787nightmare
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- Aug 28, 2010
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Are you claiming that 787s won't get a heavy check for 11 years after delivery? AA gets its first 787 in late 2014, so I would expect a heavy check within about six years of that, or by late 2020.
Well....first external structural inspection at 6 yrs & first internal inspection at 12 yrs. See link below, pg 23, middle area.
Upside to extensive use of CFRP & new technology(to the airline industry)employed on that plane. Now...if they can "exorcise" the gremlins out of that plane.
http://www.boeing.co...06_article4.pdf
If link doesn't work, just Google "787 heavy check", look for Boeing link.