Boeing: 787 first delivery may be delayed to 2011

[straitman]

Just a little more information on this from what is considered as a reliable industry publication. See the link for more details.

Oil Fire Suspected In Trent 1000 Failure

Sep 1, 2010

By Guy Norris guy_norris@aviationweek.com
LOS ANGELES
New details of last month’s Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 uncontained failure are emerging that have impacted the Boeing 787 delivery schedule once more.

Indicators point to a fault with the oil system which led to a fire developing inside the engine and damaged not just the engine, but also the infrastructure involved in the trial.

The Aug. 2 incident on a ‘Package A’ configuration engine later prompted Boeing to push back first 787 deliveries to launch customer All Nippon Airways to February 2011; the aircraft maker had planned to hand over the first aircraft by year-end under the latest of several schedule revisions.

Boeing says “the delivery date revision follows an assessment of the availability of an engine needed for the final phases of flight test this fall,” and subsequently confirmed that the affected shipset had been due to power 787 Line No.9, an aircraft added to the extended twin-engine operations performance standards (ETOPS) test effort.

[Sprucegoose]

thanks Bill, very interesting.

When are the QF deliveries due. It must be costing Boeing some dough in liquidated damages I would say.


We are still flying those aging 767's as a result i believe!!!! It must have upset the maintenance schedules and budget somewhat. Maybe an QF insider can comment?

cheers

SPRUCE

[TheInsider]

Personally i have no idea on what impact this is having on QF at the moment.

[docjames]

Personally i have no idea on what impact this is having on QF at the moment.

You would think it'd be down to maintenance cost on the 763s vs finance cost on the 788/789s.

I cant imagine it's too negative, but if reliability worsens, it'll start costing more.

When would the 763s be due for D checks as presumably QF would like to be rid of them before then.