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Article: Boeing Says Dreamliner Is on Schedule; First 787s Expected to Be Delivered Late Next Year Despite Supply 'Wrinkles'
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- The Washington Post
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- December 12, 2007
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Boeing said it was still working through problems in the supply
chain for its new 787 Dreamliner but would deliver the first
aircraft, as scheduled, in late 2008.
There are "significant supply-chain wrinkles," Scott Carson,
chief of Boeing's commercial airplane group, said yesterday in a
conference call with reporters. Parts shortages are receding, and
the fasteners needed to assemble the aircraft are more available,
Boeing said.
The Dreamliner has 762 orders, valued at more than $120 billion,
making it Boeing's most successful new aircraft in terms of sales.
On Oct. 10, the company delayed first delivery by six months, to as
late as December 2008, because of parts shortages and to allow ...