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FAA says new Boeing production problem found in undelivered 787 Dreamliners
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said late on Monday that some undelivered Boeing 787 Dreamliners have a new manufacturing quality issue that the largest U.S. planemaker will fix before the planes will be delivered. The FAA said the issue is "near the nose on certain 787 Dreamliners in the company's inventory of undelivered airplanes. This issue was discovered as part of the ongoing system-wide inspection of Boeing's 787 shimming processes required by the FAA." The… (www.yahoo.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
There have been plenty of previous reports, about troubles with shim thickness at the flanges of 787 barrels.
Shim issues have brought extreme focus on the flanges, basically shutting down 787 deliveries. This Yahoo article states that shim problems have also been observed at some forward, cockpit area flange joints.
That's not a huge surprise. The earliest issues concerned the rearmost barrel flanges of the 787, that have rather high design loads, associated with the rear control surfaces.
Shim issues have brought extreme focus on the flanges, basically shutting down 787 deliveries. This Yahoo article states that shim problems have also been observed at some forward, cockpit area flange joints.
That's not a huge surprise. The earliest issues concerned the rearmost barrel flanges of the 787, that have rather high design loads, associated with the rear control surfaces.
IMHO Boeing has never been the same since Alan Mulally left. He was hired by Boeing immediately out of college in 1969 as an engineer. Worked his way to the top, got passed over for CEO in '05, was insulted, went to Ford and turned it around so well Ford didn't a bailout in '08.
Finance guys took the company over and damaged the brand so badly they may never recover. 5 will get you 10 they go back to Boeing WWII logo.
Just how I see it flying my desk.
Finance guys took the company over and damaged the brand so badly they may never recover. 5 will get you 10 they go back to Boeing WWII logo.
Just how I see it flying my desk.
Absolutely!! I wish he was still at Ford.
Two words: McDonnell Douglas
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2020/01/14/for-boeing-a-new-ceo-and-the-same-unresolved-issues
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2020/01/14/for-boeing-a-new-ceo-and-the-same-unresolved-issues
You could probably shorten that to McDonnell.
They did the same to Douglas
They did the same to Douglas
Actually he could probably shorten that to just nothing because we've all heard it about 10 million times.
You should be thrilled they are taking care of this prior to delivery. That means the checks and balances system is working.