Lightly Used Boeing 787 Heads to Scrapyard

So sad. I have lived most of my life near the Boeing facilities in western Washington. I used to look up to Boeing company with pride. It just makes me sick what the current management has done to destroy this once great company. I guess I am sort of surprised that the stock holders are tolerating this.

At least two were scrapped last year as well. Its a sign of the value of parts removed from those aircraft exceeding the market value....

Ditto A380.

What other industry is forced to scrap little-used, like-new machinery?

I enjoy reading the comments on flight aware. Not to be preachy…. I like to follow three mottos in on-line forums. If it’s illegal, report it. If it’s offensive, ignore it. If I want to comment, be respectful. It seems to work for me. Although I seldom comment, am hardly ever offended, and haven’t seen anything illegal yet. Have at me.

I initially thought that a composite 787 Dreamliner was a bad idea. Has it been tested and proven under thousands of hours of flight time? Is composite likely to deteriorate? Northwest had envisioned to replace the 747-200s with the 787s(pre-Delta) freighters.[ Instead, Ed talked Richard into eliminating the Cargo freighters altogether.] The jury is still out whether the Dreamliner was a good idea or not.

Wonder what they do with the composite structure. At least with Al it was easily recyclable.

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Nothing new. Same thing happens at Airbus. When F9 returned A318s, they were scrapped. A380s were also.

Gentlemen and Ladies, as pilots and former pilots like myself (Marine and GA), and citizen commentators who love aviation, let’s not argue to compromise our perspectives. Let us argue to further the achievements of safe flight. My great uncle invented Varney/Continental/United, and we have further Captain pilots in our family, and constructive conversation is better than squabbling. Let our words create actions to kick the manufacturers in their oversold balls to recreate the excellent industry that made you and me famous! God bless you! My name is Brian Varney, Aurora-Denver, Colorado.

Yay. Made it all the way through 8 comments before it all came undone. Not a bad day here at - where are we? - oh yeah, Flight Aware. Your favorite aviation-oriented site....