Originally Posted by
Mink
While you may be right about the "mechanics" of the delay problem, the blame, IMHO, still rests with Boeing. For something this important, they should have done their homework a little more thoroughly regarding the capabilities of their suppliers.
At this rate, 787 will be out on the street about the same time as A350EX (or whatever it's called).
No doubt. I completely agree. The gist of what I was trying to get across is rather than doing the work in house with their experienced engineers, they went with "risk sharing partners" who had little to no experience doing what they promised. Boeing has laid off many junior engineers while retaining engineers who are close to retirement and many if not most won't be around for another plane. The problem is that Boeing is losing all of the people who had the knowledge and experience to resolve these problems. This is systemic of the larger decline of our manufacturing and engineering talent pool.