What problems were there with the 787? IIRC it was the first major composite airliner and they had the advantage of hoovering up all the unemployed post Berlin

What problems were there with the 787? IIRC it was the first major composite airliner and they had the advantage of hoovering up all the unemployed post Berlin Wall cream of the crop Soviet aerodynamicists to work on it for them. https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/26/business/boeing-s-russian-edge.html https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/26/business/boeing-s-russian...