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Boeing 747/8 Freighter aircraft delivery slips into mid-year 2011

Washington, USA - Moreover, a 5th airplane will be added to the flight-test fleet

On a press release unveiled yesterday, Thursday 30 September 2010, Boeing announced that 747/8 Freighter airplane's first delivery is going to move into mid-year 2011. As the company previously indicated, the new schedule depends on some problems discovered during the flight-tests: a low-frequency vibration in certain flight conditions. The issues in point, anyway, wouldn't require structural changes...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1121321
Rome, Italy, 10/01/2010 18:15
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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