FAA ISSUES WARNING …
|| By FITSNEWS || Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials have uncovered yet another problem with Boeing’s much-maligned 787 “Dreamliner” aircraft – although this one appears to be far less serious than the battery drama which grounded the planes two years ago.
According to the FAA, a 787 “that has been powered continuously for 248 days can lose all alternating current electrical power due to the generator control units simultaneously going into failsafe mode.”
Assuming such a power loss occurred mid-flight, pilots would obviously lose control of the aircraft. Fortunately Boeing is aware of the issue and is powering the jets on and off to avoid the problem – while at the same time developing a software solution for the fleet.
The Dreamliner program – which includes a heavily subsidized South Carolina manufacturing facility – has endured countless delays, mechanical problems and production issues.
Thankfully, this one doesn’t seem all that serious … or at least not with the company taking precautions.
Wait, “thankfully?” Doesn’t this website detest Boeing?
Nah … we detest crony capitalism. Boeing is just taking what the politicians are giving them. It’s the politicians handing over our money – especially the hypocrites – whom we detest.
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Hundreds of thousands of parts on any new model jetliner … there are bound to be many peculiarities … and Boeing engineers will find them all and fix them all.
The surprising thing is that this article is news worthy or even published.
Good story!
Golly you really don’t like Boeing do you?
Yeah, that’s what I don’t get. Hundreds of some of the highest paying jobs in the state (except for politicians) and FITs seems determined to screw that up.
BINGO!
Hundreds of some of the highest paying jobs in the state? Yeah, sure… You’ll find people making much more at MUSC or at the port. The only people making the kind of money you’re talking about at Boeing S.C. are in management, and I doubt there are hundreds of them.
Ooops! I scrolled over the photo too fast, thinking it was an ad for a hemorrhoid treatment…
Judging by the time it is a signed int overflow that should of been caught in software unit testing. Anyways it is a small issue because the planes are never on that long and even if they were there are procedures in place if there is a power outage on plane.
Reading more into it there are 4 of these things on the plane and they would have all had to be started at the same time (probably give or take a few seconds for fail over) and run continuously for 248 days for the bug to happen. FAA fix is pretty much “have you rebooted the plane yet”?
Such a non story.
Market isn’t closed yet but up 0.95% on this news.
http://money.cnn.com/data/dow30/
I also heard that the seats are still too small for Grand Tango…even though he’s laughed about half of it off…
Hmmm, factually correct, no hype, very little Boeing is the worst thing ever. Okay, what have you people done with Will?
Has anyone actually left a 787 running for 248 days? Is there a use case where this would happen? I can’t think of one.
“Assuming such a power loss occurred mid-flight, pilots would obviously lose control of the aircraft.”
AC electricity is ESSENTIAL in controlling an aircraft? How so? 767s, for example, have an emergency wind-powered turbine to maintain hydraulic pressure for flight control if all engines fail.
“Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials have uncovered yet another problem with Boeing’s much-maligned 787 “Dreamliner” aircraft”
Actually Boeing reported it to the FAA of what they found in laboratory testing. So Boeing asked the FAA to issue a directive to make sure that 787 operators are shutting down their airplanes every 4 months.