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Conner, Photo courtesy Boeing |
Last year when he was given the job of piloting Boeing's Commercial Airplane division into the next generation of aviation, Ray Conner
told reporters he was "really excited" - and why not? The company was selling airplanes like hot cakes matching its dreamy aspirations with real Dreamliner-building capacity at the company's
second assembly plant in South Carolina.
Those happy comments at the
Farnborough Air Show in 2012 must seem like a distant memory now as Conner maneuvers through the turbulence created by a
questionable battery design, assembly lapses and technology glitches. Unhappy customers are issuing error messages about the airplane the company calls "game changing."