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Дримлайнер опять переносится, теперь на 2010 г
Первая поставка - начало 2010 г, первый полет - второй квартал 2009 г. Чтой-то не верится, что за полгода после первого полета они сертификат получат, так что первая поставка в 1 кв 2010 выглядит также туманной
Boeing Delays 787 Dreamliner 4th Time, to Early 2010 (Update2)
By Susanna Ray
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Boeing Co. said the 787 Dreamliner is now almost two years behind schedule and won't reach customers until the first quarter of 2010, the fourth delay for the best- selling new aircraft in the planemaker's history.
The jet won't fly for the first time until next year's second quarter, after factories were idled for eight weeks by a machinists' strike and some fasteners had to be replaced, Chicago-based Boeing said in a statement today. The most recent goals had been to fly this quarter and ship the planes in the third quarter of 2009.
Boeing is "finalizing and incorporating remaining engineering changes and completing systems testing, qualifications and certification" to prepare for the flight, program manager Pat Shanahan said in the statement. Boeing is still revising the delivery schedule for customers, and the financial impact will be announced at a later date.
The 787, unveiled in July 2007, was due to enter service with All Nippon Airways Co. in May this year after Boeing's shortest-ever flight-test program, arriving as airlines clamored for more-efficient planes to counter higher fuel prices. The Dreamliner has instead been beset by parts shortages, hitches with suppliers and the recent strike, setting Boeing further behind in its goal of surpassing Airbus SAS.
"It's like deja vu, all these things coming back to haunt us -- fasteners, flight-testing concerns and further delivery delays," Rob Stallard, an analyst at Macquarie Research Equities in New York, said in an interview yesterday.
895 Orders
Boeing has orders for 895 Dreamliners valued at about $155 billion. The planemaker, led by Chief Executive Officer Jim McNerney, has lost about 60 percent of its market value since the first 787 delay, in October 2007. The stock fell $1.22, or 2.9 percent, to $40.46 at 9:32 a.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.
Boeing is using new carbon composites instead of aluminum in much of the 787, adding complications to a new manufacturing process. Suppliers in the U.S., Italy and Japan are supposed to build 70 percent of the plane and ship completed sections to Boeing's Everett, Washington, factory for final assembly.
The different languages and time zones hampered communication and stymied Boeing's ability to fix problems that cropped up, Joseph Campbell, an analyst with Barclay's Plc in New York, said in an interview yesterday.
"This program now has reached a level of delays and things going wrong that are really frustrating and beyond expectations" for both observers and long-time Boeing engineers, said Campbell, who has analyzed the company since the early 1980s. "It's out of character for Boeing. Normally Boeing prides itself on being on- time and will overrun its budget in order to be on time."
Airbus Competition
While Airbus has also suffered program delays, the Toulouse, France-based company's 525-seat A380 superjumbo successfully completed a test flight three months after its roll-out and encountered problems only once it entered production. The world's largest planemaker, a unit of European Aeronautic, Defence & Space Co., also had to redesign its A350 model, pushing production back to 2013 from as early as 2010.
The Dreamliner's first flight was originally targeted for August 2007. The first customer, Japan's All Nippon, said in September that Boeing had told it before the strike to expect the plane in August 2009, which would have been 15 months later than the original target. Japan Airlines Corp., due to be the 787's second operator, said earlier today that it was informed of an additional six-month delay but hasn't yet been given a new delivery date.
Boeing previously had said that a 57-day strike by the machinists, its largest union, over wages and job security would generate at least a day-for-day delay in all its programs. The strike ended Nov. 2 and cost the company about $10 million a day in lost profit during the third quarter.
To contact the reporter on this story: Susanna Ray in Washingto