Boeing News
Boeing News
From AP -- Boeing profit up 17%; no update on 787 scheadule -- The second-quarter profit topped expectations, largely on growth in defense programs. The Chicago-based company says it will announce a revised scheadule for it's long-delayed 787 jetliner in the third quarter.
- In today's Seattle Times -- Boeing 787 may not fly this year -- The structual flaw that delayed the first flight of the 787 is more complex than orginally described by the company, and it's inaugural takeoff is likely at least 4 to 6 months away, say two engineers with knowledge of the problem. (The 787 is already more than two years behind scheadule, or 12 "strikes," a 2-month unit of measurement based on the 2008 Machinists strike some blame for Boeing's woes. The latest problem extends the 787 delay by at lease two to three more strikes.)
- In today's Everett Herald -- House to debate tanker deal today -- The appropriations committee will discuss the $35 billion tanker contract when it reviews the 2010 defense spending bill during a hearing this morning. House appropriators have written legislation that allows the Air Force to buy up to 36 tankers annually. That's a faster pace than what the Pentagon had planned.
- In today's Hartford Courant -- Pratt & Whitney threatens to shut down plant -- Blaming "the downturn in the global economy and its impact on the aerospace industry," the company threatens to shut down one of its three Connecticut plants that employs about 1,000 people. Pratt intends to negotiate with the Machinists union over alternatives to closure
