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Old 09-13-2013 | 05:46 PM
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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
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Originally Posted by Wilbur Wright
Yes, but I think that's for aircraft(replacement/growth?) that won't be coming until 2018 and beyond. This 10 A330 order is a bridge until we get the next gen of A350, B787 and/or B777X.
Our version of the 787 will be flying soon. It is quite a bit different airplane. Different wing box, different tail, different electrics, different fuselage join and something like 20% better economics per seat than the -8. Boeing needs to get the dispatch reliability up to at least 99.7% and figure out how to get more than .8 airplanes per month out of their anti-labor plant down in Charleston.