In a very loud wake up call to Boeing, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which makes the carbon fibre wings for the troubled 787 Dreamliner project, has dumped the use of this composite material in its own regional jet project, says Ben Sandilands.
Boeing dreamliner
Dreamliner in 2010? Boeing’s eyebrow-raising schedule
Boeing announced today that the first of the belated Dreamliner 787s will be delivered next year. But that makes for a pretty crunched test flight period, says an unconvinced Ben Sandilands.
787 becomes a moving target, again
After several delays, the No2 Dreamliner in the 787 flight test fleet has been doing taxying tests at Everett.
Boeing’s toxic corporate culture
With every lie and evasion that Boeing utters about its 787 Dreamliner, the story becomes less about an airliner than the wider issue of corporate cultural failure, says Ben Sandilands
Boeing’s flightless wonder turns and brakes…
One day before the second anniversary of the ‘faux’ roll-out of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the prototype has moved under its own power at Paine field, Everett, near Seattle.
Dreamliner — is it an impossible dream?
The most alarming question to arise from the Dreamliner fiasco is whether high composite airliners are doomed to fail, writes Ben Sandliands.
Qantas flies away from Dreamliner deal. What next?
Having canceled 15 Dreamliners, Qantas is working out how to fill any gaps left by a 787 situation that is now looking worse by the day.
Dreamliner: great until the wings peeled off
The enormity of the problems with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner are only just starting to sink in.
Bad times at Boeing — Dreamliner delayed again
At the end of last September Boeing solemnly promised first delivery of a 787 to All Nippon by this August, says Ben Sandilands. It’s not going to happen.
Boeing Dreamliner hype still just a pipe dream
If you believed any of the hype about the Boeing Dreamliners of which up to 115 have been ordered or optioned by Qantas and Jetstar, you’ve been had, writes Ben Sandilands.
