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September 18th, 2007, 14:05
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Tarzana, CA (KVNY)
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 |  Fired engineer calls 787's plastic fuselage unsafe You think this is a disgruntled employee or does he have some validity to his claims? I tried to google crash tests involving composite materials but didn't really find anything. To me it sounds more like the guy is just a disgruntled ex employee. And this part really takes away from his credibility "Weldon was fired for threatening a supervisor, specifically for stating he wanted to hang the African-American executive "on a meat hook" and that he "wouldn't mind" seeing a noose around the executive's neck." http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...boeing180.html |
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September 18th, 2007, 14:20
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| Old Skool Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: _
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| Re: Fired engineer calls 787's plastic fuselage unsafe Calling an ex-employers product unsafe is about to get REALLLLLLLLY expensive for this guy.
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September 18th, 2007, 15:24
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: KMKE
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| Re: Fired engineer calls 787's plastic fuselage unsafe More disgruntled than anything. You'll hear that there's still some to be learned about composites, but really it's not unsafe in itself. Two big things about composites are how they will react to 10's of thousands of cycles with the percentage increase of use on airliners and the knowledge of those maintaining and repairing. Also, composites have some mighty nasty chemicals that aren't nice when they burn.
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September 18th, 2007, 17:04
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| Re: Fired engineer calls 787's plastic fuselage unsafe Definitely disgruntled... I could be wrong, but look at the track record Boeing has with the 7X7 line of aircraft. Seems to me the safe bet is to trust Boeing. Furthermore, he was fired in July 2006. Why is he waiting until now (14 months later) to express his concerns to the media. The only thing I can think of is that is for the most part "on schedule" and he would like nothing more than to screw over his former employer while enjoying his own 15 seconds of fame. |
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September 18th, 2007, 17:13
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  | Re: Fired engineer calls 787's plastic fuselage unsafe There's only one way to find out - crash test that thing and see how it goes. 
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September 18th, 2007, 17:41
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| Re: Fired engineer calls 787's plastic fuselage unsafe Composites have been flying for years in the military with good results.
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