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Boeing has confirmed it will deliver the first 787 Dreamliner in November or December 2008, following a maiden flight early in the year. The announcement comes a couple of months after the company knocked backed the 787 schedule by six months due to production difficulties. It had previously said it would deliver the first …

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  1. amanfromMars Silver badge
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    Wet Dreamliner?

    It looks very ordinary/retro...... which is a strange strategy. I wish them luck in the endeavour.

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  2. Chris Beckett
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    Scott Carson?

    Hope he's better at building planes than keeping goal for England....

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  3. Slaine
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    Scott Carson?

    ... that'll be Frank's brother.

    harr harr - itsdaway I tellem

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  4. Senor Beavis
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    "knocked backed"

    Which monkey school of spelling did you go to?

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  5. James Condron

    re: Knocked-Backed

    Knocked-Backed.... so what would you call it?

    To me, knocked-backed is the past tense* to knocked-back

    * Do I mean past-tense?

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  6. MD Rackham

    Knocked Backed?

    I supposed if they were going to deliver early you'd say they "moved forwarded" the schedule, right?

    I thought not.

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  7. heystoopid
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    Ah

    Ah brings back memories of all those plastic aeroplanes as they were always hard to assemble out of the box and required much modifications to fit the parts together as one !

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  8. Brian
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    Hence, the name "Dreamliner".....

    The original deadline was a dream .

    'Course, if it was an Airbus....it would have taken 6 months just to determine when to announce the first production delay.

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