787 Dreamliner
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Air India cracks down on striking pilots
In a hardening of stance, the carrier’s management sacks 30 more pilots bringing total to 101
22 May 2012
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ANA takes delivery of 2nd B787
Boeing delivered its second B787 Dreamliner to All Nippon Airways (ANA) last month, on the same day as the second delivery of its other new aircraft, the B747-8 Freighter, to European carrier Cargolux
08 November 2011
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AMERICAS: Boeing’s Model 40 meets the 787 Dreamliner at 12,000ft
Boeing’s latest commercial aircraft, the 787 Dreamliner, caught up to its very early predecessor, a Boeing Model 40, in the skies over Mount Rainier south of Seattle in early May. The fully restored 1928 vintage Boeing Model 40 is the only flyable…
01 June 2010
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AMERICAS: Boeing finds new problem in 787
Boeing has halted production of 787 Dreamliner fuselage sections at the Alenia Aeronautica, a subsidiary of Finmeccanica, factory in Italy after new flaws were found in the aircraft’s lightweight carbon composite fuselage. Boeing found microscopic…
01 September 2009
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787 Dreamliner production resumes
Production of Boeing 787 Dreamliners resumed at the end of January with the join of the fifth airplane designated for flight test. Designated ZA005, this fifth airframe is the first to be powered with General Electric GEnx engines with the previous…
11 February 2009
