Boeing’s long awaited Dreamliner 787 has had yet another setback, the incident described as aan engine surge occurred during a test flight of the first plane off the production line. Testing is taking place at Roswell, New Mexico. Boeing said they didn’t know if the latest problem would delay the delivery dates of the dreamliner, which is already 3 years behind schedule.
The Rolls-Royce engine experienced air flow problems causing it to backfire, a new engine will be transported to Roswell to get the plane back in the sky, whilst tests are carried out by Boeing and Rolls-Royce on the faulty engine.
Even with all the problems the Dreamliner has had to overcome it is still the company’s best selling plane at this stage of development with 847 planes already ordered from various airlines. The Dreamliner is expected to be running scheduled flights by March 2010.
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