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Article: Boeing delays Dreamliner test flight again
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 24, 2009
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Business in brief
AIRLINES Boeing postponed the test flight of its long-delayed 787
Dreamliner again yesterday in a move that disappointed investors and
customers who have ordered the revolutionary carbon-composite
aircraft. The aircraft maker did not give a new date for the first
flight or the first delivery, which will also be rescheduled. The
aircraft, already two years behind its original schedule, was to fly
for the first time in the second quarter of 2009. Shares in Boeing
fell 9 per cent in early trade in New York.
Boeing said it delayed the test flight to reinforce an area
within the side-of-body section of the aircraft.
"Structural modifications like these are not uncommon in the ...