Posted on 03/15/2007 12:00:37 AM PDT by skeptoid
The Boeing Co. marked the completion Wednesday of the first of what it hopes will be thousands of composite tail fins for its hot-selling 787 Dreamliner.
The 33-foot-long tail fin is the largest structural piece of the 787 that Boeing is manufacturing. Its partners around the world are making the rest. .....snip...
Making composite parts for Boeing jets is nothing new for Boeing's Composites Manufacturing Center. Workers here have been responsible for the composite tail fin and horizontal stabilizer of the 777 for about 13 years. Late last year, the unit delivered the 600th 777 composite empennage.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.nwsource.com ...
Cool
...Nancy Pelosi's new plane?
If we can build the tailfin here then we should build the whole damn plane and not depend on Japan, Italy & China for other components.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002465971_boeingchina02.html
Hope they can secure it better than Airbus's composite tail fin!
Got somethin' agin composites?
Where is the Jaws music?
Do you think Boeing wants to sell planes to airlines in Japan, Italy and China?
Of course they do, but we shouldn't be held hostage and have to let them build our airplane parts. Americans need jobs more than Chinese do.
Globalist ass-kissing is all it is.
why should we do that if other people can do it more efficiently? That sort of protectionism drives up prices and would make boeing uncompetitive, one of the reasons it is beating airbus.
If American unionized workers would build a competitive product Boeing would buy it.
Pretty simple, really.
Held hostage? By what?
Better value?
You mean why shouldn't we send American dollars off to China so they can continue building their military and then come kick our asses? We're buying the rope that we will be hung with.
"why should we do that if other people can do it more efficiently?"
See what happens when we send our technology overseas:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/62138fe6-d575-11db-a5c6-000b5df10621.html
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