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Yet more problems for the Boeing 787!

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EHM-1465 Dominic:
In another blow for Boeing's latest aircraft program, they have had to carry out additional inspections on their 787 Fleet which will delay the flight test program.

Full details HERE.

What do you think? Just the norm for a project of this size or a sign of deeper issues at Boeing?

EHM-2387 Eric-Jan:
The purpose of testing is to verify your assumptions. Even if you think you are sure of them ;)
So, if Boeing learned something from ZA003 (which is in fact a nice way of saying they underestimated something in the design stage, and hit a snag), then it is only good project management to go sort out the issue at hand, and in the mean time have the remaining test work divided up over all available prototypes, for as far as that's possible.
When introducing new technology to such complex systems such as this aircraft, you are bound to hit some setbacks.

I don't think it's just Boeing that has these "problems". To any degree, they are symptomous to any high-tech project. 

EHM-1001 Robert:
I guess all the competitors eagerly watch the Boeing progress and think through their own projects when such a news pops-up. I mean the new composite bodies e.g. the  Airbus A350, or Bombardier C-Series, etc.

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