Composite Dream Decayed

A recent letter to this column “Recipe for Disaster?” (AW&ST July 20, p. 8) is the most cogent listing of how the 787 “Dreamliner” has become Boeing’s and the airline industry’s nightmare. If the engineers wanted to hear a cautionary tale about rushing into building things out of composites, all...

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