More than four weeks after the 11th-hour cancellation of the maiden flight of the 787, Boeing's leaders are not providing basic details about how the problem of a failed wing test will be corrected and when the new jet will fly.rnIn its past 787 program slips-there have been six of them-Boeing has been unable to keep to schedules that gave it as much as six more months of breathing room each time. Following that scenario, the company's assurances that a new schedule will be set by the end of September will make it difficult for first flight before 2010. Some skeptics in the investment community believe the first-flight delay could be as long as one year.
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