Aerospace Market Trends: 787 Dreamliner Fastener Shortage Traced to 9/11

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787 Dreamliner Fastener Shortage Traced to 9/11
Photos Included: Huge production cutbacks dating back six years are behind supply problems of highly-engineered, tight-tolerance fasteners used on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A380. Full Story

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Aerospace Technology in the News:

Design News readers, you've spoken. Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Chief Project Engineer Tom Cogan is this year's Engineer of the Year. Read all about Tom and the EoY runners up.
Boeing Confirms 787 Delay, Fasteners, Flight Control Software Code Blamed Boeing officials confirmed that a fastener shortage and problems with flight control software have pushed “first flight” of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner to late November or early December. Full Story
New Designs, Alloys Boost Aluminum in Aircraft Exclusive: New aluminum concepts cut weight and costs 15 to 20 percent and will provide stiff competition to plastic composites for the next single-aisle and other commercial planes. Full Story
Boeing Performs Crash Test on 787 Dreamliner Boeing performed a crash test on its new compositely constructed 787 Dreamliner by dropping a cutaway section of the fuselage onto a test platform. Full Story
Boeing’s New X-48B Plane Prototype Takes Test Flight Boeing’s Phantom Works division, in conjunction with NASA and the U.S. Air Force, has developed and tested its new X-48B blended wing body aircraft. The team tested the remotely operated prototype at the NASA Dryden Research Center. Full Story

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787 Dreamliner Fastener Shortage Traced to 9/11

Boeing Confirms 787 Delay, Fasteners, Flight Control Software Code Blamed
New Designs, Alloys Boost Aluminum in Aircraft
Boeing Performs Crash Test on 787 Dreamliner
Boeing’s New X-48B Plane Prototype Takes Test Flight
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