{"id":3008,"date":"2013-07-26T23:45:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T23:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2013-07-26T23:45:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T23:45:01","slug":"dreamliner-in-trouble-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3008","title":{"rendered":"Dreamliner in trouble \u2026 again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I\u2019m beginning to feel like one of the few, the proud who\u2019ve gotten to fly on Boeing\u2019s 787 Dreamliner \u2013 before it gets grounded for keeps.<\/p>\n<p>Another Dreamliner experienced problems today, this time at London Heathrow Airport. The Ethiopian Airlines jetliner caught fire, forcing the airport to close for an hour.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/video\/in-the-news\/310719-boeing-dreamliner-airplane-catches-fire-in-london\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/video\/in-the-news\/310719-boeing-dreamliner-airplane-catches-fire-in-london\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/video\/in-the-news\/310719-boeing-dreamliner-airplane-catches-fire-in-london<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My own history \u2013 brief as it is \u2013 with the Dreamliner is kind of interesting. I was flying to Portland from Amarillo in June, via Houston\u2019s George Bush Intercontinental Airport. Weather \u2013 along with some human error \u2013 forced me to spend the night in Houston. I woke up the next morning and boarded a Dreamliner for a flight to Denver \u2013 but the plane wouldn\u2019t start. We all got off the plane and boarded another Dreamliner and made the trip to Denver.<\/p>\n<p>I must say the Dreamliner is a nice bird on which to fly. It has all kinds of leg room even for those of us in the cheap seats, which are a bit wider than they are on other aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>But it keeps having all these issues. Electrical problems grounded the fleet worldwide for months. They keep catching fire. The plane cannot seem to operate safely over an extended period of time.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this doesn\u2019t doom the aircraft. It\u2019s supposed to be the latest and greatest air travel innovation since, well, perhaps the 747 Jumbo Jet. <\/p>\n<p>As it stands at the moment, I\u2019m feeling somewhat privileged to say I\u2019ve flown on one of these birds \u2013 and actually enjoyed the ride.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m beginning to feel like one of the few, the proud who\u2019ve gotten to fly on Boeing\u2019s 787 Dreamliner \u2013 before it gets grounded for keeps. Another Dreamliner experienced problems today, this time at London Heathrow Airport. The Ethiopian Airlines jetliner caught fire, forcing the airport to close for an hour. http:\/\/thehill.com\/video\/in-the-news\/310719-boeing-dreamliner-airplane-catches-fire-in-london My own history &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3008\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dreamliner in trouble \u2026 again<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1455,1887,2093],"class_list":["post-3008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dreamliner","tag-george-bush-intercontinental-airport","tag-heathrow-airport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}