Posted on 06/06/2023 11:41:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
Boeing on Tuesday warned about a new defect on its 787 Dreamliner planes and that it will delay deliveries of the wide-body aircraft, the manufacturer’s latest production issue.
“We are inspecting 787s in our inventory for a nonconforming condition related to a fitting on the horizontal stabilizer,” Boeing said in a statement. “Airplanes found to have a nonconforming condition will be reworked prior to ticket and delivery.”
Boeing said the issue isn’t related to flight safety and that planes in service can continue operating.
The problem is the latest in a spate of manufacturing issues on Boeing planes that have slowed if not paused deliveries of certain aircraft outright, just as airlines are clamoring for new planes to capitalize on the travel boom.
Boeing had paused deliveries of the planes for several weeks earlier this year because of a separate problem on a fuselage component on certain 787s. The latest issue currently doesn’t affect Boeing’s full-year outlook for Dreamliner deliveries, the company said. Boeing has estimated that it would deliver between 70 and 80 of the planes this year.
Boeing shares slipped on the news and were down about 2% in afternoon trading.
Boeing’s disastrous merger with beancounter McDonnell Douglas was corporate suicide.
LOL...that’s right.
Not giving Trump huge credit here. USwaalast country to ground these death traps
Oops. They’ve been having all sorts of problems with that Nightmare.
Solar powered?
Do you really need a horizontal stabilizer?
You still have the other parts of the plane.
Airbus craft are manufactured 90 miles from here in Mobile Alabama...........
Unions....................
90 miles from here in MOBILE, ALABAMA.......................
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A good pilot can steer with the engines.............
Does the nosegear rotate 90 degrees before being sucked up into the wheel well?
But, the frogs designed it I think.
Sort of like Datsuns. Built here, but still crappy cars.
“Does the nosegear rotate 90 degrees before being sucked up into the wheel well?”
Never bothered to look it up.
I do let out a sigh of relief every time I have to land in one of them.
I think it was just one version of them that has the gear problem.
,,, I did Auckland to Bangkok and back on Thai 787s in mid 2019. They’re a nice aircraft. I recall some years ago there was a problem that grounded them around the world for a short time - Yuasa new tech batteries. On one hand its good to know the problems are being picked up but on the other not so good to know they’re there to start with. Went on to Frankfurt and returned ex Milan in Thai A350-900s. I’d always found Boeings to be a bit more comfortable on long hauls but have to say the A350s have an edge in that regard now.
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