Thread: Is the 787 a failure ?
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Old February 3rd 13, 11:10 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.crafts.metalworking,rec.aviation.military,talk.politics.misc,alt.society.labor-unions
Mark Thorson
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Default Is the 787 a failure ?
Gunner wrote:

Im trying to remember which prop job in the 1950s kept going
down...British aircraft IRRC....which had the tails snapping
off...some sort of metal fatigue/harmonics issue which took them
awhile to find and correct. They did a movie about it in the 1960s
IRRC

The movie was filmed in 1951.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_highway_in_the_sky