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Posted on 06/27/2006 9:15:38 AM PDT by skeptoid
NAGOYA, Japan -- For Boeing's Everett engineers working on the company's first all-new commercial jetliner in more than a decade, the dream begins here.s
In this Japanese industrial city far from The Boeing Co.'s Puget Sound roots, in a factory built just for the 787 Dreamliner, Fuji Heavy Industries has completed the first large composite section that will go on the first 787 to fly next year.
Measuring 17.4 feet long by 19 feet wide, the composite structure is the lower skin of the center wing box, a critical section of the jet where the 787 wings will be attached. The wing box also serves as the center fuel tank.
Piece by monstrous piece, Boeing and its partners are building an airplane in an entirely new way that circles the globe.
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Notice: They're building it in Japan.
More American manufacturing jobs lost.
The 787's are being built in the U.S.
Some of the components are being built abroad.
Would you rather have a plane that was too expensive for anybody to buy, resulting in absolutely no jobs?
--Would you rather have a plane that was too expensive for anybody to buy, resulting in absolutely no jobs?--
No kidding. How could anyone think that Boeing is bad for the country.
They're building parts of it in Japan. Which translates into more sales of the aircraft to Japanese carriers. Which means more airplanes to build, thus more jobs here at home.
The parts built there were determined by competitive bid. No American company had the expertise to compete with FHI in that arena. It certainly wasn't low worker salaries that won the bid.
Additionally, Boeing added engineering and production positions to ramp up for the assembly of this aircraft, here at home. Those jobs pay more and are higher skilled than what was subcontracted to overseas partners.
Vapid comment. Learn something about manufacturing and then come back and post.
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Buy American, if you can find something American. Here is a can of Fred Meyer Refried Beans. The company listed on the label is Inter-American Products, Inc. Can't get much more American.
Whatever hogwash that statement is in the long run, it still doesn't cover the fact that....
...the BRAINtrust, the DESIGN, is based in America. I'll take brain-power jobs over manual jobs any day. It means we have the ability to *truly* sustain ourselves, as long as we have the brains and the freedom to use them.
The original building where the famous Japanese Zero fighter plane of WW II was designed is visible from Mitsubishi's 787 wing composite plant in Nagoya, Japan. The fighter was produced in an area of the new plant where Mitsubishi will manufacture the composite wings of the 787. (June 27, 2006) James Wallace/Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Maybe someday we'll see IED factories in Iraq turned into TV manufacturing plants!
Like tax rates, sometimes jobs are a case of less is more.
...and my company here in Wichita does work for Fuji, Kawasaki, and Mitsubishi!!!
...more American jobs found!
True and sad. The thing to remember is that the free market exists among humans whether individual governments and unions and grousers try to suppress it or not. If you try to push back on it here, it will expand somewhere else. How do people like XR7 not 'get' this?
How many people bitch about Intel's (and AMD's -complete- dominance of the PC business? Shipping chips from Oregon and Austin should make them happy. However, it only happens that Intel CPU's make up 80% of the value of a PC because they standardized the PC business to let the razor thin margin sections move to Asia (taiwan/china ODM's).
Imagine mandating that Dell only use US manufacturing to build PCs. End of the road for US PC technology.
That would be fantastic. And we probably won't have to nuke 'em like we did Japan.
Bad joke......but I see similarities.
For better or worse, building commercial aircraft from the size of a 737 and larger has become a world wide duopoly. There really is only room for two manufacturers. If Boeing only had domestic US content in its planes, they would be ceding much of the international market for their aircraft to Airbus, because Airbus would make sure parts from countries of potential customers would be in their planes. Boeing is using Russian engineers to develop the 747-400LCF freighter that will be used to transport components built by various suppliers to Boeing's factory near Seattle. Boeing is also buying lots of Russian titanium that will be used for the rings that hold the sections of composite fuselage together.
Yeah - I've always wondered why the folks at Mitsubishi weren't smart enough to name their products something else.
Otherwise, no Japanese sales. Plus, we are helping the Japanese redevelop their defense industries.
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