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Don Arnold/Getty Images Sir Richard Branson and a rebranded Airbus A330 at Sydney Airport Wednesday Boeing said last month that the first of the 835 Dreamliner aircraft ordered by 56 customers is slated to enter service in the third quarter, after delays caused by design, production and flight-testing problems.

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Mr. McNerney also said Boeing is "increasingly comfortable we have the fixes in hand" to resolve aerodynamic problems that have occurred during flight-testing of the 747-8.

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By then, Navair had begun its redesign of the Osprey and was preparing to start the flight-testing Aldridge had approved.

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The Marines, though, “desperately wanted the airplane,” Aldridge said, and the only fair and logical way to decide whether they should have it was to fix it and then put it through the rigorous flight-testing that should have been done in the first place.

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There had been far too little flight-testing before Marines were allowed to ride in the back, and despite the billions spent, the Osprey had been “funded on a shoestring,” Augustine said, creating parts shortages that helped explain its poor maintenance and reliability record.

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The companies were flight-testing the prototypes, too, though money for that was short and they were way behind schedule.

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Three years later, the Defense Acquisition Board, a top-level Pentagon committee, approved putting the Osprey into limited production, though flight-testing was still in its early stages.

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A., were flight-testing a nine-passenger civilian tiltrotor roughly the size of the XV-15 called the BA609.

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In July 1985, the companies told Navair they could build six prototypes for flight-testing and four for ground tests for a minimum price of $1.6 billion and a maximum $1.8 billion.

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Ken Lunn, the head of Osprey flight-testing for Boeing, met him there.

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