Boeing 787 Program Vice President and General Manager Pat Shanahan will provide a comprehensive update to the media this morning at 9:00 AM GMT (4 AM ET) at the Farnborough Air Show. Complete liveblog transcript after the jump.| flightblogger End of update. Shanahan looks forward to showing the airplane at Paris 2009. |
| flightblogger Clarification: ship date to be finalized this week. |
| flightblogger ZA004 ship date finalized this week. |
| flightblogger GA experience level isn't the same as in Everett. |
| flightblogger Once hydraulic power on is complete gear will star swinging. Now undergoing func. testing. |
| flightblogger ZA001 balance of work left on midbody. |
| flightblogger ZA001 hydraulic power on next week. |
| flightblogger In service composite repair "high on list of processes to improve." |
| flightblogger -9 firm config by 2Q09. EIS 1st part or 2012. |
| flightblogger -9 trade studies done by December. How much of the -8 goes into -9. |
| flightblogger Reduced threshold of travelled work to get higher level of compl. from suppliers. |
| flightblogger 96% of hardware qualified, 100% by 1st, 2nd week of August. |
| flightblogger "Supplier partners are ramping up quickly, I'm now the bottleneck." |
| flightblogger Shanahan: Dave Hess did a magnificent job delivering the power system on time. |
| flightblogger Shanahan: "This is great, they don't let me out a lot." |
| flightblogger Shanahan is running through general program highlights and features |
| flightblogger Shanahan: 787 is a Leap Forward |
| flightblogger 787 briefing getting underway |
on July 15, 2008 11:09 AM | Reply
The Boeing Diagram!
They seem to be identifying two ZA003 (Dreamliner 3 and Dreamliner 4)
Mislabled?
Mike