Boeing: Margin for error 'gone' in 787 flight test program

Boeing Chairman, President and CEO Jim McNerney conceded that the manufacturer is experiencing "growing pains" in its global 787 production process and said flight testing will have to "go by the books" in order for first delivery to be made on time to ANA in May 2008. Boeing last week pushed back the 787's first flight by at least two months and said it will attempt to complete flight testing and certification in fewer than six months, which would be more than five months less than the ...