Dreamliner Update

Jon Ostrower's flightblogger has a great article updating the construction of B787 Dreamliner 4.  This is the fourth test aircraft for the 787 program. Jon's got some good pictures too. 

Flightglobal.com is a great site with several commercial aviation related blogs. Very good stuff.

clipped from www.flightglobal.com Two 747s touched down yesterday evening at Paine Field in Everett carrying the nose section and center fuselage for Dreamliner Four, marking the commencement of the next phase of assembly of the flight test 787s. The center fuselage, which spent almost eleven months in Charleston, arrived with a greater completion of assembly than was previously forecasted, sources confirm. Delivery was supposed to take place in late June, though damage sustained on the center fuselage forced a re-evaluation of Boeing's schedule to both repair the damage and continue to reduce the amount of traveled work flowing to final assembly in Everett. When Boeing outlined its revised schedule in April, the beginning of final assembly of Dreamliner Four was identified as a significant program milestone. Boeing has lost roughly five weeks of assembly time on Dreamliner Four, though the reduction in traveled work may end up putting Boeing ahead of where it otherwise would have been had the section shipped on time.

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