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Originally Posted by FastDEW
I completely disagree. The issue is outsourcing. I am a trained engineer and the composites are not the main issue. It is the outsourcing. I have many friends at Boeing in Wichita and Seattle and they all know what the issues are and so do the top brass. They are working to correct them.
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Really? The most complex part of the B787 that wasn't made in Seattle came from England. It was delivered on time and on budget. It also made sfc target. It's called the Rolls Royce Trent 1000 and, unlike the 787, it was ready to fly a very, very long time ago.
Boeing normally uses in excess of 15,000 vendors (as does Airbus). All of a sudden, Boeing want to shift blame out of Seattle to their vendors? This is Boeing's mess! I'm familiar with many of Boeing's vendors. Feel free to correct me and tell me which ones are holding up the Dreamliner. Are you trying to tell me Boeing doesn't know how to manage outsourcing and Foreign Direct Investment?
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Originally Posted by FastDEW
On the A380 - How do you expect the 380 to be a money maker if no other operators select it? Please explain. Even Airbus is starting to say that the break even is north of 500 frames. The order book isn't even half that amount.
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I don't expect anything. This claim is based on causal model forecasts and comes from Airbus and their current customers. Of course, the fact that approx 2000 new freighters are expected over the next 18 years looks pretty good for the A380 too.
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