Aircraft
Tinseth: Dreamliner Mods Underway
Boeing has begun installing the reinforcements for the side-of-body modifications

Boeing has begun installing the reinforcements for the
side-of-body modifications to the first 787 Dreamliner test airplane and on the static airframe, Boeing Commercial Airplanes vice president of marketing Randy Tinseth revealed in his blog entry yesterday. Specifically, engineers have begun mounting new fittings at stringer attachment locations within the joint where the wing attaches to the fuselage.

Work, he said, will get under way on additional flight test airplanes “in the coming days.”