Yes!, wishful thinking...
Aviation Week And Space Technology had recently (just about 2 weeks ago) an article on the subject, they said that repair method was 'confidential', and if this very influential and otherwise extremely well informed weekly doesn't know there is a fat chance someone on this forum will ...

So you think it's highly unlikely that a PPrUner has worked on it , then?
You think it's highly unlikely that a PPruner will know somebody who worked on the repair and wheedle some info?

IT ISN'T A STATE SECRET....Maybe a confidential industrial one, but as with virtually all industrial secrets, it will eventually out.
Also, some of those involved are likely to set up their own Composite repair business in this niche market where they'd be able to virtually name their own price.
let's sit and wait....who knows, Boeing may, just may want to trumpet their success!

I personally think that it is very unlikely that a PPruner would tell us something that simultaneously 1. would be 100% accurate and 2. not available at the same time from other sources.

and 3. extremely career limiting !!!!
quick RDC inspection and QCR and on to main base !!!!!
and yes i am jesting .

Flight International saying the aircraft will fly around 22 December and was repaired using ` a composite section bolted to the airframe`. This information coming from the CE of the operator....

I really hope "bolted" can mean something like "carefully glued together" or I will really question the validity of that source... LOL!

It would be a sad sad moment if composites were "bolted" in the meaning I am used to hear the word... again, the reservation for being non-native English speaker.

But a nice piece of gossip, I acknowledge that!

It will be very interesting to see where it flies to, whether it be a Boeing plant to have a 'temporary fix made good' or it would be back into service...

ET-AOP off to Manston. Departed LHR 10:35 ish

May well be headed to Manston, but it left LHR went up over East Anglia, headed north up the morth sea climbing to FL390 before turning south - presumably to Manston.

I had a feeling it would be off today, before the stated date! Are there service/inspection facilities at Manston to see how all is shaping up before returning home?

Once arrived at Manston, expected to leave again at 14-15:00.

Has the cabin interior been fixed? Would expect that to be done somewhere other that LHR, Cardiff ?

On FR24 as BOE787, currently heading NW

Looks like a test flight ?

It looks like it is doing some manoeuvres over the North Sea at FL150...


BOE787 live flight tracking - Plane Finder

That would be my guess! Circling at various altitudes to keep an eye on pressure and electrical functions, then perhaps re-fuelling at Manston, then possibly home or to Boeing. Ethiopean will be VERY pleased to get it back into service and return the leased "wrong airport" 767!

Also notice that they are squalking 6060, which is a Malmo code... but could be pronounced 'Sick Oh Sick Oh'.


Looks like they have just done a minimum radius turn at constant height...
Can't wait to see if Wing-Overs and Hammer-Heads are in their repertoire...

Seems to be heading to Manston now. Is it my imagination or does their flight path from top left to bottom right read "AOK" ?!

Anyone seeing what they are doing now over Norwich? It seems they are hovering at altitude... strange...

Missed that, but now appears to be heading back to Heathrow. Just flew over, too much Yuletide murkiness to see it, but heard it, making an unusual blaring sound, odd.

I'd love for someone to meet it at gateway (or whatever) with a camera to take pics of the repair!