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Boeing´s 787 debacle hugely expensive; warning issued a decade ago
Great Seattle Times story over the weekend in which Jim Albaugh, president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, concedes the company's plan to build the 787 by outsourcing much of the core production work was a bad and costly decision.
Boeing´s 2001 RONA warning and implications for replacing 737
Almost exactly a decade ago, Boeing Senior Technical Fellow, Dr. L. John Hart-Smith, presented a paper at the company's third annual Technical Excellence Symposium in St. Louis Missouri. That paper, ten years later is the subject of a Seattle Times Sunday Edition article on the "prescient" warning to the company on the perils of outsourcing.
News Analysis: Boeing maps out ten-year product strategy
Following yesterday's comments from Boeing CEO Jim McNerney, it is becoming increasingly clear that Boeing is inching closer and closer toward the implementation of a decade-long strategy to bring a derivative 777 and clean-sheet 737 replacement to market.
787 heads south for the winter in search of high and low ground
Earlier today, Boeing's fifth 787, ZA005 left Albuquerque, New Mexico enroute to Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. The first GEnx-powered 787 landed around 5pm local time at the airport, which features the longest runway in the Caribbean. ZA005 is currently undertaking a campaign of high altitude tests at varying temperatures also known as Lapse Rate Takeoff (LRTO) testing, which sources say is being undertaken in three phases.
Ninth Boeing 787 Dreamliner ZA102 to Fly Monday the 17th
Jon Ostrower (via Flight Blogger) and Matt Cawby (via KPAE blog) have both confirmed that the 9th Boeing 787 Dreamliner (ZA102 – N1006F), will be taking flight from Paine Field tomorrow. Although Boeing doesn’t confirm the time of lift off, I assume it should be around 10am.
Boeing Archives PART 2: Lots of Amazing Boeing Airplane Models
A while back I had the amazing experience of checking out Boeing’s archive located in Bellevue, WA. My first post in September gave the general overall look at the archives. Unfortunately since then, I got distracted with other things and caused a delay. This post will be going over the models (airplane not people) found in the archives and next week I will be posting my interview with Boeing Historian Michael Lombardi.
Is this Boeing´s re-engined 737?
DUBAI -- Until now, Boeing has allowed artist to interpret the look off a re-engined 737, taking artistic liberties about what a major update to the narrowbody would look like.
Breaking: Boeing halts 787 part deliveries for another three weeks
Boeing is in the midst of a three-week halt in structural deliveries from its 787 suppliers, the fourth such stoppage this year, the company confirms.
Analysis: Shadowboxing no more, CSeries gets a challenger
Make no mistake about it, the Bombardier has been successful on at least one indisputable point. Airbus and Boeing have been forced to respond to the CSeries.
Airbus customer memo defends A380 redundancy
HONG KONG -- In an customer memorandum dated Wednesday, November 17, Airbus's Toulouse-based Flight Safety Department issued an incremental update to its findings on Qantas Flight 32. The brief memo is a clear, if not directly stated, defense of the A380's redundancy following the QF32 investigation into the uncontained failure of the aircraft's number two Trent 900 engine.
Official Word from Boeing: ZA002 787 Dreamliner fire and smoke details
For the last day there are been bits and pieces of information coming from Boeing, inside sources and different media outlets on ZA002′s sudden landing due to reported smoke in the cabin. Boeing has just released an official statement putting some of the rumors to rest and explaining what they know of ZA002′s recent emergency landing in Laredo, TX.
First 747-8I begins to come together as 747-8F nears fresh slip
With the 747-8F schedule increasingly shaky, inside Boeing's Everett factory assembly operations are progressing toward final body join of RC001, the first 747-8I.