"There are issues we have seen that we will need to work through and just like any new airplane program we work through those issues and we move on, " said Mike Sinnett, Boeing vice president and chief project engineer for the 787, during a conference call with reporters on Wednesday.

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Barton Bull, chief engineer at NASA's Wallops Research Range, worked on the project.

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