Boeing officials say their long-awaited 787 Dreamliner will make its first flight in June.
No, really.
This time they mean it.
That’s what it’s come to for the giant aircraft maker. After four delays in developing the world’s first commercial jet with a lightweight, all-composite fuselage, such pronouncements from Boeing executives are immediately questioned, even scoffed at by the aviation industry’s cognoscenti.
But Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Scott Carson, whose latest assurance that the 787 will fly before the end of Junecame at a JPMorgan Chase investor’s conference earlier this month, understands.
“The stumbles we have made have been embarrassing for us,” he says. “They’ve been embarrassing for our customers, who are counting on us to have the right product available on time.”
By: TRIDENT MAN - 28th March 2009 at 20:10
The pig did suffer fewer delays though.
Apart from breaking off it’s mooring and drifting off!!:D
By: David Kerr - 28th March 2009 at 20:10
“The stumbles we have made have been embarrassing for us,” he says. “They’ve been embarrassing for our customers, who are counting on us to have the right product available on time.”
Wonder if he’s also a bit embarrassed by a few airlines not looking too favourably on the numbers coming out of Boeing for the initial batch of the 7-late-7s? Still, looking on the bright side, it does mean a few new “long thin” UK regional long-haul routes are getting half a step closer to fruition.
By: Dazza - 28th March 2009 at 19:41
😀 Priceless!
-Dazza
By: Robert Hilton - 28th March 2009 at 17:18
Well Pink Floyd got a pig airborne so I can see no reason why Boeing shouldn’t get the 787 into the air.
The pig did suffer fewer delays though.
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March 27, 2009 at 10:44 pm