Boeing 747-8 Back on Track, Could Fly before 787
Since Boeing 747-8 vice president and general manager Mohammad “Mo” Yahyavi assumed leadership of the program in February, the former head of the 737 P-8A

Since Boeing 747-8 vice president and general manager Mohammad “Mo” Yahyavi assumed leadership of the program in February, the former head of the 737 P-8A Poseidon team has overseen a quiet transformation from an organization in a near state of disarray to one that Boeing Commercial Airplanes suddenly appears keen to promote as a model of efficiency. If, in fact, the 747-8 team manages to fly three airplanes by the end of the year, as Yahyavi told AIN he expects it to do, it has placed itself on a schedule track few would have predicted only four or five months ago.

“Our goal and target was, as a team, to get the fourth airplane back on track,” he said. “And as a matter of fact that happened. Everybody signed up to that, so there was a lot of personal commitment and engagement and focus to get the program back on master schedule from the fourth airplane on…”