Thu, Jun 18, 2009
Flight Rediness Review Scheduled For Saturday
After passing its
remaining ground tests with flying colors, Boeing executives say
the long-delayed 787 Dreamliner could be flying right now, and they
fully expect the maiden flight to take place later this month.
Speaking at the Paris Air Show, Scott Carson, head of
Boeing’s commercial-airplanes unit, told Bloomberg News
“I personally believe the airplane could fly today”.
Carson told the press that the reason Boeing was not flying the
Dreamliner at Paris was because there was no reason to risk flying
when all the benchmarking was not completed. "We don’t want
to take shortcuts,” he told the press.
Boeing is looking for some positive news from the show, since
they have yet to report a single order at Paris. Carson told
reporters that he thinks economic conditions have found the bottom,
and that the commercial jet division could start picking up again
in the next year. The Washington, DC Business Journal reports that
Carson does not look for layoffs from Boeing's production lines,
but that the company will cut production of the widebody 777 by 28
percent, and production of 767's and 747's will not be
increased.
Frost & Sullivan’s Aerospace & Defense Industry
Manager Wayne Plucker, an industry analyst, told the DC Business
Journal "The fact that they didn’t have to quietly announce
cancellations was a big thing. It’s not a bad airshow
considering the gloom and doom that’s been around the
industry for the last year. For Boeing, it’s not bad, and not
bad is good, so to speak.”
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