A section of the Dreamliner undergoes wind tunnel tests, which proved unable to predict the forces experienced by a real plane during flight (Image: shearforce / Margaret S / Flickr (link to http://www.flickr.com/people/shearforce/)
THE midst of the deepest recession the aviation industry has ever seen is not the best time to discover that your revolutionary aircraft design has yet another serious structural weakness. But that’s the predicament found itself in last week.
The company hopes its will be the first with a pressurised fuselage made from lightweight, fuel-saving carbon-fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) materials, rather…
