{"id":389736,"date":"2020-12-16T08:32:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T03:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=389736"},"modified":"2020-12-16T09:23:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T03:53:57","slug":"boeing-expands-search-for-defects-on-newly-built-787-dreamliner-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeing-expands-search-for-defects-on-newly-built-787-dreamliner-planes\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing expands search for defects on newly built 787 Dreamliner planes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing Co. has widened its inspections of newly built 787 Dreamliner planes to hunt for additional manufacturing defects that could prematurely age the jets\u2019 carbon-fiber frames. <\/p>\n<p>While US regulators say the faults don\u2019t pose an immediate hazard, the emergence of another flaw in Boeing\u2019s most advanced jetliner is slowing deliveries and raising doubts about quality controls. The company didn\u2019t deliver any 787 jets in November, Chief Financial Officer Greg Smith said earlier this month, citing inspections that took longer than expected. <\/p>\n<p>The latest issue involves tiny variances, or wrinkles, in the interior lining where composite fuselage barrels are linked to create the Dreamliner\u2019s structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing Co. has widened its inspections of newly built 787 Dreamliner planes to hunt for additional manufacturing defects that could prematurely age the jets\u2019 carbon-fiber frames. While US regulators say the faults don\u2019t pose an immediate hazard, the emergence of another flaw in Boeing\u2019s most advanced jetliner is slowing deliveries and raising doubts about quality controls. The company didn\u2019t deliver any 787 jets in November, Chief Financial Officer Greg Smith said earlier this month, citing inspections that took longer than expected. The latest issue involves tiny variances, or wrinkles, in the interior lining where composite fuselage barrels are linked to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}