On Oct 11, 4:41 pm, Larry Dighera wrote:
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:27:37 -0700, wrote in
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On Oct 11, 2:23 pm, Larry Dighera wrote:
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:43:43 -0700, wrote in
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None... the whistle blower has nothing to do with it. The delays are
all due to systems integration problems...

What is your source for that information?

Friends (former co-workers) who work on the 787 program at Boeing. I
have known that this was coming for about a year now, so I wasn't at
all surprised by the announcement.

What do you know about Weldon? His comment to the FAA sounds like he
was unhappy with the lack of regard Boeing showed his engineering
analysis, and when he retired, he sold his name and knowledge to Alcoa
marketing. After all, if Boeing re-defines the jetliner as being of
composite construction, aluminum foundries stand to lose a substantial
portion of their market. Is his comment genuine or just underhanded
aluminum industry propaganda?

I don't know anything about Weldon. He worked in a completely
different part of the company (military) than I did (commercial), and
in a different discipline.

Personally, I think that it sounds like he has an axe to grind, and
that he has a different opinion than other experienced engineers at
Boeing. There are too many good engineers there for a bunch of them
to go along with a party line if they felt there was a legitimate
saftey issue.

Dean