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  • Update on problems joining 787 fuselage sections

    06/12/2007 9:03:58 AM PDT · by skeptoid · 42 replies · 2,090+ views
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | June 12, 2007 | James Wallace
    Boeing told me Monday that workers have finally joined the nose section of the 787 to the forward fuselage, but a spokeswoman admitted the two composite fuselage barrels were not a seamless fit and the solution proved "challenging.'' The Everett factory source who I previously quoted in this blog as saying there were unexpected problems in trying to join fuselage sections told me that loads had to be applied by engineers to finally connect the forward and nose sections. This required that some internal structure installed before the sections arrived in Everett be removed to make the massive one-piece composite...