A permanent fix using thicker shear ties will be incorporated from Dreamliner ... issue,” one that could develop over time as a plane is repeatedly subjected to cold air at high altitude and ...

Shear walls are walls specifically designed ... Sheathing also functions as a base for an uninterrupted drainage plane, as a code-approved air barrier material, a continuous nail base for cladding, ...

Those shear ties are small aluminum pieces used to fasten ... “No airline would accept a plane with such a manufacturing defect.” Two years ago, rival plane-maker Airbus discovered small ...

Deliveries of some 787s may be delayed several weeks as the aircraft maker fixes the flaw ... occurred on internal "shear ties" that attach aluminum ribs to the carbon-fiber wing skin, said ...

A programme source adds that radius fillers will be employed alongside some existing shear ties. While a fix has been designed, reaching the area on a fully assembled aircraft is not easy ...

Boeing says roughly 40 airplanes might be affected and that it will take one to two weeks to fix the cracks found on shear ties on a wing ... issues involved the plane's batteries.