Boeing looked for flaws in its Dreamliner and couldn’t stop finding them
> In 2019, they detected gaps between sections of the Dreamliner’s fuselage that were slightly wider than specified in the FAA-approved designs. The gaps, about the width of a piece of paper, were wider than the manufacturing tolerance of 0.005 of an inch allowed under the approved design.I feel like the article is really grasping at straws here, and I'd be willing to bet the author doesn't even comprehend how small this is. 0.005" is small. For the hardware-challenged: 0.005" is a typical manufacturing tolerance for a standard-spec PCB. Some of the Chinese board-houses that deal in high volume are higher than that[1]. The fact that they even found a gap this size on something the size of an airplane is amazing to me.[1] https://www.pcbway.com/pcb_prototype/PCB_Manufacturing_toler...