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Originally Posted by KW10001
Well, as seen in my eyes, it doesn't seem the A380's are flyin off the line..... is this true, and what about the 787, seems to me that Boeing is doing quite well.....
The A380 suffered a big production delay caused by seemingly minor technical issues with some wiring harnesses which snowballed. The revised date for first airline service (Singapore I think) is early summer 2008. Airbus is officialy holding to that date, but it loks like they will beat it by a month or two.
The 787 has a very aggressive design and flight test schedule...the first flight is scheduled soon (next month?) and so far is on track. But there's no room for error in boeing's schedule...any hiccup will delay flight testing and possibly delivery. They are definately taking some risk...the whole 787 program is about risk. If they pull it off smoothly it will pay off in a massive way.