And from the dimensions of the 787 fuselage he can work out with basic mathematics the strain on the skin caused by closing any given gap. He applied this to the data from measurements of the 787 ...

The errors threatened the component’s structural integrity, briefly halting 787 test flights in 2010. The year before, Boeing discovered that the skin of Alenia’s composite fuselage segments ...

The company would not comment on the specifics of damage and repairs to the Ethiopian 787 ... the fire-damaged fuselage is not as simple as cutting away the damaged skin section and fashioning ...

Since the discovery of the issue during a pre-delivery 787 inspection in 2020, mechanics at Boeing have been in a long slog ...

Rosini has pale skin and white-gray hair ... Besides fabricating fuselage barrels for the 787, Alenia is tasked with designing and manufacturing the horizontal stabilizer, and also performs ...