All things 787

Now that we're at the end of July I thought that it would be a good time to look at some articles that have recently come out regarding ...

The second production 787 ZA 101 bound for ANA will soon enter final assembly at Boeing's Everett plant. The forward fuselage section f...

In an article that echoed Flightblogger's post yesterday, Dominic Gates of the Seattle Times reported that the 787 may not be ready to ...

With today 2nd quarter earnings release from Boeing we also got a little bit more information on the status of the 787. 1) Boeing will relea...

Flightblogger got another scoop on the 787 wing fix. It still boils down to the fact that Boeing is in the middle of designing the interim ...

UPDATE 2: Boeing sent out a press release about Z005. This is a scheme that will be painted on the other three test flight airplanes as well...

Today marks the 40 th anniversary of a mind boggling milestone. 50 years ago people would not believe that humans had the capability and th...

I've been out of commission for a week or so but I with the 787 essentially out of commission as well until the side of body structural ...

Flightblogger , Jon Ostrower , obtained more pics and video from yesterday's taxi tests of ZA 001. More video and photos of the taxi tes...

Two year ago Boeing rolled out the 787 on 7/8/07 in a huge media event emceed by Tom Brokaw. Boeing was very proud of what they had accompli...

Another UPDATE (7:00 pm EDT): Boeing confirmed to me that they did low speed RTO (rejected takeoff) tests but they did not do any high speed...

Just hot off the press from Boeing: Boeing Announces Agreement to Acquire Vought Operations in South Carolina -- Accelerates productivity an...

A quick round up of the latest goings on: 1) ZA 001 finished final gauntlet testing. Boeing wrapped that up on the evening of July 2 nd . 2)...

Boeing has confirmed to me that final gauntlet testing has begun on ZA001 and is currently on going. Boeing will have a better idea of when ...

Matt Cawby got pictures of ZA 002 ( Dreamliner 2) initial engine runs that took place yesterday. ZA 002 initial engine runs

Flightblogger got a major scoop today by saying that Vought (owned by the Carlyle Group) has agreed to sell Boeing the 787 operations in C...

Mike Mecham wrote very nice comprehensive article in Aviation Week detailing the latest design issue on the 787. Of note in the article is w...

Boy when you think that things possibly couldn't get worse, I woke up to this news. QANTAS, citing the current economic climate, decided...

In an interview with reporters Mike Mecham , Guy Norris and Jens Flottau , Boeing CEO Jim McNerney gave the strongest indication that Boein...

Flightblogger has put up a post in which he explained in greater detail the issue that's facing the 787 side-of-body joint as well as pu...