Boeing Dreamliner, Boeing 787 Dreamliner
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Boeing Dreamliner, Boeing 787 Dreamliner updates :- THE Boeing 787 Dreamliner is slated to take off today. It is a beautiful airplane. After all the groundhog delays, it will be finally in its element.
This is not the plane that had its rollout in July 2007. That was a fake, a face-saving airplane, a thing not ready to fly. The rivets weren’t even flush with the skin; there was a shortage of the right fasteners and the company used the wrong ones. As soon as the crowd left, workers rolled the plane back into the plant and took it apart.
The test pilots who will run the Dreamliner through aborted takeoffs, tail-strike takeoffs, engine-failure takeoffs and airborne stalls are not doing it to be aviation cowboys, but to shave physical risk down to absolute minimum.
The Dreamliner is also an economic risk, though we don’t think the risk is as big as it looks. Customers are clamoring to get their hands on it. The remaining risk is mostly how smoothly the company can assemble it — a thing it had better not mess up.
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