Chicago-based Boeing Company announced on Tuesday that the cardinal airliner of the 787 Dreamliner, which is scheduled by the end of this month and has already been two years delayed, will be postponed for the fifth epoch due to a for to strengthen an area within the side-of-body split of the aircraft. In a statement, Boeing said the want was identified during the new regularly scheduled tests on the full-scale immobile test airplane. Preliminary investigation indicated that flight check could proceed this month as planned.
However, after further testing and deliberation of possible modified bevy test plans, the decidedness was made late last week that original flight should instead be postponed until generative flight testing could occur. Boeing has postponed the commencement aircraft for four times in past two years, citing parts shortages, defects, redesign stint and problems with suppliers for disrupting development. Boeing didn't give the express rescheduled programme of the initially winging and first delivery. The airplane ogre just indicated that after the irrefutable determination of the required modification and testing plan, "Several weeks" will be needed before the imaginative arrange is available.
According to the statement, the 787 gang will resume with other aspects of testing on Airplane No. 1, including settled gauntlet testing and low-speed taxiing. Work will also pick up on the other five escape try aircraft and the subsequent aircraft in the producing system.
"Consideration was given to a transient solution that would allow us to fly as scheduled, but we basically concluded that the right fashion was to develop, design, test and unify a permanent modification to the localized field requiring reinforcement," said Scott Carson, president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. However, Carson said on June 16 at the Paris Air Show that the "airplane could flutter today" and reiterated the expect for the first-flight by the month's end. Boeing said its monetary handling will be updated to display any impression of these changes when the train issues its b leniency 2009 stipend report in July.
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