Even More Wrong With 787 (oh boy!)

[sporky]

The wing damage that grounded Boeing's new composite 787 Dreamliner occurred under less stress than previously reported — and is more extensive.

An engineer familiar with the details said the damage happened when the stress on the wings was well below the load the wings must bear to be federally certified to carry passengers.


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/b ... ing30.html (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/boeingaerospace/2009565319_boeing30.html)

This is quite disturbing to hear, at least for me. Gotta wonder if it is at all due to off-shoring the wing construction.

-Tad

[Fighting_falcon_51]

Im going to feel very confident when I fly on it. :roll:

[GrummanFan]

This is quite disturbing to hear, at least for me. Gotta wonder if it is at all due to off-shoring the wing construction.

-Tad

I think its more due to engineers not fully understanding how the composite materials were going to perform under stress. It's been said before, but they should have expected these unexpected anomalies.