The Software Side of Flight-Testing Boeing’s New Planes
May 7th, 2010 admin
With nearly 600 hours of testing completed on the new 787 Dreamliner and more than 200 hours on the new 747-8, Boeing is in the thick of a very busy year of flight testing. Delays in both programs have put both the new composite airliner and the company’s biggest airplane ever behind schedule, so Boeing is working very hard to make sure there are no further problems with the billions being invested in the two programs. Thus, during a test on an aircraft last month when there was a simple communication problem between two critical data …
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