No Longer a Dream?

Here we are talking of one of the most incredible engineering achievement, designing and building commercial aircraft using state of the art materials and technologies. Glitches can strike at project of this magnitude with no warning. It is the ability to recover successfully from the failure differentiates the leader from the followers. Boeing appears to be coming back from a serious set back during the testing of composite structure of 787, bruised but stronger and proceeding with accelerated flight testings. It looks like 787 is a legendry civil airliner in the making.

One of the biggest problems with a construction of this size is that any and all set-backs are obvious to the public. With smaller items, all preparation & testing can be done behind closed doors, and the public only get to see the finished product, not all the redesign & glitches that are inevitable in any undertaking.