Did anyone else catch a very brief item in the Channel 7 news this morning saying that Boeing is once again delaying the completion of their Dreamliner 787s 'due to a worldwide shortage of fasteners'?
This extract is from the Sydney Morning Herald:
"The delays have mounted in part because so much is new with the 787, from the wide use of lightweight composite materials instead of aluminum to a manufacturing process that relies on vendors to build large sections of the plane that Boeing later assembles. A center wing box that attaches wings to the plane had to be strengthened, and the company ran short of fasteners."
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