{"id":196605,"date":"2008-04-09T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/09\/an-additional-6-month-delay-on-787\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T21:47:00","slug":"an-additional-6-month-delay-on-787","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/09\/an-additional-6-month-delay-on-787\/","title":{"rendered":"An Additional 6 Month Delay on 787"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/04\/09\/222868\/boeing-admits-further-six-month-delays-to-787-dreamliner-programme.html\">well into A380 territory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think that this is more of a failure of management than engineering.  While the extensive use of composites is new for a civil aircraft, as is the &#8220;all electric&#8221; nature of the accessories, the degree to which Boeing has outsourced basic engineering and designs to so-called &#8220;partners&#8221; seems to be a much bigger part of the delay.<\/p>\n<p>First flight is not in Q4 of this year, and if it&#8217;s before December 15, I will be very surprised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is now well into A380 territory. I think that this is more of a failure of management than engineering. While the extensive use of composites is new for a civil aircraft, as is the &#8220;all electric&#8221; nature of the accessories, the degree to which Boeing has outsourced basic engineering and designs to so-called &#8220;partners&#8221; &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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196605"}],"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=196605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}