“Boeing (BA) shipped 50 of its roughly half-a-million pound, $207 million retail-price 787 Dreamliners to airlines. But since January 16th, they’ve been grounded thanks to lithium-ion batteries that burned up at a much faster rate than expected. For example, there was a fire on board a parked plane at Boston’s Logan airport and an in-flight problem on another jet in Japan.
But Boeing is keeping the 787 production lines running — and the grounded planes are taking up space on nearby runways.
Meanwhile two reports have surfaced about possible fixes for the 787 battery problems. If MIT professor, Donald R. Sadoway, is right, those reported fixes are at best partial solutions.
The New York Times reports that Boeing is producing a Dreamliner a week at its production facilities in Everett, Wash. and Charleston, S.C.. But since the 787 is grounded, those planes are piling up. The Times quotes aviation magazine editor, Mary Kirby, who drove by Paine Field in Everett during the second week of February and was shocked to see: “Parked Boeing 787s are everywhere.” …”
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