You're grounded

摘要

Call me a cynic if you will, but when I heard that Boeing's 787 Dreamliner had been grounded worldwide after a mere 15 months in service, my first thought was: "well, that happened sooner than I expected". Having followed the plane's tortured development and path to airworthiness certification for New Scien tist for more than a decade, it was clearly only a matter of time before something went wrong. The reason is simple: the Dreamliner probably incorporates the broadest collection of untested aviation technologies since the Wright Flyer lifted off the beach at Kitty Hawk in 1903.