Design Issues Starting To Plague 787

Credit: MICHAEL MECHAM/AW&ST
Months may transpire before Boeing is able to do what it failed to accomplish in the last week of June—fly the 787 for the first time—following the revelation that the new airplane’s composite wing induced delamination and deformation on body join points during a routine preflight stress test. The...

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