Boeing delays Dreamliner for fifth time

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WASHINGTON (AFP) — Boeing said Tuesday it would delay the first flight and delivery of its new 787 Dreamliner aircraft, the latest postponement in a program seen as a key to the aerospace giant's future.

Boeing said a new schedule for the first flight and delivery would be available in "several weeks" and that in the interim the 787 team will continue with other aspects of testing.

Boeing said in a statement the delay was "due to a need to reinforce an area within the side-of-body section of the aircraft."

It added that the need "was identified during the recent regularly scheduled tests on the full-scale static test airplane."

Scott Carson, president and chief executive of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, said the postponement was the correct...