AviationGeeks.com - Boeing continues to wrestle with Alenia 787 workmanship issues

While concerns about availability of Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines dog its 787 programme, Boeing continues to wrestle with workmanship issues on the aircraft's Alenia-built horizontal stabiliser.

Boeing Commercial Airplanes chief executive Jim Albaugh says Boeing will have to "do some re-shimming and we'll have to do some analysis" on most of the existing crop of 27 stabilisers already delivered from Italy to final assembly in Everett, though "we're not too worried" about later units, thanks to Boeing personnel at Alenia's Foggia facility.

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