{"id":191763,"date":"2009-06-27T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/27\/more-bumps-in-the-787-road-to-1st-flight\/"},"modified":"2009-06-27T06:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T11:03:00","slug":"more-bumps-in-the-787-road-to-1st-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/27\/more-bumps-in-the-787-road-to-1st-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"More Bumps in the 787 Road to 1st Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=ac_zfin6rnNY\">another delay in the 787 first flight<\/a>, and this one is for a serious technical reason, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;channel=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-06-29&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2009\/06\/29\/AW_06_29_2009_p24-150473.xml\">the revelation that the new airplane\u2019s composite wing induced delamination and deformation on body join points during a routine preflight stress test<\/a>.&#8221; (<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">paid subscription required<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>So as opposed to flying in the coming week, Boeing is now looking at a 3-6 month delay.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/27\/business\/global\/27air.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Qantas is canceling or deferring its 787 orders<\/a>delay, though they are claiming that it&#8217;s the air traffic slowdown, and not the delay, that has led to this decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have another delay in the 787 first flight, and this one is for a serious technical reason, &#8220;the revelation that the new airplane\u2019s composite wing induced delamination and deformation on body join points during a routine preflight stress test.&#8221; (paid subscription required) So as opposed to flying in the coming week, Boeing is now &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1005,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-business","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191763"}],"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=191763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}