"Significant technical and production problems":
- The fuselage section, the big multipart cylindrical barrel that encompasses the passenger seating area, has failed in company testing.
- Suppliers struggling to meet Boeing's exacting technological demands and ambitious production deadlines.
- Test versions of the nose section deemed unacceptable by Boeing.
- Overall weight of the airplane still too high -- especially the single biggest part of the 787, the carbon-fiber wing.
- Engineers discovering that worrisome bubbles were developing in the skin of the fuselage during the process of baking the plastic composite tape.
here is the whole article:
http://www.businessweek.com/technolo...607_864925.htm
Could this mean delays for the hundreds of Aircrafts on order?