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The source personally inspected the stabilizer recently and said it was covered with pieces of blue tape, each piece indicating some kind of defect or area that needed attention.
These "workmanship" issues, as another Boeing person described them, can be fixed but it means more work. Boeing reportedly has talked with Alenia about its quality-control procedures to make sure the second stabilizer that arrives in Everett is in better shape.
Sounds like the typical over-compensated, slacker Italians! Originally Posted by Seattle P.I.
Stabilizer defects. What may not have been expected or planned for was the arrival condition of the 787's horizontal stabilizer. This is the winglike structure on the tail. The 62-foot composite stabilizer is made by Alenia in Italy. It was the first of the large 787 structures to arrive at the Everett plant, on April 24.The source personally inspected the stabilizer recently and said it was covered with pieces of blue tape, each piece indicating some kind of defect or area that needed attention.
These "workmanship" issues, as another Boeing person described them, can be fixed but it means more work. Boeing reportedly has talked with Alenia about its quality-control procedures to make sure the second stabilizer that arrives in Everett is in better shape.
And don't anybody go get butt hurt over that comment, I'm an Italian and know what we're like..
