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Special Conditions: Boeing Model 787-8 Airplane; Interaction of Systems and \nStructures, Electronic Flight Control System-Control Surface Awareness, High \nIntensity Radiated Fields (HIRF) Protection, Limit Engine Torque Loads for \nSudden Engine Stoppage, and Design Roll Maneuver Requirement

Special conditions are rules the FAA writes for one design when the standard certification rules do not cover something new about it. These were published July 29, 2007 for Boeing. System: engine.

What it applies to

Applicant
Boeing
Makes
Boeing
Models
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Published
July 29, 2007
Effective
August 28, 2007
The FAA's document
On the FAA's site

The FAA's summary their words, unchanged

These special conditions are issued for the Boeing Model 787-8 airplane. This airplane will have novel or unusual design features when compared to the state of technology envisioned in the airworthiness standards for transport category airplanes. These design features include electronic flight control systems and high bypass engines. These special conditions also pertain to the effects of such novel or unusual design features, such as effects on the structural performance of the airplane. Finally, these special conditions pertain to effects of certain conditions on these novel or unusual design features, such as the effects of high intensity radiated fields (HIRF). The applicable airworthiness regulations do not contain adequate or appropriate safety standards for these design features. These special conditions contain the additional safety standards that the Administrator considers necessary to establish a level of safety equivalent to that established by the existing standards. Additional special conditions will be issued for other novel or unusual design features of the Boeing Model 787-8 airplanes.

Source: FAA special conditions (final) from the Dynamic Regulatory System; the Federal Register carries the same notices.