“Less than half of flying is for certification. It’s for our own information purposes. Four planes flying by early 2008.”
Is the electronic tracking systems broken?
“No. All the digital tools have done what we’ve expected them to. The airplane goes together perfectly. We didn’t digitally simulate missing thousands of fasteners.”
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