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EHM-0654 Murray:
Found this on one of my favourite technology news websites...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/11/dreamliner_delayed/

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EHM-1651 Christian:
See also Boeing press release:
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/news/2007/q4/071010d_nr.html

I hope for Boeings sake that they don't run into any further problems regarding the launch of the B787.

Although as an Airbus fan I must at least make a little smile after all the Boeing fantatics all over airliners.net have said that the B-787 would newer be delayed.

EHM-2155 Mariano:
Id be more concerned about this article:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/19/dreamliner_allegations/

Unsafe huh... thatd suck, after all the hype about the 87

EHM-0654 Murray:
Yeh, that's the engineer that used to work for them and was "invited to leave the organization" as they say in the 'States... (in other words, sacked in all but name...)

It's hard to say for sure at this point, we (Joe Public) don't get to see the internal Boeing crash reports, we have to wait for the ICAO/US CAA reports to be made public, and I'd suspect the plane will be in the air officially before that happens.

EHM-2155 Mariano:
It does make sense though, what he says, plastic and composites shatter instead of bending (like we see often in Formula 1 crashes), and it could be a bad choice. I dunno about the toxic smoke but it does make sense too.

At the very least these two news should shut up Boeing fanboys about the 380's and 350's delays and production problems for a while...

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