{"id":190797,"date":"2009-10-24T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/24\/boeing-needs-to-fix-its-fix-on-787\/"},"modified":"2009-10-24T06:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T11:01:00","slug":"boeing-needs-to-fix-its-fix-on-787","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/24\/boeing-needs-to-fix-its-fix-on-787\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Needs to Fix Its Fix on 787"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img109.imageshack.us\/img109\/5103\/3491068600285db030ec.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"350\" \/>Basically, it looks as if it will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/blogs\/flightblogger\/2009\/10\/unanswered-questions-cautious.html\">delayed even further<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>While the installation of the 787 wing fix continues, Boeing engineers have returned to the drawing board to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">redesign part of the reinforcement<\/span>, FlightBlogger has learned.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, company and industry sources say the 2009 first flight target could be in jeopardy as engineers work to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">redesign the fix <\/span>for four remaining wing stringers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>Ben Sandilands makes a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.crikey.com.au\/planetalking\/2009\/10\/17\/boeing-struggles-again-with-the-truth-about-the-787-debacle\/\">number of trenchant observations<\/a>, but I think that he misses the bigger picture, which is, as I stated in my last post, that Boeing has given itself a cost cut driven lobotomy.<\/p>\n<p>They cut the engineers and technicians because the finance guys thought they could, but they couldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like when Boeing got their engineers (SPEEA) to strike a few years back, and they were surprised when the FAA said that they would not allow the suits to certify construction and deliver the aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basically, it looks as if it will be delayed even further: While the installation of the 787 wing fix continues, Boeing engineers have returned to the drawing board to redesign part of the reinforcement, FlightBlogger has learned. As a result, company and industry sources say the 2009 first flight target could be in jeopardy as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1005,1023],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-business","category-labor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}