No, not really.

I’d much rather Boeing get it right, rather than get it rushed.

(That’s my new aircraft manufacturer mantra. Hear me Bombardier, Boeing, Airbus and Embraer? Actually we already know Airbus hears me, don’t we?)

And I quote from my Speednews email:

“Boeing has announced a 6-month delay in its planned initial deliveries of the 787 due to continued challenges completing assembly of the first airplanes.

Deliveries are now slated to begin in late November or December 2008 vs original schedule of May 2008. First flight is now anticipated around the end of first quarter

2008.”

What does bother me about this is that it was just September 5 that Scott Carson, CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, told us all that the airplane’s first flight had been delayed, but that “the 787 remains on track to be delivered to its first customer, ANA, next May.”

Yeah. Right. Okay Scott.

We didn’t believe you then, and well, anyone now taking bets on the “fall of 2008” date? Or is this more “wishful thinking”? In the meantime, anyone got a new measurement on the length of Scott’s nose these days?

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