OT - Being 787 issues, does this mean carbon composite has issues?

Pete Lancashire pete-6NP59FE1ho9MFQD/ygXjfdBPR1lH4CV8 at public.gmane.org
Mon Aug 3 17:39:50 UTC 2009


I also agree. To the point where Boeing has had to buy out
some subcontractors. Not something they like to talk about.

The last number I remember is 70% of the 787 is sub'ed out.

Wikipedia has a pretty good break down

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787

-pete



> Pete Lancashire wrote:
>> Large dynamic CC assembles are still very hard to work with, and
>> don't behave well.
>>
>> The general feeling around some of my friends in Seattle is Boeing
>> did not do what Boeing would have done in the past, extensive
>> testing vs today relying on CAE.
>>
> It's also my belief that the underlying politics of the manufacture --
> that call for major component plants and jobs scattered all over the
> world -- has made the process of completing the final assembly to be
> orders of magnitude more difficult than if more of the work was done in
> Washington State. It's my understanding that much of the wings and
> forward part of the 787 are made and shipped over from Japan, the back
> stabilizer comes from Italy, and other major parts (that require
> absolute precision fits) come from elsewhere.
>
> Airbus has had the same problems -- one plant was using a different
> version of the design software than another, then they lost many months
> recovering from the differences found when matching up the resulting
> assemblies.
>
> IMO, until proven otherwise, this is a supply chain fsckup at least as
> much as anything attributable to the composition of the materials.
>
> - Evan
>
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