Article: Boeing delays Dreamliner test flight again

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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 ...

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