Larry Dighera writes:

While it is evident that Mr. Vincent A. Weldon is qualified to issue
his concerns in his comment on this issue, I fail to see how the
carbon-fiber composite construction of the Boeing 787-8 is
significantly different from that used in many military aircraft.

It's not ... but military aircraft and personnel are considered much more
expendable than civilian aircraft and personnel, so the threshold of
acceptable risk is much higher. Hmm.

He raises some points about Boeing's cost cutting to reduce assembly time
and weight, but those should be easily addressed.

My major concern about the 787 is that so little of it is actually produced by
Boeing, and is actually farmed out to all sorts of foreign contractors of
questionable reliability, either to increase profit margins or for political
reasons.