missions.
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/08/02/345679/ana-to-outfit-787-fleet-in-long-range-and-high-capacity.html
Boeing's 787 prototype ZA003 made a fly-past over engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce's Derby, UK factory following its departure from the show. R-R supplied the aircraft's Trent 1000 turbofan engines.
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/07/27/345220/farnborough-boeing-787-makes-fly-by-over-r-rs-derby.html
The past and future of aerospace's UK standard bearer Rolls-Royce formed up in the skies over Farnborough when Boeing's Trent 1000-powered 787 Dreamliner overflew the airfield with twin Merlin-powered Supermarine Spitfires off its carbonfibre wingtips. The twinjet peeled off the warbirds, climbing into the skies bound for its first stop in Shannon on its way back to Boeing Field in Seattle.
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/07/21/344948/video-farnborough-r-r-powered-787-departs-show-flanked-by-spitfires.html
Jon Ostrower was at Boeing's Everett facility, reporting live on the build up to and during the first flight of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner.
http://www.flightglobal.com/page/787-first-flight/
While Boeing crunches the data from the latest volley of static tests to validate the side-of-body reinforcement, sources within the company are increasingly confident that the long-delayed program could fly not one, but potentially two 787s later this month
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger/2009/12/after-two-long-years-first-fli.html
The Boeing Company's announcement to locate a second 787 line in North Charleston, S.C., signals that other states want what we have - a strong manufacturing base. We
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger/2009/10/speea-emergency-meeting-called.html
This morning, ZA001 conducted its first slow lap around Paine Field. Taxi tests began a little past 10 AM in Everett.
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger/2009/07/first-pictures-787-low-speed-t.html
Boeing is set to announce its intention to acquire the 787 operations currently run by Vought Aircraft Industries in North Charleston, SC in a major shake up of the supply chain for its new flagship product.
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger/2009/07/sources-boeing-to-buy-voughts.html
Boeing's 787 customers are urgently waiting to hear when they can expect to see their first Dreamliners after the programme suffered another major delay. The latest interruption is due to the need for structural reinforcement to the wing/body attachment structure.
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/06/23/328824/boeing-delays-787-first-flight-as-it-prepares-structural.html
Roughly a year ago, Boeing was fighting its way out of a production paralysis in 787 development, marked by parts shortages and design changes, along with a fight to regain control of the supply chain.
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/06/05/327485/paris-air-show-realising-the-787-dream.html
Boeing's official release indicates that today marked, "The first all-electric start of a commercial jetliner engine on a commercial jetliner."
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger/2009/05/live-coverage-787-first-trent2.html
As its first flight nears, Boeing has significantly reshuffled the early recipients of the 787, with launch customer All Nippon Airways now set to take delivery of an overwhelming portion of aircraft once slated for Chinese carriers.
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger/2009/04/exclusive-ana-to-take-most-of.html
In a stunning and candid critique of its chief competitor, Airbus has crafted a comprehensive competitive analysis that touches on nearly every aspect of the troubled 787 programme gleaned from Boeing proprietary data and an embedded network of sources from inside the Dreamliner's global supply chain.
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger/2008/12/exclusive-airbus-dreamliner-do.html
EVERETT -- Jetliner production is set to halt at 12:01 AM in Puget Sound, costing The Boeing Company as much as $100 million per day and further stymieing its struggling 787 Dreamliner program with the walkout of 27,000 machinists.
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger/2008/09/breaking-iamboeing-talks-colla.html
Qatar Airways chief executive believes Boeing could reduce the delays to the 787 programme, and could add a second production line to get deliveries back on track.
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/06/23/328824/boeing-delays-787-first-flight-as-it-prepares-structural.html
EVERETT, Wash., June 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) has completed the Power On sequence for the first 787 Dreamliner, marking the completion of the next major milestone on the path to first flight later this year.
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger/2008/06/boeing-achieves-787-power-on.html
One year ago, Boeing could not have been riding higher. Its stock and yearly orderbook were climbing to a record peak and its flagship product, the 787 Dreamliner, was coming together at an astonishing speed for an all-new aircraft.
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/05/05/223453/one-year-on-the-story-of-the-787.html
Boeing 787 launch customer All Nippon Airways (ANA) has expressed a clear frustration with the manufacturer over the latest delays to the new twinjet programme and is complaining publicly that it has yet to receive a detailed delivery schedule.
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/04/10/222900/launch-customer-ana-upset-over-latest-787-delays.html
According to sources with direct knowledge at both ends of the major sub-assembly supply chain, temporary parts, including fasteners, are causing significant slow downs in the 787 program.
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger/2007/09/temporary-fasteners-causing-ma.html
I'll save extended descriptions for a later post. I just wanted to introduce you to the Dreamliner. I'll leave reactions and comments to you.
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger/2007/07/dreamliner-one-meet-planet-ear.html
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