Nearly three months after a global grounding, aircraft manufacturer Boeing is reportedly close to getting its embattled 787 Dreamliner jets back in the skies.
The Chicago-based firm has been conducting test flights with its newly redesigned lithium ion batteries in the hopes of getting the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to clear the planes for flight. A pair of these batteries caught fire back in January – including an All Nippon Airways flight which was forced to make an emergency landing as a result of the problem.
Boeing still has no idea what caused batteries to catch fire – although the company has apparently rigged up a solution that would prevent such fires from spreading in the future. In fact its new batteries are designed to prevent up to eighty possible causes of the conflagrations which grounded the plane back in January.
Let’s hope that’s enough …
Boeing referred to its most recent test flight as “the final certification test for the new battery system, completing the testing required by the FAA.”
Even before the grounding, Boeing was facing immense pressure to turn a profit on the plane. Originally scheduled for delivery in May of 2008, numerous design, supply and delivery problems pushed Dreamliner’s deadline back more than three years – causing numerous cancellations.
We’re glad the company appears to have resolved its issues … especially seeing how much South Carolina tax money (and state government debt) is tied up in the Dreamliner facility located in North Charleston, S.C.
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Look, look up in the sky, what is it
Is it a bird, Is it a plane, Is it Superman, Is it Mighty Mouse, Is it Templeton heading home
Hell no, it is one of those damn Haley Boeing Roman Candles in a death dive trying to blow their battery fire out
Look, look up in the sky, what is it
Is it a bird, Is it a plane, Is it Superman, Is it Mighty Mouse, Is it Templeton heading home
Hell no, it is one of those damn Haley Boeing Roman Candles in a death dive trying to blow their battery fire out
I wonder if Sanford failed to get some Boeing “Sweet-Heart” deal, or maybe he didn’t get his palms greased in campaign contrbutions, when his name became “mud.”
That’s usually the case when you see this level of opposition to a job-producing company by a dormant politician and his top operative.
Hard to figure why FITS HATES to see South Carolinaians w/ Jobs, especially when Obama has failed to deliver jobs upon Obama’s FITS-aided re-election..
Obama said he has his ‘BOOT ON THE NECK’ of business and “You didn’t build that.” I guess FITS and Sanford think unemployment is a catchy theme, so they now want to suffoctae SC familes, too.
I wonder if Sanford failed to get some Boeing “Sweet-Heart” deal, or maybe he didn’t get his palms greased in campaign contrbutions, when his name became “mud.”
That’s usually the case when you see this level of opposition to a job-producing company by a dormant politician and his top operative.
Hard to figure why FITS HATES to see South Carolinaians w/ Jobs, especially when Obama has failed to deliver jobs upon Obama’s FITS-aided re-election..
Obama said he has his ‘BOOT ON THE NECK’ of business and “You didn’t build that.” I guess FITS and Sanford think unemployment is a catchy theme, so they now want to suffoctae SC familes, too.
Here is a link to article today on the 787 with two test flight videos. The second video is labeled “combat takeoff”……
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2305539/Video-shows-Boeing-787s-acrobatic-abilities-set-cleared-fly-again.html
Here is a link to article today on the 787 with two test flight videos. The second video is labeled “combat takeoff”……
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2305539/Video-shows-Boeing-787s-acrobatic-abilities-set-cleared-fly-again.html
Did anyone notice that the plane in the picture is owned by Polish Airlines?
Did anyone notice that the plane in the picture is owned by Polish Airlines?