The latest is failures of a “thrust link”. Thankfully, it appears to be a new part unique to the 777-9 and not implicating the existing fleet:
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Arguably, this is good news – maybe evidence that Boeing is finally beginning to struggle out of its DIE-induced disasters.
The team developing a new prototype airplane actually checked for cracks. Great! That is what they should be doing, and the discovery of the cracks allows modifications to the design & manufacturing to avoid the problem in later production models.
Note that structural cracks on the British “Comet” airplane – the world’s first commercial jet – resulted in deaths of passengers and the effective end of the British commercial aviation industry. It is good that today’s manufacturers have learned the lesson of carefully examining structural integrity.
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Mentour Pilot:
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IIRC, they were building the static test article when I had a factory tour just over 8 years ago.
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