Showing posts with label 787. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 787. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

How should Boeing do its books?

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What companies make, and report as income, depends on how they do their books.  For Boeing, the problem is accounting for the fantastic expe...
Saturday, June 13, 2015

EPA gets airborne

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The EPA just claimed jurisdiction over the world's airlines.  They are gonna publish regulations on aircraft emissions.  Not that this w...
Thursday, January 23, 2014

Some smoke, no fire

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Boeing's mods to the 787 battery system are at least partially successful.  On 14 Jan, this year, A JAL 787 started to smoke while stand...
Monday, October 21, 2013

Airbus wins Japan Airlines Order

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Japan Airlines just signed a deal to buy 31 A350 airliners from Airbus.  At $200 million each, this is $12 billon in sales, quite a chunk of...
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Body and fender work, in fiberglass.

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That 787 that caught fire at Heathrow.  The fire started when the emergency locator beacon caught fire.  This gadget transmits distress call...
Monday, July 15, 2013

Poor Boeing

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After the notorious lithium battery fires in the 787,  trouble struck again.  A parked 787 at Heathrow started smoking and the fire departme...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Suits never learn

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Aviation Week interviewed Boeing CEO Jim McNerney.  Aviation Week:  "In retrospect, was the amount of weight you saved with Lithium I...
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Thursday, February 28, 2013

Why have they not discovered a "root cause"?

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For the lithium battery problem on the 787?  According to yesterday's Wall St Journal, the National Transportation Safety Board doesn...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Lithium Batteries

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New Aviation Week came in, and it has stories about the 787 and its battery.  So far it looks like the battery is the culprit, not the charg...
Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Take no small slips

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The Boeing 787 Dreamliner program has just announced that the plane is going to be 6 months late. This flagship program, with 710 confirme...