Originally Posted by
whitesco
...did do some work for one of the subcontractors that builds them and the number of design and build process changes along with materials shortages and subsititions on about the first 18 or 19 line units make me glad they are mostly headed for places I won't be flying anytime soon.
You know they've arrested the supply chain yet again this week TFN because the horizontal stabilizers built in Italy by Alenia are all screwed up -- each has to be custom-shimmed. Mobs of Boeing people onsite doing hand-holding and cursing the real cost of outsourcing.
More here:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm..._boeing26.html