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Old Mar 8, 2014, 8:40 am
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1) Will be interesting to see if this really is just contained to planes still on the line.

2) The wings are outsourced. Wonder if there will be further attention to this theme.

3) Boeing recently committed to use the composite wings on the 777. Implications?
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Old Mar 8, 2014, 4:30 pm
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Honestly, the entire manufacturing process has been outsourced to the xth degree than I wouldn't be surprised there will be some catastrophic incident in the future.
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Old Mar 9, 2014, 11:22 pm
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Also leaves the problem of composite skin de-lamination, discussed sometime back and can still be a problem in the future.
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