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Spain’s Air Europa to go for Boeing’s Dreamliner
It has finally been confirmed that Spain´s Air Europa has ordered 8 new Boeing 787 Dreamliners. The aircraft are scheduled to be handed over to the Spanish airline in 2010 / 2012. By ordering Boeing’s last and most modern aircraft, Air Europa will be one of the first European airlines operating the airplane.
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Dreamliner Delays Mount Thanks to Strike, Technical Glitch
Fliers looking forward to the day when they can take their seat on the Boeing’s superjumbo jet will have to extend their countdown. On Tuesday, Boeing said it must replace thousands of improperly installed fasteners on the first Dreamliner jets before they can be flown, a setback that is likely to cause more delays to ripple through its troubled 787 Dreamliner program, the Journal reports. Boeing says the time it will take to correct the problem — along with delays caused by a recently resol
Boeing Dreamliner launch sees further delays
The lengthy strike by machinists at Boeing and a number of technical production issues have caused further delays to the launch of the long-awaited 787 Dreamliner. Although the labor action ended on Sunday, Boeing has cited the 58-day-long machinists’ strike as the major cause of the delay, along with problems involving the installation of the fasteners that hold the plane together. It is now expected that the launch of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner will be late in 2009. When the new aircraft
Boeing 787 Dreamliner Software Brake Issue Solved
In July, Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner general manager Pat Shanahan said that there were unexpected problems in getting the software in the 787's brake control system verified to meet certification requirements. Last Friday, Boeing announced that "all known software problems are resolved" and the brakes are now being tested. This is good news for Boeing, which just ended a 57-day strike with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) union, mostly over outsourcing of futu
Airlines, Boeing breath sigh of relief as machinists strike ends
You could almost hear a collective sigh of relief over the weekend by Boeing's sales force and a few of their customers like ANA (All Nippon Airways), JAL (Japan Airlines), and Air India, who are all counting on receiving their first shipments of the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner some time next year. As first reported in the Seattle Times, the Boeing strike is over.
American Airlines orders 42 Boeing 787s
With the future and fuel efficiency in mind, American Airlines has announced that it will be replacing aging wide-body aircraft in its fleet by the acquisition of 42 new Boeing 787 Dreamliners, which will be delivered beginning in 2012. American has also contracted for the right to purchase 58 additional 787s, which would be scheduled for delivery from 2015 to 2020, airline executives reported. The carrier’s commitment to having the 787 comprise a significant part of its fleet in the future w
A long wait for new planes
While Emirates recently celebrated the take-off of its first Airbus A380, it’s unlikely that any airline will be doing the same anytime soon for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. More than 27,000 Boeing workers have gone on strike in a dispute with the American aerospace company, demanding, among other things, better wages in a troubled US economy. The strike will cost Boeing $100m for every day that it lasts, says London’s Times. Boeing’s production lines for the 737, 747 and 777 aircrafts have bee
High fuel costs good for aerospace suppliers
Rising fuel costs are boosting sales for western Michigan aerospace manufacturers. Photo courtesy Boeing Co."Now, more than ever, they need those efficient aircraft," says Villareal of GE Aviation in Grand Rapids, which has a contract for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner....
Boeing 787 Dreamliner - Play Foreign Airline Livery “Concentration”
File this under “Sign of the Times”: this weekend, I was watching some U.S. Open tennis and saw a Continental Airlines commercial where onlookers were cooing over the delivery of a newborn. The proud papa, of course, was a pilot and his offspring was a “newborn” jet — he explained he was taking delivery of a number of them this year (the jet appeared to be a 737). It got me to thinking about the long awaited Boeing Dreamliner — a quick google took to me to a site I hadn’t seen before — and
Boeing Awaits Strike Vote of Machinists
Business Tue, 09/02/2008 - 14:42 Union members are set to cast two votes that will determine whether they accept a new contract, or strike at a crucial moment in the development of Boeing’s newest plane, the Dreamliner.
Bend it until it breaks
Alenia Aeronautica, the Italian aircraft manufacturer that is partnered with Boeing on the 787 Dreamliner program, said it successfully completed destructive testing on the airplane's horizontal stabilizer. Earlier structural testing had shown the horizontal stabilizer meets its certification requirement could meet the design target of withstanding stresses upt o 150 percent of those ever expected to occur in flight. Once Alenia engineers then tested the horizontal stabilizer to see just much
Boeing faces possible new delay for 787 due to damaged part
Filed under: Boeing Co (BA)Boeing, which already has delayed its new 787 Dreamliner 14 months, announced Tuesday it will know "soon" whether a supplier's damaged part on the fourth of six test planes will affect the program, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday. The mid-body fuselage section built by Global Aeronautica LLC, a venture with Alenia North America, was damaged "by an Alenia employee not following proper work procedures" in Charleston, S.C., Boeing said, Bloomberg News reported. Boeing s
Picturing Boeing's global Dreamliner effort
Boeing Inc.'s 787 Dreamliner is a globalized product with wings from Japan, a fuselage from Italy, engines from Britain -- it has more parts from more places than any other plane in history, as the folks at Portfolio.com remind us. As we previously noted here, this globally distributed manufacturing...
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