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Rolls-Royce Says Boeing 787 Groundings Will Get Worse
The spike will occur ahead of a deadline next month for mandated inspections forced by durability problems, Rolls said in an emailed statement. The number of parked Dreamliners is expected to peak at about 50 from the current level of 35, a person familiar with the matter said, as the aircraft await repairs. (www.bloomberg.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Same with battery technologies. Generally its way better to introduce and do real life application testing with ONE new technology at the time.
If the faulty engines are still on guarantee/warranty RR should be facing BILLIONS of dollars in claims and hundreds of lawyers in waiting. They never learned the lesson that rushing a new product out to the marketplace, any kind, before testing the hell out of is going to snap right back at you and bite you to pieces. GM, Ford, Toyota, Chrysler etc. are still recalling cars by the millions. Seems like the marketing guys trampled over the bodies of of engineering and beancounters causing billions of dollars in unrecoverable costs to their company.
Is this not the same engine that suffered a catastrophic, uncontained compressor disc failure on the test stand at the RR factory ?! Actually damaged the test facility and put it out of commission if I recall....This was a few years back during the 787 development. I'm an avionics guy, not powerplants- seems to me though that if you cannot even get through test of what is believed to be a production worthy design w/o catastrophic failures- you have a significant design issue and one that has obviously not yet been corrected.....
?!? I’m nonplussed. How do you figure a pre-production test engine and one that is in revenue service are both “the same engine” design?
The new philosophy with aerospace manufacturers similar to automotive companies of choosing suppliers with only the lowest bid as criteria is starting to backfire.
New technologies take time to mature, and all new technologies have teething pains. Every new introduction of engine design or materials will come with problems. If you keep introducing new technologies so frequently, you will also have a steady stream of problems.