Baroque
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Post by Baroque on Sept 2, 2016 13:16:07 GMT 1
It's Airbus. TLS has poached the Boeing workers to fill in for their August vacation void, so that the year end delivery target can be met.
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Post by stealthmanbob on Sept 2, 2016 14:51:45 GMT 1
It's Airbus. TLS has poached the Boeing workers to fill in for their August vacation void, so that the year end delivery target can be met. I thought Boeing were re jigging the B787 assembly line(s) at Everett during the summer holiday period. The reason being that Everett will have to up its production rate of -8 and -9s because when the one line at Charlston FAL starts loading -1000 frames its monthly output rate will drop for quite a few months
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Post by stealthmanbob on Sept 6, 2016 11:31:14 GMT 1
From Nyc787.blogspot.co.uk It seems that Boeing's attempt to convince Pakistan International Airlines to convert an order for 5 777-300ER has borne fruit and PIA will convert the order to 8 787-9s. This follows a letter (which was leaked) from BCA President Ray Conner to Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif offering to convert the 777 order to 787.
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philidor
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Post by philidor on Sept 6, 2016 12:18:19 GMT 1
It seems that Boeing's attempt to convince Pakistan International Airlines to convert an order for 5 777-300ER has borne fruit and PIA will convert the order to 8 787-9s. This follows a letter (which was leaked) from BCA President Ray Conner to Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif offering to convert the 777 order to 787. This is an offer by Boeing, we don't know the answer, if any ... I doubt fleet consistence is going to be the main concern taken into consideration.
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Post by stealthmanbob on Nov 22, 2016 12:02:37 GMT 1
A major production mistake has taken place at the North Charleston FAL, may need to scrap a frame !
From nyc787.blogspot.co.uk - (longer article here)
"Assembly accident may force Boeing to scrap 787-9 under construction According to sources, an assembly mishap during the wing-body join for a 787-9 destined for Xiamen Airlines may force Boeing to scrap the left wing of the aircraft and possibly the fuselage itself as well. The aircraft in question, ZB813 (LN 512) entered final assembly on November 1, 2016 in North Charleston and was due to be delivered in January 2017.
The mishap came when manufacturing techs drilled holes into the stack up of the wing/body join. They drilled a 7 degree angled hole, and also drilled an over sized hole straight through the test (angled) hole which didn't clean it up. It produced an eyebrow crack on both sides.
Boeing engineers will have to look at putting in a large expansion plug (or freeze plug) but it is a large hole that has to be plugged. "
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Baroque
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Post by Baroque on Nov 22, 2016 14:51:30 GMT 1
Aircraft abortion?
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Post by stealthmanbob on Dec 8, 2016 17:53:29 GMT 1
The Trent 1000 TEN for the B787-10 has flown on a B787, just not on the -10 yet
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kronus
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Post by kronus on Jan 31, 2017 7:13:51 GMT 1
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mjoelnir
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Post by mjoelnir on Mar 20, 2017 20:56:53 GMT 1
When I looked at all things 787 and looked at his 787 tables and there at 787 monthly production and delivery tracking, one does see that Boeing, in regards to loading of frames, is not producing 12 frames a month, but rather 10 to 11 a month in 2015 and 2016 and under 10 in 2014. That means 118 frames loaded in 2014, 124 in 2015 and 128 in 2016. Higher delivery numbers are based on older frames leaving the production too. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FH3Y2-vRUgojntPkCSJI5Pd-15rsJ1a0SFCRaT-iqgo/edit#gid=48
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Post by stealthmanbob on Mar 21, 2017 1:05:23 GMT 1
My thoughts are that Boeing works on an 11 month year, more realistic.
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