| Boeing grounds new aircraft A quote...."US aerospace and defense company Boeing has halted test flights of its new 787 Dreamliner plane after a fire forced an emergency landing in Laredo, Texas." - bold by website editor - posted 11-16-10 Boeing faces further 787 delays after fire Haaaaaaa, haaaaaaaa, haaaaaaaaaa! Couldn't happen to a nicer company. - mpg -- A quote...."NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — A test plane for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner made an emergency landing following a fire in the cabin, raising concern Wednesday about another delay for the troubled aircraft." - posted 11-10-10 Is the 787 Boeing's Albatross? - More on Boeing's "Nightmare Liner" - mpg Special Note - In my year-end forecasts for 2010 I predicted: "Boeing will finish a few
Dreamliners but they will face many delays and problems."
Looks like I am going to be wrong again. There is a now a question if any of these troubled planes will be put into service this year. The latest problem is not with the body of the plane. It is the engine that is supposed to keep this beast in the air. -- Bloomberg reported today that on August 2 the Rolls Royce Trent 1000 engine literally blew up while being tested. "The explosion resulted in
“limited debris” being released into the test facility,” Rolls-Royce
spokesman Josh Rosenstock said."
Uncontained failures are “extremely rare” said Paul Hayess, safety director at U.K. aviation consultants Ascend Worldwide -- Think of this engine blowing up. It is the size of a cement truck. -- RR is attempting to make this development a ‘no big deal’. But three weeks after the explosion the testing facility has not be reopened. So how big was that explosion?" - posted 08-25-10 Boeing Dreamliner Delivery May Slip A quote...."CHICAGO (Reuters) - Boeing Co said on Thursday that issues raised in its 787 Dreamliner flight tests could delay first delivery of the long-awaited carbon-composite aircraft into the first part of 2011...." - posted 07-16-10 Air Berlin may cancel Boeing 787 order It's too funny for words, the aptly named "Dreamliner" (because it WAS a dream, now it's just a hallucinatory fantasy) and its ongoing delays are becoming the stuff of aviation legend. - mpg -- A quote...."Delays in the program are "everything but satisfactory," airline Chief Financial Officer Ulf Huettmeyer said in the story. "It's no fun anymore." -- posted 08-27-09 Boeing Loses Qantas Order for 15 Dreamliners as Travel Wanes A quote...."June 26 (Bloomberg) -- Boeing Co. lost half of a 30-plane order for its 787 Dreamliner from Qantas Airways Ltd., formerly the model’s biggest airline customer, amid slumping demand for international travel." -- posted 06-25-09 Boeing delays 787 again as structure fix looms A quote...."SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Boeing Co. shares fell almost 7% Tuesday after the aerospace giant again postponed the maiden flight of its 787 Dreamliner, a critical program launch that has already been delayed two years." -- posted 06-25-09 Boeing delays first 787 Dreamliner flight Again!! How about we all just call it Boeing's new "virtual plane"?- mpg -- A quote...."Boeing said Tuesday it will delay the first flight of its 787 Dreamliner because of problems with the installation of fasteners on the passenger plane and a just-ended machinists strike." -- posted 11-04-08 -- See also....Come Fly the Un-Friendly Skys -- and the articles shown below.... Customer: Boeing 787 faces more delays A quote...."Steven Udvar-Hazy, chairman of International Lease Finance Corp., a Los Angeles subsidiary of American International Group Inc. (nyse: AIG - news - people ), told investors at a JP Morgan conference Tuesday that he expects the first 787 flight won't occur until the fall, and that the first delivery will be postponed to the end of the third quarter of 2009." -- posted 03-20-08 -- This is funny, Boeing mercilessly derided EADS's Super Jumbo A-380 when it experienced roll-out delays and practically said they'd roll their's out first, they said this well over a year ago.....maybe we should all call Boeing’s new 787 the virtual plane. Really environmentally friendly, totally noiseless, doesn’t need any fuel and it will never crash. - mpg Boeing again puts off 787, cites supply-chain issues A quote...."NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Boeing Co. will delay the maiden flight of its 787 Dreamliner by another three months or so after the aircraft maker underestimated the time needed to obtain and install the plane's various systems." -- posted 01-16-08 -- After all the nasty things they said about the delays with EADS's Airbus A380....tsk, tsk, tsk. - mpg Boeing announces delay in deliveries of 787 Dreamliner A quote...."Boeing said Wednesday that continued challenges in completing the assembly of its first 787 "Dreamliner" jets would force it to delay initial deliveries of the plane by six months, to late 2008." - posted 10-10-07 Boeing 787's first flight delayed until October: report A quote...."The Boeing Co. has delayed the first flight of its 787 Dreamliner to October from late September, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported online late Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. - Boeing had to push back the first flight because of the complexity of installing and integrating various systems on the 787, the Seattle, Washington state-based newspaper said." - posted 08-12-07 -- Gee this all sounds soooooo familiar, what was that company called....EADS or something? - mpg |